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Death toll in Gaza Strip rises to 65,174 since October 7

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 - 01:23 GMT

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Friday that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 65,174 martyrs and 166,071 wounded since October 7, 2023.

Starvation kills 422 Gazans including 145 children as Israel intensifies Gaza City bombardment

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 - 10:24 GMT

A report published in August by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially confirmed famine in Gaza City, home to nearly half of the enclave’s 2.2 million people, and surrounding areas for the first time.

Israel kills 88 Gazans in attacks, starves 7 to death; Hamas spox fate unclear after strike

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 - 12:19 GMT

Israel kills dozens of Palestinians every day in Gaza and has started the “initial” stage of conquering Gaza City, home to hundreds of thousands of people, and reoccupy the entire enclave.

Gaza war starves 8 more Palestinians to death including 2 children as famine confirmed

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 - 05:47 GMT

Moreover, unrelenting Israeli strikes have killed a total of 62,622 people and injured 157,673 more, including 10,778 fatalities and 45,632 injuries since 18 March, when Israel shattered a ceasefire with Hamas and resumed the fighting.

UNRWA: Our warehouses in Egypt, Jordan are full; Israel must let us bring aid into Gaza

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 - 09:25 GMT

"Reverse the ongoing catastrophe - flood Gaza with a massive scale up of aid through the United Nations including UNRWA," the tweet read.

Germany halts arms exports to Israel over Gaza City takeover plan

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 - 12:22 GMT

The Israeli so-called security cabinet has approved a new five-point military strategy focused on seizing control of Gaza City, located in the north of the enclave.

Israel kills over 60,000 Palestinians in Gaza, starves 89 children to death

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 - 12:32 GMT

Gaza reported seven new deaths from malnutrition and starvation in the past 24 hours, raising the total to 154 fatalities, including 89 children.

88 killed, 6 starved to death in Gaza as Israel starts limited humanitarian pause

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 - 02:22 GMT

The Israeli forces said they are implementing “tactical pause” in areas where they are not operating, including Gaza City, Deir Al Balah and Al Mawasi areas.

Egypt denounces 'baseless' accusations of contributing to Gaza blockade

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 - 08:57 GMT

113 people have died of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza due to the Israeli besiege, including 81 children.

Starvation haunts Gaza as deaths from hunger rise to 113

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 - 10:40 GMT

The World Health Organization (WHO) has documented the death of 21 children under five-years-old in Gaza due to malnutrition, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.

WHO warns of strong possibility of imminent famine in areas of northern Gaza

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 - 12:19 GMT

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Saturday that the warning of global food security experts made about the possibility of a famine in the northern Gaza Strip is very worrying.

Containing escalation in region begins with ending Israeli massacre in Gaza: Aboul Gheit

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 11:40 GMT

Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit received Wednesday, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat, Major General Patrick Gochat, Head of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization mission, which is concerned with follow-up and field monitoring of the implementation of the armistice agreements between Israel and its neighbors.

Famine 'quite possibly' in some areas of north Gaza, US official says

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 - 12:36 GMT

Famine is quite possibly present in parts of the northern Gaza Strip, a senior US State Department official said on Friday, adding that an obstacle to getting more aid to Palestinians was a scarcity of trucks in the enclave under Israeli siege.

Egypt continues daily airdrops of humanitarian aid into northern Gaza Strip

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 - 12:58 GMT

The mission has been ongoing over the course of two days, March 13-14, 2024, in cooperation with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the number of countries participating in the international coalition.

WFP Executive Director warns: Famine is imminent in Northern Gaza if necessary aid volume not delivered

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 - 12:24 GMT

The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program, Cindy McCain, said on Monday that famine is imminent in northern Gaza if the volume of aid entering the Strip is not significantly increased.

25 children died of malnutrition in Gaza: Palestinian Health Ministry

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 - 03:04 GMT

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the death toll as a result of malnutrition in Gaza has risen to 25 among children, according to breaking news via Al-Qahera News TV Channel.

Famine, flooding or war are repercussions of Ethiopian Dam filling without deal

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 - 02:50 GMT

A number of Egyptian experts and former ministers gave insight on the issue.

UN warns of alarming rise of hunger in war-torn Yemen

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 - 01:33 GMT

The report, which covers only the southern parts of Yemen, forecasts that the number of people "facing high levels of acute food insecurity" will increase from two million in February-April this year to 3.2 million in July-December.

Book Review: Peter Singer’s ‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality’

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 - 02:53 GMT

The article asses Singer's argument, with the primary aspect being on the axiomatic-normative criterion that he establishes at the outset

War, famine and fear: Yemeni cinema fights back

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 - 11:17 GMT

War, famine and fear: Yemeni cinema fights back.

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