Nearly every child in Gaza is facing starvation

Date: 27th May 2025
Category: General measures of implementation, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

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More than 93% of children in Gaza, around 930,000 are now at serious risk of famine, according to Save the Children. New figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global authority on hunger, reveal a worsening food crisis in the region.

The ongoing war and a total blockade by Israeli authorities, which has stopped the entry of all aid, food, and medicine since 2^nd  March 2025, have pushed families to extreme lengths just to survive. Save the Children reports that some families in northern Gaza have been forced to eat animal feed, spoiled flour, and even flour mixed with sand.

With nearly all residents in Gaza relying on humanitarian aid, the blockade has led to a complete collapse in food supplies. Trucks full of food are stuck at the border, while aid organisations like the UN’s World Food Programme and local community kitchens have run out of food and had to shut down.

Save the Children is calling for urgent international action to lift the siege and allow vital supplies into Gaza, warning that without it, nearly one million children will face starvation, illness, and death.

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