Mohammed Y. M. Al-yaqoubi / Anadolu / GettyFive-year-old Lana Salih Juha, who fled with her family from Gaza's Shuja'iyya neighborhood to the city center, suffers from severe malnutrition, seen on July 28, 2025. Her family is calling for urgent help to ensure she receives proper treatment and nutrition.
United Nations agencies are now warning that the hunger crisis in Gaza is evolving into a famine, with growing evidence of starvation and malnutrition. The estimated 2 million Palestinians in Gaza have limited access to aid, facing the threat of being shot by Israeli soldiers as they make their way to crowded food-distribution points. Israel claims to have allowed 5,000 aid trucks into Gaza over the past two months, but aid groups are saying that’s far less than what is needed. According to NPR, Gaza health authorities are now reporting that more than 130 people in Gaza have died from “famine and malnutrition” since the war began.
Majdi Fathi / NurPhoto / GettyPalestinians gather at a food-distribution point in Gaza City on July 20, 2025.
Mohammed Arafat / APTrucks carrying humanitarian aid line up to enter the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025.
Saeed M. M. T. Jaras / Anadolu / GettyPalestinians climb aboard a food-aid truck after walking for miles to receive flour distributed from several trucks that entered the area of Zikim, a kibbutz in southern Israel, on July 27, 2025.
Ramez Habboub / GocherImagery / Future Publishing / GettyPalestinians carry humanitarian aid distributed at the Zikim crossing, near the Al-Sudaniya area in northern Gaza, as they return to their families after the beginning of airdrop operations.
Ramez Habboub / ABACA / ReutersA boy carries a bag of flour that was distributed at the Zikim crossing on July 26, 2025.
Mahmoud Issa / Anadolu / GettyPalestinians carry large sacks of flour away from a distribution point in the Zikim area on July 27, 2025.
Hassan Jedi / Anadolu / GettyResidents of the Nuseirat refugee camp line up in front of water trucks every day to collect clean water to carry back to their tents in Gaza City, seen on July 20, 2025.
Abdalhkem Abu Riash / Anadolu / GettySacks of lentils are poured into cooking pots at a food-distribution station run by a charity organization in the Gaza Strip, seen on July 18, 2025.
Abdel Kareem Hana / APPalestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen, in Gaza City, on July 26, 2025.
Khames Alrefi / Anadolu / GettyA child is seen among a crowd waiting to get hot meals distributed by an aid organization in Gaza City on July 26, 2025.
Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP / GettyA displaced Palestinian girl takes a sip of lentil soup that she received at a food-distribution point in Gaza City on July 25, 2025.
Jehad Alshrafi / APHumanitarian aid is air-dropped over Gaza City to Palestinians on July 27, 2025.
Abdel Kareem Hana / APAid packages drop to the ground in the northern Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025.
Abdel Kareem Hana / APA Palestinian youth carries a sack of aid that landed in the Mediterranean Sea, off the shore of Zawaida, after being air-dropped over central Gaza on July 29, 2025.
Jehad Alshrafi / APPalestinians carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy that reached Gaza City from the northern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2025.
Jehad Alshrafi / APYazan Abu Ful, a malnourished 2-year-old child, sits at his family home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 23, 2025.
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