Death toll from ‘famine and malnutrition rising rapidly’: Nasser Hospital

The number of people dying from hunger is increasing, according to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

In a post on Facebook, the hospital has said that in just 24 hours, 15 more people have died from starvation, bringing the total number to 101, including 80 children. “The toll of martyrs due to hunger and malnutrition is increasing rapidly,” the hospital said on Tuesday.

Dr Ambereen Salimi, an American doctor working inside the hospital, described the conditions in Gaza as “catastrophic”.  “Everything here is extremely cruel,” she said. “No food, no medicine, no shelter, no safety. Everything is lost under siege and a genocide war.”

‘New and astonishing levels of desperation’ in Gaza

Dozens of Palestinians lined up outside a charity kitchen in Gaza City, hoping for a bowl of watery tomato soup. The lucky ones had some chunks of eggplant floating in theirs.

As supplies ran out, people holding pots pushed to get to the front.

Nadia Mdoukh, a pregnant woman displaced from her home, who lives in a tent with her husband and three children, said she worries about being trampled. She also fears heatstroke as daytime temperatures hover above 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit).

“I do it for my children. This is famine – there is no bread or flour.”

The UN’s World Food Programme says Gaza’s hunger crisis has reached “new and astonishing levels of desperation”.

‘People in Gaza are starving to death’: UN

The United Nations has just issued a stark warning over the growing food crisis in Gaza, saying starvation is now a “horrific reality” for children and families trapped under Israeli siege.

“People in Gaza are starving to death,” the global body said in a social media post. It noted that its children’s agency, UNICEF, has warned that deadly malnutrition among children is reaching “catastrophic levels”.

“Humanitarian aid at scale is urgently needed. Safe, unrestricted access into Gaza must be granted to save lives,” the post said. “Aid at scale must be allowed in urgently,” the UN said, warning that the current restrictions are putting thousands of lives at risk.

Suspension of EU-Israel trade deal a ‘must’, says Albanese

UN special rapporteur in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, says it is “so late” to wait for Israel to increase aid to Gaza.

Albanese’s comments were in response to a post on X to the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, who said earlier today that “all options” were on the table on possible responses to Israel’s failure to deliver on its aid pledges and the killing of aid seekers.

But Albanese said sanctions were the only thing that could stop Israel.

“Suspending the EU agreement with Israel is a must. Anything less will be just performance, which the millions of Europeans who are grieving for the genocide in Gaza, would much prefer being spared from,” Albanese wrote.

It is so late, Ms Kallas.

Only sanctions can stop Israel.

Suspending the EU agreement with Israel is a must.

Anything less will be just performance, which the millions of Europeans who are grieving for the genodice in Gaza, would much prefer being spared from. https://t.co/nGoT5wXgip

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) July 22, 2025

‘Israel does not view Palestinians as humans’: Qatar

Israel’s “reckless behaviour” in its war on Gaza has endangered the Middle East, and it must be forced to follow international law to prevent regional conflagration, says Qatar.

“The Israeli government does not view Palestinians as human beings. Palestinians are being killed simply for standing in line to feed their families,” Foreign Ministry official Majed al-Ansari told a conference.

“Do not insult the intelligence of the world by saying that the situation between Palestine and Israel is complicated.”

If a way is not found to return to a “rules-based order”, there will not be an end to regional conflicts, said al-Ansari.

“The reckless behaviour of an occupying state – not only in its own neighbourhood but also in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran – has led to attacks on our borders for the first time in the Gulf,” he said, referring to Iran’s attack on a US military base in Qatar.

Scottish MP condemns UK over Israeli arms sales

Stephen Flynn, the leader of the Scottish National Party in Westminster, has sharply criticised the United Kingdom’s foreign minister for refusing to call Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide and for continuing to send the country weapons.

“We see him [the foreign secretary] refusing to describe what is happening as genocide, refusing to end all arms sales to Israel, and of course, continuing to refuse to recognise the State of Palestine,” Flynn said in Parliament.

He urged the UK to take action, pointing out that during the minister’s tenure, only two Palestinian children injured by Israeli forces were brought to the UK for medical treatment.

“Will this minister do what his boss refuses to do and commit to treating children bombed by Israel?” he asked.

The foreign minister replied that the UK had suspended arms sales “that could be used in Gaza” and said most exports were non-lethal. He added that he would discuss with the Home Secretary what more could be done for Palestinian children.

‘Permit humanitarian aid to reach the people’: Germany tells Israel

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on the Israeli government for an immediate end to the relentless bombing of Gaza and unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid.

“I want to repeat that here: the Israeli government must cease its intense military operations, allow for a ceasefire and, most importantly, permit humanitarian aid to reach the people,” said Merz.

“In Germany, I was among the first to clearly state that the conditions in Gaza had become unacceptable.”

More than 59,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023, according to the Health Ministry. The bombing and blockade has destroyed the enclave and led to deaths from starvation.

‘Nobody does a thing’ as Israel starves 2 million people in Gaza: Oxfam

Bushra Khalidi, policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory at UK charity Oxfam, has denounced governments around the world for failing to stop Israel’s starvation policy in war-battered Gaza.

She condemned the takeover of aid distribution by the Israel-US military contractor group GHF from UN-led agencies, which has “turned food into a deadly trap” in the Strip.

“This is not a humanitarian failure, this is a deliberate policy. There are massacres every single day and they don’t address any needs that Palestinians in Gaza need right now,” Khalidi told Al Jazeera.

The international community needs to act immediately to halt Israel’s war and ramp up the entry of vast amounts of humanitarian relief, she said.

“A civilian population of two million people are dying slowly before the world’s eyes and nobody does a thing … States and governments – stop waiting. There’s no time left. If you are a government that claims to follow human rights, you need to act now. We are begging you.”

US envoy heading to Middle East

Trump aide Steve Witkoff will be attending talks that aim to finalise a “corridor” for aid to war-ravaged Gaza, the US State Department says.

Witkoff, the administration’s special envoy, is travelling to the region with “a strong hope that we will come forward with another ceasefire as well as a humanitarian corridor for aid to flow, that both sides have in fact agreed to,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters during a news briefing.

Tel Aviv protesters call for end to Gaza war, return of captives


_{Demonstrators carry sacks of flour during a protest demanding an end to the war in Gaza and the release of all captives, in Tel Aviv, Israel}

_{Demonstrators hold signs highlighting the starvation in Gaza}

UNRWA chief says Israel blocking UN visas

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has accused Israel of systematically denying visas to humanitarian workers and blocking access to Gaza and the occupied West Bank – a move he said is “deepening the spread of disinformation” and “increasing dehumanization” of Palestinians.

In a post on X, Lazzarini wrote: “As if banning international media is not enough. Humanitarian workers are also banned when they report on atrocities committed in Gaza and elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory.”

He said Israel has increasingly denied or failed to renew visas for UN staff, including humanitarian coordinators and heads of agencies.

“All UNRWA international staff have not been granted visas for nearly six months now,” he said.

Lazzarini himself has been denied access to Gaza since March 2024, shortly after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to take action to address the famine in Gaza, and to the occupied West Bank since June.

Silencing voices.

As if banning international media is not enough.
Humanitarian workers are also banned when they report on atrocities committed in #Gaza & elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory.

The denial of a visa to our colleague from @ochaopt is the latest in a…

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) July 22, 2025

Main events on July 22nd

• Israeli attacks across Gaza killed at least 81 people, including 31 aid seekers, since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
• Journalists and rescuers in Gaza have gone on hunger strike to protest Israel’s starvation tactics.
• The number of people dying from hunger is steadily increasing, according to Nasser Hospital.
• Gaza is a “horror show with a level of death and destruction without parallel in recent times”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
• The Israeli army announced that a soldier was “severely injured” during clashes in central Gaza.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on the Israeli government for an immediate end to the relentless bombing of Gaza and unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid.
• Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said there is a possibility of a renewed military campaign against Iran.
• US President Donald Trump’s aide, Steve Witkoff, will attend ceasefire talks in Qatar that aim to finalise a “corridor” for aid into Gaza, the US State Department said.

'Lifelines collapsing' in Gaza as children starve in Israeli siege

"Malnourishment is soaring" and "starvation is knocking on every door" the UN secretary general has warned - describing the situation in Gaza as a “horror show”.

Israeli forces kill 7 Palestinians in attack on Gaza City

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have bombed a house in Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza City in the early hours of this morning, killing at least seven Palestinians and wounding several more.

The killings come as Israeli forces also attacked the Bureij camp in central Gaza.


_{The body of a girl is carried out from a house destroyed by an Israeli strike in Gaza City}

Several killed, wounded in Israeli attack on south Gaza

Nasser Hospital says a number of Palestinians have been wounded and killed in an Israeli drone attack on the town of Bani Suheila, east of the city of Khan Younis.

Israeli army withdraws from Deir el-Balah, leaving trail of destruction behind

The Israel army has withdrawn from the southern part of Deir el-Balah. The military operated in this area for 24 hours, destroying residential buildings and causing severe destruction of civilian infrastructure.

Civilians are worried about their safety, but they also have to think about how to get food.

Displacement of civilians and expansions of the Israeli army’s ground operations are adding layers and layers of complexity upon people battling for food. Many are unable to travel to the GHF because they are looking for a place where they can set up their makeshift tents and house their families.

We see on the ground how families are drained, traumatised and say the situation is no longer bearable.

Inside Al-Aqsa Hospital, we see hundreds of malnourished patients who have gone days without any kind of food. They are visibly emaciated. Health officials say that if aid does not reach the population immediately, we are expecting that many will pass away.

Two aid seekers killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza

Medical sources say Israeli forces have opened fire near an aid centre in the southern city of Rafah, killing at least two aid seekers and wounding 40.

The soldiers also carried out an air raid in central Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least one other person.

Israeli army says it is ‘intensifying operations’ in northern Gaza City

The Israeli army has issued a new statement about its military offensive in Gaza.

It said Israeli troops are “intensifying operations” in northern Gaza City and claimed killing a number of Hamas fighters in Jabalia, in northern Gaza. There was no immediate reaction by the Palestinian group.

The army also said it had attacked 120 “terror targets” in the past 24 hours, including dozens in southern Gaza. In its daily update yesterday, the Health Ministry in Gaza said more than 70 people were killed in Israeli attacks during the latest 24-hour reporting period, including five aid seekers.

More than 100 NGOs sound alarm over mass starvation in Gaza

The group, which includes Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Oxfam, say “mass starvation” is spreading across Gaza and that their colleagues in the enclave are wasting away from hunger.

“Doctors report record rates of acute malnutrition, especially among children and older people,” they said in a statement. “Illnesses like acute watery diarrhoea are spreading, markets are empty, waste is piling up, and adults are collapsing on the streets from hunger and dehydration.”

“Distributions in Gaza average just 28 trucks a day, far from enough for over two million people, many of whom have gone weeks without assistance,” they said. “The UN-led humanitarian system has not failed, it has been prevented from functioning.”

The NGOs said governments must stop waiting for permission to act.

“It is time to take decisive action: demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire; lift all bureaucratic and administrative restrictions; open all land crossings; ensure access to everyone in all of Gaza; reject military-controlled distribution models; restore a principled, UN-led humanitarian response and continue to fund principled and impartial humanitarian organisations,” they said. “States must pursue concrete measures to end the siege, such as halting the transfer of weapons and ammunition.”

“Piecemeal arrangements and symbolic gestures, like airdrops or flawed aid deals, serve as a smokescreen for inaction,” the statement said. “They cannot replace states’ legal and moral obligations to protect Palestinian civilians and ensure meaningful access at scale. States can and must save lives before there are none left to save.”


_{Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a 1.5-year-old child, faces life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade, in Gaza City, Gaza, on Monday.}

Gaza’s Civil Defence spokesman calls on ‘the world’ to join his hunger strike

Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defence, says his hunger strike has entered the third day and called on “the world to match the reality on the ground, take action and go on a hunger strike to show that Gaza is not alone”.

“The main reason that pushed me to go on a hunger strike is that I see children who cannot eat, I see men, women, patients who cannot feed themselves. The sick are unable to feed themselves,” he said, adding that more than 1,000 people have been killed while looking for food, and 85 children have starved to death.

“We are living a daily catastrophe … People are falling to the ground, they faint out of exhaustion, out of hunger, out of starvation,” Basal added.

AFP calls on Israel to allow evacuation of journalists from Gaza

Agence France-Presse has urged Israel to facilitate the immediate evacuation of its freelance journalists from Gaza, warning that they face an “appalling” and  “untenable” situation in the war-ravaged enclave.

AFP, one of the world’s largest news agencies, made the appeal after an association of its journalists warned that their colleagues in Gaza were facing starvation.

“For months, we have watched helplessly as their living conditions deteriorated dramatically,” the Paris-based agency said in a statement. “Their situation is now untenable, despite their exemplary courage, professional commitment, and resilience.”

Al Jazeera calls for global action to protect Gaza’s journalists

The Qatar-based network, which has correspondents on the ground in Gaza, is calling on the world to take “decisive action to halt the forced starvation and crimes” against journalists and media workers in Gaza.

In a statement, it said its journalists on the ground have risked their lives and the safety of their families to report on the ongoing genocide, and are now finding “themselves fighting for their own survival” as famine worsens in the coastal enclave.

“I haven’t stopped covering for a moment in 21 months, and today, I say it outright…and with indescribable pain. I am drowning in hunger, trembling in exhaustion, and resisting the fainting that follows me every moment,” said Anas al-Sharif, the network’s correspondent in Gaza City. “Gaza is dying. And we die with it.”

The network said the world must help put an end to the “unbearable suffering” that journalists in Gaza are enduring.

“The journalistic community and the world bear an immense responsibility; it is our duty to raise our voices and mobilise all available means to support our colleagues in this noble profession,” said Dr Mostefa Souag, director general of Al Jazeera Media Network. “If we fail to act now, we risk a future where there may be no one left to tell our stories. Our inaction will be recorded in history as a monumental failure to protect our fellow journalists and a betrayal of the principles that every journalist strives to uphold.”

Gaza medics, journalists continue working despite hunger

In Gaza, even those who are saving lives are starving. Raja al-Attar, an ambulance driver, is still responding to calls, still saving lives, despite being hungry himself.

”We continue our work despite the spreading famine and the severe shortage of food supplies. I haven’t had a single meal in the past two days, and I’m barely holding on,” he said. “My family is also struggling – they can’t access even the most basic necessities. We were forced to flee our home in Deir el-Balah because of the ongoing military operation. Right now, I’m sleeping at my workplace, because there’s nowhere else to go.”

Journalists, too, are battling to find loaves of bread to keep them on their feet to report on the worsening crisis.

“Working amid this famine is not just difficult; it’s a heavy burden we carry every day to keep reporting,” said Nour Swirki. “We already spend most of our time in the field, and now that work is made even harder by the constant search for food. In Gaza today, finding even one meal feels like a miracle.”