DaysofPal – The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip announced on Thursday that six people, including a child, have died of starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll from hunger to 404 since the start of the war, among them 141 children.
The ministry said that since Gaza was first placed under famine alert, 126 people, including 26 children, have perished from hunger. International organizations confirm that the situation has not improved since the United Nations officially declared a famine in the territory.
According to World Food Programme data, all 2.2 million people in Gaza, 100% of the population, are now facing critical levels of food insecurity. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has classified the crisis as “actual famine,” citing Israel’s closure of border crossings and sweeping restrictions on the entry of food and humanitarian aid.
The Government Media Office in Gaza accused Israel of imposing a “systematic policy of starvation,” saying the blockade has prevented the entry of hundreds of thousands of aid trucks, creating a humanitarian catastrophe threatening the lives of more than one million children on the brink of death.
Israeli forces have destroyed entire residential neighborhoods in Gaza City and Jabalia as they continue their offensive in northern Gaza, which the army refers to as “Gideon’s War 2.” Rights groups and humanitarian organizations have condemned the escalation, warning of mass displacement of the city’s nearly one million residents.
The humanitarian working group in the occupied Palestinian territories, comprising UN agencies and more than 200 international and local NGOs, expressed deep concern over the dangerous escalation of violence in Gaza City. In a statement, the group warned that approximately one million people now have no safe or viable options, noting that neither the north nor the south of the Gaza Strip offers a safe environment.
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