Gaza is facing ‘extreme risk of famine’
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says the nutritional situation in Gaza is now “even more dire than in the past 19 months”, with essential food supplies having “run out in both markets and distribution centres”.
“The nutritional front, the population is facing once again at extreme risk of famine”, the PRCS said in its latest situation update.
“There is an inability to meet even the minimum daily needs of over a million displaced people,” it said.
The Red Crescent’s food stocks allocated for displaced people are now “completely depleted”, with “limited quantities of legumes” being “distributed to community kitchens to cover some of the basic needs of displaced individuals”.
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Monday
At least 3 killed as Israeli helicopters, jet fighters, artillery pound Gaza in predawn attacks
We reported earlier on an Israeli attack on a house in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. The death toll from that attack on the Hamdan family home has now risen to two, with several people wounded.
Attacks were also reported by local media in the early hours of this morning in several areas of Gaza, including:
- Israeli artillery and jet fighter strikes have hit the east of Gaza City.
- Israeli ground troops are also reported to have destroyed buildings in the east of Gaza City this morning.
- Artillery and heavy machine-gun fire from Israeli armoured vehicles has been reported in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis in the south of the Strip.
- At least one child was killed and others injured when a tent shelter for forcibly displaced people was targeted by Israeli aircraft in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis.
- Israeli attack helicopters fired on a residential apartment in the Hawuz area, west of Khan Younis, causing significant damage and a large fire.
Israel’s method of warfare in Gaza is ‘starvation’: Israeli rights group
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has accused Israel of “using starvation as a method of warfare” in Gaza.
In a post on social media accompanying video footage of hungry Palestinians trying desperately to get food at a charity kitchen, the rights group said that more than 2 million people in Gaza have been starved for about two months.
Half of those being starved by Israel are children, the prominent rights group said.
“Israel is using starvation as a war tactic,” it added.
Israel has been blocking the entry of food and humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, deliberately starving over two million people, including more than one million children.
Israel is using starvation as a method of warfare. pic.twitter.com/9lOvyGVPqF
— B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم (@btselem) May 5, 2025
Netanyahu following Joseph Stalin with the holodomor (Ukraine 1932-1933)
OCHA slams Israeli plan to take over aid system
The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has decried Israel’s plan to subvert the current aid system in Gaza and take over aid shipments.
“We do not accept a proposal and a plan that does not live up to the core fundamental humanitarian principles of impartiality, neutrality and independent delivery of aid,” OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke said in Geneva.
He said Israel’s proposed system is “designed to further control and restrict supplies, which is the opposite of what is needed”.
Israeli soldiers and private security guards stand by Egyptian trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies for Gaza at Karem Abu Salem crossing
