GAZA CITY/GENEVA/CAIRO (Reuters) -The hunger crisis in Gaza is at a tipping point, with critically low supplies of fortified milk and special nutritious pastes exacerbating food shortages and pushing greater numbers of children into starvation, according to aid agencies, malnutrition experts and the United Nations.

 

After a global outcry at Israel severely restricting aid from March, its military began allowing more food into Gaza in late July.  But volumes are too small and distribution too chaotic to stop more people becoming malnourished, while those who are already starving or vulnerable are not getting life-saving supplements, three hunger experts and aid workers from six agencies told Reuters. 

 

 In just the first 20 days of August, there were 133 deaths, including 25 under 18s, the ministry said on Wednesday.  

  

Famine plays out in Gaza as children denied nourishing food supplements

 

1. Palestinian doctor Ahmed Basal examines a child for malnutrition at Al-Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City, August 7, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

 

2. Aisha Wahdan, mother of 8-month-old Hatem, who is being treated for malnutrition, feeds him milk at Al-Rantisi Hospital, amid severe shortages of infant formula, in Gaza City, August 7, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

 

3. Aisha Wahdan, mother of 8-month-old Hatem, who is being treated for malnutrition, feeds him milk at Al-Rantisi Hospital, amid severe shortages of infant formula, in Gaza City, August 7, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

 

 

The world's leading authority on food crises said on Friday the Gaza Strip's largest city is gripped by famine and that it is likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid.

 

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said famine is occurring in Gaza City, home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and that it could spread south to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.

 

The IPC determination comes after months of warnings by aid groups that Israel's restrictions of food and other aid into Gaza, and its military offensive, were causing high levels of starvation among Palestinian civilians, particularly children.

 

Famine confirmed in part of Gaza for first time, UN-backed body says

Hamas Propaganda at it's best. Taking the food away from there own people and then blaming Israel. And they allways find willing idiots to spead the lies.

 

Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally backed ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution, furthering its military and objectives in Gaza and furthering starvation, according to a newly published joint report by Forensic Architecture (FA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF).

 

The report by the research agency and charity respectively– published today at the same time as the UN-backed body, IPC confirmed Famine in Gaza – examines two models for aid distribution in Gaza, revealing how since 18 March 2025, Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally backed ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution, replacing it with a ‘military model’ which furthers Israel’s military and political objectives in Gaza while starving the region’s civilian population.

 

FA verified at least 64 incidents occurring between 18 March and 1 August of civilians being attacked by the Israeli military while seeking aid, including 25 incidents at and around Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. ration stations.

 

Israel has furthered starvation with ‘military model’ of aid distribution, according to new joint report – Israel-Gaza war latest updates

 

 

This propaganda is getting boring. 

3 minutes ago, TedG said:

This propaganda is getting boring. 

 

25 minutes ago, CHdiver said:

Hamas Propaganda at it's best. Taking the food away from there own people and then blaming Israel. And they allways find willing idiots to spead the lies.

So you’re claiming there’s no famine in Gaza? That’s not just ignorant, it’s obscene. The UN, the BBC, the World Food Programme, and over a hundred humanitarian organizations on the ground are all warning of catastrophic hunger and starvation – but somehow you think you know better from behind a keyboard.

When malnourished children are being treated in hospitals, when families are boiling grass to eat, and when aid trucks are being blocked or bombed, to deny famine is to deny reality. It’s the same playbook used by people who downplayed genocides and humanitarian disasters in the past – shut their eyes, plug their ears, and pretend nothing is happening.

Your denial doesn’t just make you wrong, it makes you complicit. To dismiss a famine in the face of overwhelming evidence is to dehumanize millions of people who are literally starving. History will remember who stood with the truth – and who chose to parrot propaganda while children wasted away.

1 minute ago, 7Chan7 said:

So you’re claiming there’s no famine in Gaza?

Yep...

8 minutes ago, TedG said:

9 minutes ago, 7Chan7 said:

So you’re claiming there’s no famine in Gaza?

Yep...

Why would you say yep? Serious sick mind on you pal.

12 minutes ago, TedG said:

Yep...

Move aside Oxfam, step down United Nations, pack it up World Food Programme, because Ted G, a 76-year-old retired truck driver from Ohio, who once ate a hotdog at a truck stop in New Jersey, actually knows more about the food situation in Gaza than all of you combined.

Why rely on hundreds of aid agencies, field workers, doctors, and journalists risking their lives to document starvation… when we have Ted, sitting in his bar in Pattaya, scrolling ASEAN Now, telling us there’s “plenty of food if people would just look harder”?

Truly, a historic day in humanitarian reporting. Expect the UN to dissolve any moment now and appoint Ted as the new global authority on famine. 

9 minutes ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

Why would you say yep? Serious sick mind on you pal.

Because the Palestinians spew so much propaganda.

9 minutes ago, 7Chan7 said:

Move aside Oxfam, step down United Nations, pack it up World Food Programme, because Ted G, a 76-year-old retired truck driver from Ohio, who once ate a hotdog at a truck stop in New Jersey, actually knows more about the food situation in Gaza than all of you combined.

Why rely on hundreds of aid agencies, field workers, doctors, and journalists risking their lives to document starvation… when we have Ted, sitting in his bar in Pattaya, scrolling ASEAN Now, telling us there’s “plenty of food if people would just look harder”?

Truly, a historic day in humanitarian reporting. Expect the UN to dissolve any moment now and appoint Ted as the new global authority on famine. 

I’m sure a fat ugly woman with a BMI of 50 knows what’s happening in Gaza. 

3 minutes ago, TedG said:

Because the Palestinians spew so much propaganda.

Please take your vile comments elsewhere.

 

I can only assume you are drunk.

 

 

Who would deny to name it genocide what happens in Gaza?

It's a eradication of Palestinians.

3 minutes ago, Chris.C said:

Please take your vile comments elsewhere.

 

I can only assume you are drunk.

 

 

They have been claiming famine for two years now. 

6 minutes ago, Chris.C said:

Please take your vile comments elsewhere.

 

I can only assume you are drunk.

 

Can I send a tissue? 

2 minutes ago, Chris.C said:

You’re making a <deleted> of yourself buddy. 

You seem triggered. 

Maybe the fat greedy, selfish parents should feed the kids first before stuffing it all in their fat piggy mouths.. atrocious parenting skills

A few dodgy pics does not a famine make

56 minutes ago, proton said:

A few dodgy pics does not a famine make

 

12 minutes ago, bannork said:

 

It's not a famine. 

1 hour ago, bannork said:

 

 

    Why doesn't he post videos of the famine ?

Numerous other videos coming out of Gaza .

Why no famine videos ?

Because there's no famine 

Here's why aid is not getting to the people in Gaza who need it:

UN Reports 88 Percent of Aid Trucks Slated for Delivery in Gaza Since May Looted Along Routes

Data from the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) showed that between May 19 and August 5, more than 2,600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed from Israel into Gaza. However, only 300 of these trucks reached their intended destinations in Gaza during that period, with some 2,309 trucks being “intercepted” and looted along their delivery routes — undermining the recent claim of Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, that “the vast majority of the aid gets to civilians.”

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/08/05/un-reports-88-percent-of-aid-trucks-slated-for-delivery-in-gaza-since-may-looted-along-routes/

 

The secret system Hamas uses to pay government salaries

An excerpt from the  BBC article:

Israel has accused Hamas of stealing aid that has entered Gaza during the ceasefire earlier this year, something Hamas denies. However BBC sources in Gaza have said that significant quantities of aid were taken by Hamas during this time.

Nisreen Khaled, a widow left caring for three children after her husband died of cancer five years ago, told the BBC: "When the hunger worsened, my children were crying not only from pain but also from watching our Hamas-affiliated neighbours receive food parcels and sacks of flour."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kz42j92jmo

12 minutes ago, Chris.C said:

Troll. 

You are a HAMAS troll.  

9 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

    Why doesn't he post videos of the famine ?

Numerous other videos coming out of Gaza .

Why no famine videos ?

Because there's no famine 

Suppose they had the photos; the world would be saturated with images of people dying. In fact, they would try to take photos that resembled the death camps of the 1940s. Hamas is full of propaganda.

 

HASMAS is full of the propaganda.  

Just now, Chris.C said:

You are a Jew troll.

I'm not a jew. 

2 minutes ago, Chris.C said:

you will defend Israel even if they drop an atom bomb, killing all Gaza’s.

 

Yes.

What Propaganda?

 

3 hours ago, CHdiver said:

Hamas Propaganda at it's best. Taking the food away from there own people and then blaming Israel. And they allways find willing idiots to spead the lies.

There ste always idiots denying the IDF's responsibilities while all NGO's are clearly stating the facts what is happening.

6 minutes ago, stevenl said:

There ste always idiots denying the IDF's responsibilities while all NGO's are clearly stating the facts what is happening.

 

   How can they be stating facts and at the same time as being asked to be let into Gaza ?

  They aren't in Gaza , so, where are they getting their facts from ?

Repeating  the lies from Hamas ?

11 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

Yes.

Do all the innocent women and kids mean nothing at all to you?
Truly bizarre the moral monsters denying what is fact.