UNRWA says ceasefire ‘not enough’ as Israel denies aid convoys entry to Gaza

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said Sunday that its international staff and convoys are still being denied entry to Gaza, with food, hygiene kits, tents, and other supplies urgently needed.

Gaza health director: 289 dead from starvation, including 115 children

Munir al-Bursh, director of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, told Al Jazeera that famine has claimed the lives of 289 people, including 115 children.

UNRWA: Famine in Gaza City can be stopped if Israel allows aid in

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says it has warehouses full of food, medicines and hygiene supplies in Jordan and Egypt but is being blocked from bringing them into Gaza, the Guardian reported. 

Mercy Corps CEO: Gaza famine recognition 'horrifying, not surprising'

The chief executive officer of the US-based aid group, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, has called the UN announcement of a famine in Gaza City “absolutely horrifying, yet not surprising,” Al Jazeera reported on Friday.

UN declares famine in Gaza

The UN has officially declared a famine in Gaza after months of Israeli restrictions that cut off food and water supplies to more than two million people.

Gaza extermination: What is your last thought when you're starving to death?

On Sunday alone, at least 18 Palestinians died of hunger in Gaza, as Israel continues to enforce a systematic starvation policy on the territory’s two million residents.

By our staff writer

Israel has desperately resorted to war of starvation against Gaza

TEHRAN - Failing to defeat the Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip, Israel has resorted to starving Palestinians to an unprecedented level to make the combatants feel pity for the people and stop resisting.

By Jeremy Konyndyk

Biden’s greatest failure in Gaza

On October 13, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent a letter to the Israeli government. In it, they expressed profound concern about the impediments Israel has placed on the flow of aid to Gaza in the course of Israeli military operations.

By Shahrokh Saei

Israel starving Palestinians, Arab states lining their pockets

TEHRAN- Extreme hunger and severe malnutrition have become increasingly widespread in the Gaza Strip as Israel continues to impose restrictions on the entry of food and other essentials to the Palestinian territory against the backdrop of the genocidal war that it has launched on the coastal strip since October 7.

By Parviz Rashidi

Cruelty of starving

TEHRAN - All the laws of the war have been largely and unbelievably violated in the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

Aid groups: Famine should officially be declared in Gaza

More than 70 international organizations have demanded that all relevant official authorities and competent UN and international institutions officially declare famine in the Gaza Strip.

UN appeals for $2.8bn for Gaza, West Bank aid

The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for $2.8 billion in funding to assist more than three million people in Gaza and the West Bank until the end of the year, to help ease food shortages and prevent looming famine in Gaza.

Aid groups warn of looming famine in Sudan

A year of war between rival military factions in Sudan has pushed parts of the country to the brink of famine, and left 25 million people — about half the population — in need of humanitarian aid, according to aid agencies.

Famine is already occurring in northern Gaza: US official

Samantha Power, the director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), says that people in parts of northern Gaza have begun facing famine.

UN: One quarter of Gaza's people one step away from famine

At least 576,000 people in the Gaza Strip - one quarter of the population - are one step away from famine, a senior UN aid official told the Security Council on Tuesday, warning that widespread famine could be "almost inevitable" without action.

Save the Children: Israel is killing kids in “slow motion”

Children in Gaza are on the brink of starvation while food aid sits just across the border, Alexandra Saieh of Save the Children warned.