Middle East Gaza: We are dying slowly, save us !

[CharlieH]

 

‘We Are Dying Slowly’: Gaza Teeters on the Brink as Starvation Strikes

 

GAZA — Starvation, chaos, and despair — that’s the grim new normal in Gaza, where desperate families are crying out for help as famine tightens its deadly grip.

 

After months of warnings, UN-backed experts confirmed what Gazans have long known: the worst-case scenario is here. Famine isn’t looming — it’s landed.

 

“All my children have lost almost half their body weight,” said Jamil Mughari, 38, from Maghazi. His five-year-old daughter now weighs just 11kg. His son Mohammad is, in his words, “skin and bones.” Mughari himself has dropped from 85kg to just 55. “I feel dizzy on the street,” he said. “Sometimes I shiver, but I force myself to stay upright.”

 

This week, the horror deepened. The Palestinian death toll officially passed 60,000. But locals say the true figure — especially including those buried beneath Israeli airstrikes — is much higher. And now, hunger is becoming just as lethal as bombs and bullets.

 

On Tuesday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed the disaster: “The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.” They called for an immediate ceasefire to stop the “catastrophic human suffering.”

But for Gaza’s 2.2 million people, surviving hunger is now a daily fight. Aid is trickling in, but Israel’s tight restrictions have turned food into a black-market commodity — hoarded by the armed, sold at prices the poor can't touch.

 

“We go a week or more without flour,” said Mughari. “Sometimes all we eat is lentils — if we’re lucky. Sometimes we drink water just to feel full.”

 

He and his family have fled their home seven times since the war began — hunted by airstrikes, cornered by famine. “Soup kitchens are only in some camps,” he said. “And even then, people with weapons hijack the trucks and sell the food. The poor? We starve.”

There are only four distribution points open daily — and just for a few frantic minutes. Hungry crowds, chaos, and worse — Israeli fire has turned these food lines into battlegrounds. Many have died just trying to eat.

 

Mansoura Fadl al-Helou, a 58-year-old widow, is too weak to queue. Her only son wants to help, but she won’t let him risk it. “He might never come back,” she said. “The army shoots at the crowds. I’d rather go hungry than lose my son.”

 

Her sentiment is echoed across the Strip.

“I’ve had open-heart surgery. My kids are all under 12. We can’t even risk trying,” Mughari said. “I try to stay strong for them, but we’ve sent countless messages to the world. No one moves. We are dying slowly. Please — save us.”

 

In Deir al-Balah, Abu al-Abed watches his children waste away. “My 14-year-old daughter’s ribcage is visible. My sons and daughters are dizzy from hunger. If I’m this weak, how must they feel?”

With no income, no aid, and sky-high prices, families can’t survive. “Inflation is worse than in Europe,” he said. “Soup kitchens are gone. No one helps.”

 

He no longer believes in slogans from the West. “All that talk of human rights was a lie,” he said bitterly. “If we’d asked them to save animals, they would’ve done it. But we’re Palestinians — no one cares. Not the Arabs, not the Muslims, not the Christians. No one.”

The IPC report sparked a flicker of hope. But after months of silence, few expect action.

 

“We’ve been starving for ages,” said al-Helou. “Maybe this message will wake the world up. Maybe.”

And as for Britain’s pledge to recognise Palestine in September if no ceasefire is reached?

 

“I don’t see how that helps,” she said flatly. “What kind of state has no sovereignty, no right to defend itself? Recognition means nothing if it’s just symbolic. We want a real state — with rights, protection, and dignity.”

 

Until then, Gaza waits. Starving, pleading, and slowly dying — while the world watches.

 

 

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from  The Gaurdian 2025-08-02

 

 

[Gottfrid]

inexcusable

[bannork]

Italy to begin air drops of aid into Gaza, minister says

After France and Spain, Italy said Friday (August 1) it would begin air drops over Gaza, which UN-backed experts say is slipping into famine.

 

The first drops could come on August 9, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said. "I have given the green light to a mission involving Army and Air Force assets for the transport and airdrop of basic necessities to civilians in Gaza, who have been severely affected by the ongoing conflict," he added in a statement.

 

FRANCE 24's Seema Gupta tells us more

 

Italy to begin air drops of aid into Gaza, minister says | Watch

[bannork]

From Gulf News:

UAE's 60th airdrop delivers vital aid to Gaza amid ongoing crisis

 

Gaza: The United Arab Emirates continues its dedicated humanitarian efforts to support the brotherly Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Today, the UAE carried out the 60th airdrop of humanitarian aid as part of the “Operation Birds of Goodness'', which falls under the larger “Operation Chivalrous Knight 3”. This operation was conducted in cooperation with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and with the participation of France, Germany, and Italy.

 

These airdrop missions aim to deliver critical relief to areas that are inaccessible by land due to current field conditions. Each drop includes a variety of food items and urgent humanitarian supplies.

 

With today’s operation, the total amount of aid airdropped has exceeded 3,807 tonnes, comprising various food and relief materials designated to assist Palestinians in the most severely affected areas.

 

UAE's 60th airdrop delivers vital aid to Gaza amid ongoing crisis

[seajae]

have to wonder why the UN is not delivering all the food that has already passed Israel  inspections and waiting to be distributed, also why hamas is stealing it and making the people pay for it, the only ones getting food are hamas families. Lots of on the ground independant news services showing over 100 truck loads of food rotting because the un is refusing to deliver it plus hamas is taking whatever they want. Seems to me Israel is being set up as the scape goats as way too many independant reporters are showing the food is already there for these people, there are also independant news services showing that some of the videos showing supposedly malnurished/dead kids are also false/fake but what else can we expect from hamas and their alies

[proton]

Strange how in these suspiciously fake looking images the adults never look starving, only the kiddies

[Chris.C]

16 minutes ago, bannork said:

Italy to begin air drops of aid into Gaza, minister says

After France and Spain, Italy said Friday (August 1) it would begin air drops over Gaza, which UN-backed experts say is slipping into famine.

 

The first drops could come on August 9, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said. "I have given the green light to a mission involving Army and Air Force assets for the transport and airdrop of basic necessities to civilians in Gaza, who have been severely affected by the ongoing conflict," he added in a statement.

 

FRANCE 24's Seema Gupta tells us more

 

Italy to begin air drops of aid into Gaza, minister says | Watch

Not enough, they should be dropping bombs over Israel, until they stop starving these poor people. Israel must feed the people they are annexing.

[Chris.C]

3 minutes ago, proton said:

Strange how in these suspiciously fake looking images the adults never look starving, only the kiddies

What a pathetically sick sense of humor you have.

Surely it is a poor attempt at humor, if not, you are a moral monster.

Shame

Shame

Shame

 

[Chris.C]

16 minutes ago, seajae said:

have to wonder why the UN is not delivering all the food that has already passed Israel  inspections and waiting to be distributed, also why hamas is stealing it and making the people pay for it, the only ones getting food are hamas families. Lots of on the ground independant news services showing over 100 truck loads of food rotting because the un is refusing to deliver it plus hamas is taking whatever they want. Seems to me Israel is being set up as the scape goats as way too many independant reporters are showing the food is already there for these people, there are also independant news services showing that some of the videos showing supposedly malnurished/dead kids are also false/fake but what else can we expect from hamas and their alies

[Chris.C]

11 minutes ago, proton said:

Strange how in these suspiciously fake looking images the adults never look starving, only the kiddies

The sheer intellectual collapse you have to experience to be faced with 122 international aid organisations telling you the same thing... ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZANS... only to decide they are ALL lying & that actually Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial for fraud, is telling the truth.

 

https://x.com/NizMhani/status/1948361095842082928

[Chris.C]

Famine is not easily organized. It takes planning. It takes vision. It takes a complicit international media that constantly tells viewers not to believe their eyes. It takes a coalition of Western states that protect Israel politically while it meticulously assembles the building blocks of mass murder. It takes vetoes in the UN Security Council that ensure that murderous plans aren't disrupted. It takes talking heads in Western media who systematically dehumanize Palestinians. It takes New York Times headline writers who make readers believe that no one really knows who is committing genocide, who is bombing refugees, who is orchestrating the famine. Do we really know conclusively that it isn't the Martians? It takes Members of Congress who blame infants that were born 4 months ago for the events of October 7, 2023. It takes European leaders who are willing to sacrifice their own democracy and the human rights of their own people for the sake of Israel starving Palestinian babies to death. It takes an American Military Industrial Complex that can produce bombs as fast as Israel can kill toddlers. It takes cowardly University professors who value donors more than students and profit more than education. It takes American Presidents who put Israel before America.

 

https://x.com/tparsi/status/1948866241223164213

 

 

 

[Nick Carter icp]

17 minutes ago, Chris.C said:

The sheer intellectual collapse you have to experience to be faced with 122 international aid organisations telling you the same thing... ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZANS... only to decide they are ALL lying & that actually Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial for fraud, is telling the truth.

 

   Palestinians have been claiming to be on the brink of starvation for nearly two years now and still no ones starved to death 

[bannork]

44 minutes ago, seajae said:

have to wonder why the UN is not delivering all the food that has already passed Israel  inspections and waiting to be distributed, also why hamas is stealing it and making the people pay for it, the only ones getting food are hamas families. Lots of on the ground independant news services showing over 100 truck loads of food rotting because the un is refusing to deliver it plus hamas is taking whatever they want. Seems to me Israel is being set up as the scape goats as way too many independant reporters are showing the food is already there for these people, there are also independant news services showing that some of the videos showing supposedly malnurished/dead kids are also false/fake but what else can we expect from hamas and their alies

 

 

This article sheds some light on the obstacles to aid distribution. Here are a few extracts:

 

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-08-01/why-not-enough-food-is-reaching-people-in-gaza-even-after-israel-eased-its-blockade

 

Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA,  said the aid missions are “still facing constraints.”

 

Delays of military approval still mean trucks remain idle for long periods, and the military still restricts the routes that the trucks can take onto a single road, which makes it easy for people to know where the trucks are going, U.N officials say.

 

Antoine Renard, who directs the World Food Program’s operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, said Wednesday that it took nearly 12 hours to bring in 52 trucks on a six-mile route.

 

 

[Bannoi]

This is Israel's plan to steal Gaza If the Palestinians won't leave kill them, starving them is cheaper than bullets.

 

The big unanswered question is when the world can see what's happening why doesn't anyone stop Israel killing all these people.

 

There should be a accountability something along the lines of the Nuremburg Trials.

[Nick Carter icp]

12 minutes ago, bannork said:

 

Antoine Renard, who directs the World Food Program’s operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, said Wednesday that it took nearly 12 hours to bring in 52 trucks on a six-mile route.

 

 

 52 trucks going through on 12 hours . 

4 trucks an hour , 

1 truck passing through every 9 minutes . 

Extremely well done to all concerned as that is rather quick 

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, CharlieH said:

Adapted by ASEAN Now from  The Gaurdian

The irony!

[Liverpool Lou]

59 minutes ago, Chris.C said:

1 hour ago, proton said:

Strange how in these suspiciously fake looking images the adults never look starving, only the kiddies

What a pathetically sick sense of humor you have.

Surely it is a poor attempt at humor, if not, you are a moral monster.

Shame

Shame

Shame

His comment was factual and clearly was not meant as humour.  Hamas and those promulgating false information and fake pictures are the moral monsters.

[worldexpress]

Should have thought of that when they put Hamas in power and continue to support them. Had they chosen peace, they'd be in a vastly different situation about now.

[Yagoda]

Surrender and release the hostages