UNICEF warns just 40 percent of Gaza’s drinking water-production facilities are estimated to be functional. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Israel’s blockade of fuel entering Gaza is causing a “man-made drought,” according to a warning from the United Nations...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation For months, a worsening Israeli-made famine has gripped the Gaza Strip. Food is scarce, and prices for what is available have skyrocketed since October 2023. Beyond relentless bombing and killing, Israel has enforced a policy of starvation, sealing all border crossings and denying 2...
Yolande Knell Middle East correspondent BBC Aya al-Skafi’s daughter, Jenan, died aged four months after doctors could not find her the special formula she needed Amid a deadly war in Gaza, new lives begin. But newborn babies and those still in the womb are among the worst hit by the harsh conditions. With acute shortages...
Fergal Keane BBC News, Jerusalem Warning: Upsetting content There is no excitement as the camera passes. The children barely glance. What can surprise a child who lives among the dead, the dying, the waiting to die? Hunger has worn them down. They wait in queues for scant rations or for none at all. They have...
The BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at how world leaders are responding to Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Read full article at source...
The BBC’s Fergal Keane reports on the rise of malnutrition in Gaza’s children. Read full article at source...
Roughly 500,000 Palestinians are experiencing “catastrophic” hunger levels, the latest food insecurity report finds. The Gaza Strip is at a “critical risk” of famine, with the entire population projected to face crisis levels of hunger as a result of Israel’s total humanitarian aid blockade, UN-backed food researchers have found in their latest assessment. As of...
Fergal Keane BBC News, Jerusalem BBC Siwar’s mother, Najwa, is struggling to find the right kind of formula milk her baby needs to survive Sometimes in war it is the smallest sound that can make the loudest statement. In Gaza’s Nasser hospital, a five-month-old girl struggles to cry. Siwar Ashour is hoarse. Her voice has...
Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Since March 2, Israel has blocked all food, medicine, fuel, and other relief from entering the besieged Gaza Strip, home to 2.1 million Palestinian people. “Israel is starving, killing and displacing Palestinians while also targeting and blocking humanitarian organizations trying to save their lives,” Ammar Hijazi,...
Yolande Knell Middle East correspondent BBC Anera’s community kitchens in Khan Younis feeds some 6,000 people each day A hot meal is hard to come by in the Gaza Strip, but a lunch for needy families in the south is about to be delivered by donkey and cart. Today’s dish is koshari – made with...
The UN World Food Programme says it has depleted all its food stocks in Gaza, where Israel has blocked deliveries of humanitarian aid for seven weeks. “Today, WFP delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens,” it warned. “These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days.” Israel...
Yolande Knell Middle East correspondent Reuters A woman stands outside one of the WFP-supported bakeries that were forced to close on Tuesday due to a lack of flour and fuel One month since Israel closed all crossings to Gaza for goods, all UN-supported bakeries have closed, markets are empty of most fresh vegetables and hospitals...
After a four-day mission to the West Bank and Gaza, a top official for the United Nations’ children’s welfare agency on Sunday described the effects that Israel’s blockade on all humanitarian aid into the latter territory has had on roughly 1 million children in recent weeks, and demanded that lifesaving essentials — currently “stalled just...