Gaza Faces Starvation Horror as 19 Die in 24 Hours Amid Escalating Israeli Blockade

By Amit Kumar

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels, with at least 19 Palestinians dying of
hunger on sunday, according to health authorities in the besieged territory. The ongoing Israeli siege,
now in its second year, has created a man-made famine, pushing Gaza’s population toward the brink
of mass starvation.

Health officials have warned that hundreds more, emaciated and weakened by prolonged hunger,
are facing imminent death unless urgent food assistance reaches them.

“Parents must choose between risking death to search for food or watching their children starve,”
said Al Jazeera correspondent Hind Khoudary, reporting from central Gaza. She shared the story of
one mother who survives by giving her children only water to stave off hunger.

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has called the situation “beyond desperate,” revealing that
90,000 women and children are in urgent need of treatment for acute malnutrition. “Nearly one in
three people in Gaza are not eating for days at a time,” the agency warned, calling for a massive and
immediate scale-up in aid.

Yet, despite global calls for action, Israeli forces continue to obstruct humanitarian deliveries. In the
last 24 hours, 115 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip, 92 of them shot while attempting to
collect food from aid trucks or crossings. In Rafah, Khan Younis, and northern Gaza, aid distribution
points have become sites of massacre.

The death toll from Israel’s military campaign now approaches 59,000, with women and children
making up the majority of victims. Thousands remain trapped under the rubble of destroyed homes

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories,
condemned the starvation as a deliberate war crime. “This is the new abyss of cruelty,” she wrote.
As Gaza’s people cry out for survival, the world’s silence grows heavier.