Gaza War: Who warns of fatal hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of a fatal hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip. “The 2.1 million people caught in the Gaza war zone are faced with bombs and balls with another killer: starvation,” said WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Geneva. “We experience an increase in deaths due to malnutrition every day.”

Since mid -July, the centers have been overcrowded, the children with acute malnutrition. They would not have enough special food to provide them with their makeshift. Since the beginning of the year, at least 21 children under the age of five have died by malnutrition. The WHO itself documented these cases. According to the World Food Program (WFP), a quarter of the population now lives “under hunger -like conditions”.

The six -year -old Adam wake up with hunger at night, says his mother Sama Abu Dawud. “I just want to give my children warm bread,” says the 29-year-old of the German press agency. Her 14-year-old brother died three months ago from the consequences of his hunger. Doctors had told the family that his organs had failed for malnutrition. The information from the Palestinian, who lives in Deir al-Balah in the center of the Gaza Strip, cannot be checked independently.

A man named Mohammed Dschudi says that since the beginning of the Gaza War after the Hamas massacre, he has lost around 30 kilograms in October 2023. He used to weigh 84 kilograms. The father of five children says that he is constantly dizzy. His six -year -old daughter gradually lose her hair because of the malnutrition. “We die quietly and quietly,” said the 37-year-old, whose statements cannot be checked independently either.

Many residents of the Gaza Strip tell that they lived from just one meal a day. Food in the markets are completely overpriced. There is hardly anything to buy there. People are therefore dependent on aid deliveries, of which there are far too few from their point of view.

Eyewitnesses report violence in the issue of relief goods

Residents also report violence and chaos when issuing aid packages. When help comes, the message spreads by word of mouth or on social media. Mohammed Salem says that many people then made their way: “It could be the only food you get during the week.” He reports how men once pushed in the crowd and a boy collapsed. “People just climbed over him.” Salem does not know what had become of the boy. Those who are weak or old go away in the fight for relief supplies, says the 41-year-old.

According to the UN Human Rights Office, more than 1,000 people have already died than they tried to get food. 766 were killed close to the controversial distribution centers of the Gaza Humanitrian Foundation (GHF), others near auxiliary convoys, which are often stormed by desperate, said spokesman Thameen al-Kheetan.

Many people in Gaza only eat once a day

The 28-year-old Hiba al-Chatib reports that a man recently rammed his elbow hard into her chest and then stolen a box with food. She says it was an aid package of the GHF. The drivers would simply throw the packages and then drive away, nobody was there to distribute them, says the young woman. Other residents from the Gaza Strip confirm these descriptions. On request, the foundation said that American and local helpers were on site every day to distribute help.

“Not even animals would be treated like this,” says Al-Catab. In the boxes there are rice, chickpeas, milk powder, oil and beans from the can. One package is enough for her six -person family for four days, says the young woman. Your family cooks and eat only once a day.

WFP: malnutrition increases rapidly

“People die every day due to a lack of humanitarian aid, and we watch this situation intensify from day to day,” said Ross Smith, director of emergency missions at the WFP, early in New York. “The malnutrition increases rapidly,” said the organization this week. “90,000 women and children urgently need medical treatment.”

Aid organizations: Stunning is war crimes

In a joint appeal, more than 100 international aid organizations called for access to people in need in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. At the gates of Gazas, in warehouses – and even in the Gaza Strip itself – tons of food, clean water, medical aid goods, accommodations and fuel were unused, since humanitarian organizations have no access to them and they cannot deliver, the organizations’ letter. “The starvation of civilians as a method of war is a war crime.”

Israel denies “famine”

The “Times of Israel” recently quoted a rank -high Israeli security officer, according to which the military had not found a “famine” in Gaza. According to the report, however, he said that measures needed to stabilize the humanitarian situation there.

There is hunger in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli government spokesman said on Wednesday. But Israel is not to blame for this. The Hamas attempts to prevent the distribution of relief goods to the population and capere auxiliary transporters and sell them to dealers at horrendous prices and pay their fighters from it.

Another problem is, according to the Israeli government spokesman, that the UN trucks, which are already in the Gaza Strip, do not pick up and bring them to people. The UN reject this. Rather, they rarely received permission to enter auxiliary transporters.

From mid-May to mid-July, more than 1,600 trucks with UN aid goods were approved and could have been distributed. That is not even 30 trucks a day. In order to cover the most basic needs, more than 600 to 650 per day are necessary, according to the UN Nothilfebüro (OCHA). An Israeli government spokesman said that between 19th and 22nd July more than 4,400 trucks had driven in the Gaza Strip with relief goods.

The health authority controlled by the Hamas reported in the Gaza Strip that in the past 24 hours ten people had died of the consequences of hunger. In total, 111 Palestinians have already died. The information cannot be checked independently.

The United Nations have fixed guidelines for explaining a famine. It is explained when at least two out of 10,000 people die due to lack of food if at least 20 percent of households have extreme lack of food and if at least 30 percent of children suffer from acute malnutrition. In the Gaza Strip, in view of the continuing Israeli attacks and the constant displacement of the population, the only difficult to check these criteria is difficult, according to the UN.

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv draw attention to hunger in Gaza

In Israel’s coastal metropolis Tel Aviv, thousands protested on Tuesday evening, according to the “Times of Israel” in a march through the city against the Gaza War. Demonstrators also showed photos of children from the Gaza Strip, who are said to have died of the consequences of hunger. The march participants also wore flour bags to draw attention to the need in the Gaza Strip.