Tuesday in Gaza: Starving Gazans, aid workers and journalists
On Tuesday in Gaza the IDF seems again to have refrained from major massacres at food distribution sites. However continued bombardment all over Gaza has caused heavy casualties. Reports are still increasing the numbers. Estimates go to more than 80.
Israel blockaded Gaza totally from March 2 and has allowed inadequate food in since May 19. The resultant famine is becoming lethal, and the various international agencies are protesting loudly. An AP story archive.is/KKhGy (which reports ‘at least’ 25 dead killed today) notes
“The U.N. World Food Program says… nearly 100,000 women and children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition…..
MedGlobal, a charity working in Gaza, said that five children as young as three months had died from starvation in the past three days. “This is a deliberate and human-made disaster,” said Joseph Belliveau, its executive director.”
A Reuters story archive.is/2WrJM (which reports 72 IDF victims today) has much famine detail:
…doctors say a wave of hunger that has loomed over the enclave for months is now finally crashing down…More than 800 people have been killed in recent weeks trying to reach food, mostly in mass shootings by Israeli soldiers…United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the situation… a “horror show”. The Norwegian Refugee Council, …said some of its own staff were starving. “There is nothing left,” its director Jan Egeland told Reuters. “Israel is not yielding. They just want to paralyse our work”
AFP stated today turkiyetoday.com/region/afp-warns-that-its-jo
“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, some of our journalists were killed…but there is no record of us ever having had to watch our colleagues starving to death,”
This evening the IDF responded ynetnews.com/article/bkmkzb68eg saying there is no famine and the pictures of starving children are from Yemen.
H/T AP: Palestinians carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy that reached Gaza City from the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
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