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]

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

[proton]

7 hours ago, Chris.C said:

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

 

 

 

 

If Hamas had not started the war and had surrendered instead of pointless resistance and inflicting pointless suffering nobody would be hungry. Their stated aim is the destruction of Israel, that's not going to happen and kiddie propaganda, which they have used from the start, is not going to help them either. They should surrender and release any hostages they have not killed. 

[Eric Loh]

24 minutes ago, proton said:

 

If Hamas had not started the war and had surrendered instead of pointless resistance and inflicting pointless suffering nobody would be hungry. Their stated aim is the destruction of Israel, that's not going to happen and kiddie propaganda, which they have used from the start, is not going to help them either. They should surrender and release any hostages they have not killed. 

Civilians and kids are not Hamas. Israel has ignored the legal framework for the protection of civilians in armed conflicts with their disproportionate attacks. 

 

[proton]

15 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Civilians and kids are not Hamas. Israel has ignored the legal framework for the protection of civilians in armed conflicts with their disproportionate attacks. 

 

 

They are being used by Hamas, for shields and for their obvious propaganda, sucked up by the useful idiots in the west. Hamas have no interest in anything other than continued war

 

'Hamas has firmly rejected a call from the Arab League to lay down its arms and surrender control of Gaza, reiterating that it will not disarm unless an independent Palestinian state is established with Jerusalem as its capital'

[Eric Loh]

6 minutes ago, proton said:

 

They are being used by Hamas, for shields and for their obvious propaganda, sucked up by the useful idiots in the west. Hamas have no interest in anything other than continued war

 

'Hamas has firmly rejected a call from the Arab League to lay down its arms and surrender control of Gaza, reiterating that it will not disarm unless an independent Palestinian state is established with Jerusalem as its capital'

Israel attack hospitals and aid centres. These are not protected under internal law during conflicts. Among dead are international humanitarian workers, journalists, medical personnel. Israel has exhausted their “shield” excuses.
 

The Arab proposal is well intended but the practicality of that happening is harder to achieve. Trust factors on both sides are long gone. Both sides must seat down and hammered down a peace agreement. 

[seajae]

1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

Israel attack hospitals and aid centres. These are not protected under internal law during conflicts. Among dead are international humanitarian workers, journalists, medical personnel. Israel has exhausted their “shield” excuses.
 

The Arab proposal is well intended but the practicality of that happening is harder to achieve. Trust factors on both sides are long gone. Both sides must seat down and hammered down a peace agreement. 

 It has been proven/shown that hamas have all their head quarters, weapons storage etc in tunnels under the hospitals, schools, public buildings etc, videos and pics have been released showing this fact, hamas are using them as sheilds which is why they are being attacked, suggest you start reading independant news and not just the BS being released by the left/hamas lovers, maybe pull your head out of your rear end and see the truth of it

[Patong2021]

On 8/2/2025 at 10:27 AM, Gottfrid said:

inexcusable

The photo is not of a "starving" child.

[Patong2021]

2 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Civilians and kids are not Hamas. Israel has ignored the legal framework for the protection of civilians in armed conflicts with their disproportionate attacks. 

 

 

Unfortunately, they are. Many of the "civilians"  are in fact  genuine combatants. They  engage in hostilities and are not in uniform. Others work in logistics, command and control, and in the Hamas network of operations. "Children" are used as combatants.  Surely, you will not deny the that Hamas used an extensive network of camps to train Gazans as young as 8 to use weapons. The  documentation is readily available. Hamas was very proud of its training camps and allowed them to be photographed.  Yes, there will be genuine non combatants who  will be injured and who will die. This is intentional on the part of  Hamas because they know that such casualties will upset people like you. If they could put10,000 starving children on show for the cause, they would. For now, they will use children with chronic diseases and of clans who are opposed to Hamas and who have been intentionally starved, for their propaganda photos. There is a reason why some of the  clan factions have taken up arms against Hamas and are guarding aid convoys against the Hamas backed looters.

[Bday Prang]

21 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

The photo is not of a "starving" child.

The "mother" looks fine to me

[Eric Loh]

24 minutes ago, seajae said:

 It has been proven/shown that hamas have all their head quarters, weapons storage etc in tunnels under the hospitals, schools, public buildings etc, videos and pics have been released showing this fact, hamas are using them as sheilds which is why they are being attacked, suggest you start reading independant news and not just the BS being released by the left/hamas lovers, maybe pull your head out of your rear end and see the truth of it

The justification for using the excuse of Hamas embedded in hospitals etc has long expired. What excuse does Israel has to kill 60,000 civilians and of which 18,500 children. This disproportionality in excessive killings is illegal and out of control. There is no war strategy but just destruction and genocide. Israel commanders are questioning the strategy of prolonging the war. This is Netanyahu’s war to prolong his political life. 

[seajae]

4 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

The justification for using the excuse of Hamas embedded in hospitals etc has long expired. What excuse does Israel has to kill 60,000 civilians and of which 18,500 children. This disproportionality in excessive killings is illegal and out of control. There is no war strategy but just destruction and genocide. Israel commanders are questioning the strategy of prolonging the war. This is Netanyahu’s war to prolong his political life. 

Mate try telling the truth

IDF Spox. Update From Hamas Tunnel Under European Hospital

https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tff/1/16/1f3a5.png Weapons, cash and ammunition: IDF Spokesperson BG Effie Defrin reveals what was found inside the tunnel beneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis.

More proof that Hamas leaders weren’t just hiding underground, they were running their terror network from beneath a hospital.

 

The hospital was used by Hamas as a command center and is believed to have held Israeli hostages

Suicide vests, RPGs, motorcycles used to kidnap Israelis to Gaza, diapers, chairs with rope to hold hostages, all in the basement of the Rantisi hospital in Gaza.

The hospital was used by Hamas as a command center and is believed to have held Israeli hostages.

Watch:

[Chris.C]

1 minute ago, seajae said:

Mate try telling the truth

IDF Spox. Update From Hamas Tunnel Under European Hospital

https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tff/1/16/1f3a5.png Weapons, cash and ammunition: IDF Spokesperson BG Effie Defrin reveals what was found inside the tunnel beneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis.

More proof that Hamas leaders weren’t just hiding underground, they were running their terror network from beneath a hospital.

 

The hospital was used by Hamas as a command center and is believed to have held Israeli hostages

Suicide vests, RPGs, motorcycles used to kidnap Israelis to Gaza, diapers, chairs with rope to hold hostages, all in the basement of the Rantisi hospital in Gaza.

The hospital was used by Hamas as a command center and is believed to have held Israeli hostages.

Watch:

 

2 minutes ago, seajae said:

Mate try telling the truth

IDF Spox. Update From Hamas Tunnel Under European Hospital

https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tff/1/16/1f3a5.png Weapons, cash and ammunition: IDF Spokesperson BG Effie Defrin reveals what was found inside the tunnel beneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis.

More proof that Hamas leaders weren’t just hiding underground, they were running their terror network from beneath a hospital.

 

The hospital was used by Hamas as a command center and is believed to have held Israeli hostages

Suicide vests, RPGs, motorcycles used to kidnap Israelis to Gaza, diapers, chairs with rope to hold hostages, all in the basement of the Rantisi hospital in Gaza.

The hospital was used by Hamas as a command center and is believed to have held Israeli hostages.

Watch:

Have you any idea the difference in fire power between the IDF and Hamas?

You deny starvation, do you say all these Aid Agencies are wrong? 
Simple yes or no.

 

[bannork]

 

The suffering in Gaza’s hospitals that US envoy Witkoff did not see

 

Every day the network of eight clinics and a hospital that Dr Mohammed Salha oversees in Gaza fills with thousands of people searching for something to sustain them. They clamour for powdered formulas or food supplements that they hope will keep them and their children alive – but medical staff are forced to tell them that supplies ran dry months ago.

 

“We used to deal with 250 cases like this a day before this famine, now it is more than 2,000,” Salha says by phone, his voice business-like but exhausted.

 

A small specialised department in the hospital to feed malnourished children, pregnant women and those breastfeeding is full. “We are completely out of nutritional supplements or milk. It's not a shortage, we simply don't have them in our hospital.”

 

The suffering in Gaza’s hospitals that US envoy Witkoff did not see