Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Gaza Media Office has released a grim report detailing the number of starved Palestinians killed and wounded while trying to collect food from US and…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- UNICEF spokesperson James Elder has warned that Palestinian families in Gaza are struggling to secure even a single meal a day for their children amid Israeli…
It only took 20 days. I didn’t have to sleep on the cold, wet ground, live in a tent; relieve my bowels and bladder in the open like everyone around…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Since limited humanitarian aid resumed on May 19, only 700 trucks of food and supplies have entered Gaza, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said. That…
Palestinian Territory – Israeli forces are employing a local armed gang involved in aid theft, along with foreign mercenaries from a US private security firm, to kill starving Palestinian civilians near…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli forces killed 20 starved civilians and injured dozens more on Tuesday at an alleged ‘aid distribution point’ near the Israeli-created ‘Netzarim corridor’, according to medical…
On March 2, Israel announced the closure of Gaza’s main crossings, cutting off food, medical and humanitarian supplies, worsening a humanitarian crisis for 2.3 million Palestinians, according to reports by…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli forces killed and injured dozens of starved Palestinians on Sunday near so-called ‘aid distribution centers’ in southern and central Gaza. The strikes targeted areas where…
Recent reports say that US AID is considering giving $500 million to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—an “aid” initiative launched at Israel’s request. At first glance, that might sound like…
The decision resonated as shocking for all sides. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose entire war strategy hinges on the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, unilaterally decided on May 19…
This article examines the systematic starvation inflicted upon Gaza's population following the events of October 2023. Beyond indiscriminate bombings and infrastructural devastation, Israel’s imposition of a “complete siege” amounts to…
Mass hunger continues to stalk Gaza as the United Nations warned on Friday that the besieged enclave is the “hungriest place on earth.” Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the UN’s…
What a nasty thing it has turned out to be. It involved subversion – Israel’s desire to ignore international tenets of humanitarian aid in favour of expediency and security –…
New York (Quds News Network)- Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, said Israel is preventing the organization from retrieving aid trucks intended for starving people in the Gaza…
Your ‘aid’ system will lead to chaos, as desperate, starving people fight for food. That’s great. They look like a swarming mass of the very ‘human animals’ you were talking…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The United Nations has stated that Israel continues to block aid from reaching starving Palestinains in Gaza, despite announcing on Sunday that it would allow limited…
Palestinian Territory – Deaths among the elderly, children, and the sick in the Gaza Strip have increased alarmingly due to starvation, malnutrition, and lack of medical treatment, under living conditions created…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israel has now targeted 68 food distribution centers and soup kitchens in Gaza since the start of its genocide, according to the Government Media Office. The…
Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid has entered its third month, pushed Gaza to the grip of starvation. Food supplies are dwindling rapidly, shops are stripped bare — even of the…
Palestinian Territory – A new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report has issued a grave warning: the entire population of the Gaza Strip faces the imminent threat of famine due to Israel’s ongoing, suffocating…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Gaza’s entire population continues to face a critical risk of famine, with half a million people facing starvation, according to a global hunger monitoring system, as…
United Nations aid officials have rejected a U.S. and Israel-backed plan for aid delivery in Gaza that reportedly involves the use of a private foundation and U.S. military security contractors to deliver far less…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- World Central Kitchen (WCK) has stopped cooking meals and baking bread in Gaza after running out of supplies. The group says Israeli border closures since early…
The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 57 people, the majority of whom were children, sick, and elder people, have died from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip since the start of…
London (Quds News Network)- Amnesty International has doubled down on its findings that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, stating that “two months of cruel and inhumane siege are further…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- With Israel’s blockade on food, medicine and other supplies now in its 60th day, people in Gaza are struggling to survive and are adopting coping strategies…
After seven weeks of a full blockade of food, water, medical supplies and electricity, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) warned that it had delivered its last remaining food…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Jonathan Whittall, head of the UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) in Gaza, has warned that the Palestinian enclave is on the brink of “full-scale famine conditions” as…
As Israel continues to bomb and impose a total blockade on the Gaza Strip, the United Nations World Food Program announced Friday that "WFP delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens" in the…
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Humanitarian agencies have sounded alarm over the worsening crisis in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has enforced a blockade on food, water, fuel, medical supplies, and…
On 16 November 2024, nearly 100 aid trucks delivering humanitarian assistance to people in Gaza were looted. By all accounts, the looting took place in murky circumstances. At short notice the Israeli…
Washington (Quds News Network)- A Biden administration official pressured the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) to soften its conclusion that famine was occurring in Gaza last December and…
An estimated 130,000 children under the age of 10 have been trapped in areas of northern Gaza almost entirely cut off from aid assistance, food and medical supplies for 50…
Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan hospital told Al Jazeera that Israel is blocking the entry of food, water, medical staff and materials destined for the north. He…
The US State Department determined Tuesday that Israel is not violating international human rights law by withholding food to Gaza, effectively endorsing Israel’s policy of deliberately seeking to exterminate the…
In recent months several consensual aspects of humanitarian aid have been violated in ways that are perhaps unprecedented. This has happened particularly in Gaza and Lebanon as Israeli forces have…
The Israeli government has reportedly cut off commercial food imports to the Gaza Strip, a move that was revealed Thursday as new data showed that the besieged enclave's entire population is facing emergency-level hunger…
An Oxfam report published Wednesday estimates that war-fueled hunger is likely killing as many as 21,000 people per day in dozens of countries as parties to global conflicts weaponize starvation…
Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has published a report accusing Israel of carrying out the “deliberate starvation” of the Palestinians in Gaza as a means of…
While the United Nations still has not formally declared a famine in Gaza after nine months of Israel's near-total blockade on humanitarian aid, 10 top U.N. experts on Tuesday said they have…
United Nations World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain said Friday that Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are experiencing "full-blown famine" after nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment and invasion—and that…
(Beirut, April 9, 2024) – Children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications since the Israeli government began using starvation as a weapon of war, a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Doctors…
The International Court of Justice issued a ruling Thursday ordering Israel to provide urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza’s desperate 2.3 million inhabitants. The ruling, which starkly declares that “famine…
Amid a systematic US-Israeli campaign to deliberately starve the 2.2 million residents of Gaza, the entire population is on the brink of famine. “Famine is ever closer to becoming a…
For five long months world hegemonic USA stood by it’s beloved Israel ‘fellow’ ‘democracy’ and with its veto prevented the UN Security Council from ordering Israel to stop annihilating its…
Israel’s withholding of food from the population of Gaza may be a deliberate effort to starve the population, the United Nations’ highest human rights official said Tuesday. In a statement,…
“Those who think we are delaying [the invasion of Rafah] will soon see that there is no place we cannot reach,” threatened Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on a visit…
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing March 6 on Global Food Security, a timely topic especially so with millions starving in Gaza. It was unknown if the two…
Despite massive global protests after last Thursday’s “flour massacre,” in which Israeli troops killed at least 115 people and wounded 760 more trying to get food aid, the genocide is…
A day of speculation about a ceasefire in Gaza sparked by US President Joe Biden has exposed the vicious cynicism of all involved. Biden told reporters, “My national security adviser…
As the Israel-Hamas war passed the 100-day mark this week, the Gaza Strip continues to be devastated amid the conflict, with women and children said to be the majority of casualties --…
Join Countercurrents Annual Fund Raising Campaign and help us
