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SvennoJ on 17 March 2025
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Parents in Gaza struggling to feed their children again, UN says

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) is calling for the immediate flow of supplies into Gaza.

“Parents in Gaza are struggling to feed their children. Hospitals are running out of supplies – again,” OCHA wrote. “It is critical to open up Gaza immediately.”

One mother, identified as Reem, recounted her situation. “We’ve run out of food, water, diapers for kids and detergents,” she said. “What we have can barely suffice us for at most 2-3 days. What would happen to us then.”



Israel makes water and other resources increasingly more scarce in Gaza

The desalination plant in Gaza, which was powered by an Israeli electricity line, was cut in the past few days – that is how Israeli forces have reduced the amount of drinking water distributed to Palestinians.

The desalination plant was producing 17,000 cubic metres (17 million litres) of water. After the power cut, only 2,000 cubic metres (2 million litres) is being produced.

It is not only the water. It has been 16 days since any aid truck has entered Gaza. No health supplies, medicine, fuel or cooking gas have entered. This has forced people to queue up again for water, bakeries, food distribution points and community kitchens.

What is available in the market is very little, and prices are skyrocketing, with most people unable to purchase what is available. UN officials have been warning that the situation is catastrophic.

Hospitals, like the one I’m at right now, will also collapse if nothing is allowed in.


One million children in Gaza ‘struggling to survive’

UNICEF, the UN’s agency for children, has described the dire situation in Gaza amid the ongoing Israeli blockade on all aid.

It is “urgent” to allow at least some water and electricity to reach the enclave in order to save children’s lives, said UNICEF regional director Edouard Beigbeder from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.


Community kitchens forced to close due to Israeli blockade

Charities that have been feeding thousands of people are being forced to close as Israel’s complete blockade on Gaza continues. Those still able to operate are winding down services, as essentials like cooking gas, water and other items are no longer available.

“The markets are running out of products, and much of what little is available is now unaffordable,” said Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah.

“Community kitchens, once feeding thousands, are now fighting their own battle against time, scarcity, and worsening starvation.”

Mohammed Abu Hamza, owner of a local kitchen, said: “Community kitchens have been a lifeline for countless displaced families in Gaza, but with border crossings sealed, the humanitarian situation has worsened dramatically. There is no food, no gas, no wood — nothing left to keep these kitchens running, as hunger tightens its grip on Gaza.”



Nations must confront Israel’s ‘starvation policy’ in Gaza: Qatar

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has emphasised the need to help Palestinians in Gaza during a meeting with the UN’s reconstruction coordinator for the enclave, Sigrid Kaag.

Mohammed said the international community must “shoulder its responsibilities to address the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza and to firmly confront the starvation policy by the Israeli occupation in its brutal war against brotherly Palestinian people”, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said.