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SvennoJ on 22 July 2025
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AFP journalists at risk of starving to death

The AFP Journalists’ Association has warned that its journalists working in Gaza are at risk of dying due to hunger.

One of the 10 freelancers working for the French news agency posted a message on social media on July 19, saying: “I don’t have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work.”

AFP warned that most of its workers in the Strip do not have the physical capacity to do their job any longer, and the situation is worsening. “Their heartbreaking calls for help are now daily.”

Despite the journalists receiving a monthly salary, there is either nothing to buy or goods are only available at completely exorbitant prices, the association said. “We risk learning of their deaths at any moment, and this is unbearable for us.

“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die.”



Red Crescent says 118 aid seekers wounded, 1 killed

The Palestine Red Crescent Society says medical workers at al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City have treated 118 wounded Palestinians since the early hours of this morning, who were injured waiting for aid near Nabulsi Junction in the southwestern part of the city.

They said one person was killed.


Baby and child die from malnutrition in Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that a child from Khan Younis in the enclave’s south has died from malnutrition. They are also reporting that a 40-day-old baby has died in the north of the Gaza Strip, also from malnutrition.

Cases of starvation are rising in Gaza as Israel’s continued siege is worsening the hunger crisis, with health authorities announcing that at least 19 people died from malnutrition on Sunday alone.

The World Food Programme says that 90,000 women and children in Gaza are in urgent need of treatment for malnutrition.

Most patients admitted to hospitals in Gaza due to malnutrition

Israel’s blockade of Gaza has plunged the Strip into a severe malnutrition crisis, with children particularly vulnerable to starvation.

Umm Musab al Dibs cannot contain her emotion as she sits at the bedside of her severely malnourished 14-year-son in al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City. He now weighs less than 10kg (22 pounds). “He used to weigh 40kg and was the pillar of strength in our family, supporting me and his sisters,” she told Al Jazeera.

Al-Shifa – the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip – has seen a sharp increase in malnutrition cases lately, but it is struggling to treat patients because of the severe shortage of medical supplies.

“Most patients admitted to the hospital recently are not suffering from war injuries but from severe malnutrition,” Moataz Harar, head of the emergency department at the hospital, told Al Jazeera. “Even some of our medical workers have fainted from a lack of food. The situation is grave, but it’s not new. It’s just that the number is rising rapidly.”

Hussam, a severely malnourished infant, was brought to al-Shifa by his mother, who was desperate for help. Doctors described his condition as dire. “Because of the current situation, there is no formula, no food, nothing to drink. This is famine. I cannot meet my child’s needs,” she said. “We were admitted on Friday, and since then, my son has been surviving on IV fluids. He’s unable to walk.”


Palestinians jostle to receive food from a charity kitchen in Nuseirat on July 20


At least 15 people died from starvation in Gaza over the last 24 hours: Health Ministry

Hospitals in Gaza have recorded 15 deaths, including those of four children, in Gaza due to starvation and malnutrition over the past 24 hours amid Israel’s blockade on the Strip, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement.

That brings the total number of hunger-related deaths in the Strip to 101, including 80 children, since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023.