The deepening hunger crisis in Gaza has reached a critical tipping point, with aid workers and medical personnel warning that starvation-related deaths are now accelerating across the besieged territory.
According to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), nearly 100,000 women and children in Gaza require immediate treatment for acute malnutrition. The agency also reports that close to one-third of the population—over two million Palestinians—are going days without food.
Medical staff on the ground say the humanitarian system is overwhelmed, with many essential medicines and nutritional treatments no longer available. Health professionals confirm that starvation is now affecting not just children—typically the most vulnerable—but also adults, due to the ongoing Israeli blockade that has severely restricted access to food and aid since March.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also recorded a sharp increase in cases of both malnutrition and disease, with conditions worsening across the region.
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF) stated that a quarter of all young children, along with pregnant and breastfeeding women screened at their clinics last week, were found to be malnourished. The organisation attributed the crisis to what it described as Israel’s “deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war.”
