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Palestinians face ‘worst days’ in Gaza under Israel’s starvation policy
Enforced starvation, enforced dehydration, and hunger are gripping the Gaza Strip, with more people reported with malnutrition and a severe, acute shortage of food supplies and other basic necessities.
If you look at the number of people reported with war wounds, it’s now about the same as the number of people reported with malnutrition.
Many of these people have been diagnosed as malnourished. According to the World Health Organization, we are at Stage 5 of malnutrition – this is the final and most dangerous stage of malnutrition.
It means people are not going to recover from all the negative effects of starvation.
According to what we hear from health sources, people’s immune systems are falling apart. They’re unable to fight the many diseases that are spreading because their bodies are unable to fight.
‘Sociocidal war’: How Israel pushed Gaza to breaking point
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/24/how-israel-pushed-gaza-to-breaking-point-starving-alone-and-hunted
Derek Summerfield, a United Kingdom-based psychiatrist who has written on the effects of war and atrocity, says “Israeli policy has left Gaza uninhabitable”.
“It’s destroyed the idea of a society and every institution that might serve it, from universities to hospitals to mosques. It’s become a sociocidal war,” he told Al Jazeera, describing a conflict intended to destroy a society’s entire structures and sense of identity.
“People have been left with nothing, and are feeling they can’t go on.”
Hamas slams global community for being ‘silent witness’ to starvation in Gaza
The Palestinian group says “the continued crime of starvation in the Gaza Strip is a stain on the international community, which continues its shameful silence in the face of one of the most horrific crimes of our time”.
“The systematic and overt policy of starvation and thirst practiced by the government of the war criminal Netanyahu against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, which has intensified over the past five months, is a disgrace to the international community, which has been a silent witness to this horrific, brutal crime,” Hamas said in a statement published on Telegram.
“We call on the European Union, Britain, Canada, Australia, and other Western countries to translate their declared media positions into effective political and economic actions and measures, to review all forms of cooperation with the occupation, to stop supplying it with weapons with which it kills civilians and children around the clock, and to hold it accountable for using starvation as a tool of mass murder,” the group added.
It also called on the UN and the international community “to take practical and binding measures to compel the occupation to allow the immediate entry of aid, without conditions or control, in a manner that ensures the rescue of civilians from the threat of death by hunger and thirst”.
A Palestinian child holds a bowl with food received from a charity kitchen in Gaza City, July 24
