by Quds News Network
Jul 20, 2025
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Gaza is “on the brink of mass death” and facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, as Israel’s blockade continues for more than four months.
“We are on the brink of mass death due to the Israeli occupation’s closure of all border crossings for over 140 consecutive days, the prevention of humanitarian and relief aid, baby formula, and fuel from entering, the complete tightening of the blockade, the depletion of food and medicine, and the continuation of a deliberate starvation policy,” Gaza’s Government Media Office warned on Sunday.
It added, “The world watches silently as Gaza is slaughtered and exterminated through hunger and genocide.”
“We are witnessing the largest mass massacre in modern history.”
The Office said, “Gaza is heading toward an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe amid ongoing Israeli genocide through mass killing and starvation targeting more than 2.4 million people, including 1.1 million children, in the Gaza Strip.”
Starvation in Gaza has reached catastrophic and unprecedented levels, aid groups and officials have warned.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are “on the verge of catastrophic hunger,” with one in three people in the enclave going days without food.
Health officials in Gaza issued a stark warning lately: Hundreds of severely emaciated Palestinians are on the verge of death, their bodies too weak to resist any longer.
The Director of Al-Shifa Hospital said hospitals are dealing with hundreds suffering from severe hunger and malnutrition. “We don’t have enough beds or medicine,” he said. “We’re seeing symptoms like memory loss, exhaustion, and collapse from extreme hunger.”
He added: “We have 17,000 children suffering from severe malnutrition. This is a generation being starved to death.”
Currently, around 1.25 million people in Gaza are living under catastrophic hunger conditions, while 96% of the population is suffering from severe levels of food insecurity, including more than one million children, according to the Office.
UNRWA warned on Sunday, “The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in Gaza. Among them are 1 million children.”
On March 2, Israel announced the closure of Gaza’s main crossings, cutting off food, fuel, medical and humanitarian supplies, worsening a humanitarian crisis for 2.3 million Palestinians, according to reports by human rights organisations who have accused it of using starvation as a weapon of war against Palestinians.
An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report in May warned that almost a quarter of the civilian population would face catastrophic levels of food insecurity (IPC Phase Five) in the coming months.
After more than 80 days of total blockade, starvation, and growing international outrage, limited aid has allegedly been distributed by the GHF, a scandal-plagued organization backed by the US and Israel, created to bypass the UN’s established aid delivery infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
Mass killings of aid seekers near and at GHF aid sites have become a grim daily reality amid chaotic scenes, as desperate Palestinians are given only a narrow window to rush for food and are targeted by Israeli forces and American mercenaries. Palestinians in Gaza and the UN described these sites as “mass death traps” and “slaughterhouses”.
Since the GHF started its operations on May 27 in Gaza, over 900 aid seekers have been killed by Israeli forces and American mercenaries and over 6,000 others injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
The UN confirmed that Israel is still blocking food from reaching starving Palestinians with only a few trucks of aid having reached Gaza.
The markets are empty of all basic needs, including flour and vegetables. For the majority of people, such luxuries are unavailable except at unimaginable prices.
We remind our readers that publication of articles on our site does not mean that we agree with what is written. Our policy is to publish anything which we consider of interest, so as to assist our readers in forming their opinions. Sometimes we even publish articles with which we totally disagree, since we believe it is important for our readers to be informed on as wide a spectrum of views as possible.
