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2025-08-30 18:55

By staff writer

Rising Gaza famine sparks calls for Europe to pressure Israel

TEHRAN – European governments are facing increasing pressure to act against Israel as civilian casualties mount and widespread starvation intensifies in Gaza amid the nearly two-year-long conflict in the Palestinian territory.

2025-08-27 18:23

By Wesam Bahrani

Starvation worsens in Gaza

TEHRAN – The Gaza Strip is caught not just in the flames of war, but in a deepening famine. UN experts insist this is no accident but a deliberate strategy.

Photo caption: Palestinians gather to receive cooked meals from a food distribution center in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on 18 August 2025. (AFP)

2025-08-26 17:02

More people starve to death in Gaza

The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Tuesday that three more adults died in Gaza over the past 24 hours “due to famine and malnutrition.”

2025-08-24 13:40

Gaza health director: 289 dead from starvation, including 115 children

Munir al-Bursh, director of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, told Al Jazeera that famine has claimed the lives of 289 people, including 115 children.

2025-08-22 17:49

Mercy Corps CEO: Gaza famine recognition 'horrifying, not surprising'

The chief executive officer of the US-based aid group, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, has called the UN announcement of a famine in Gaza City “absolutely horrifying, yet not surprising,” Al Jazeera reported on Friday.

2025-08-20 14:11

Israel kills dozens of Palestinians in Gaza

At least 35 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the enclave since Wednesday dawn, Al Jazeera reported, citing sources on the ground.

2025-08-19 13:31

UN rights office: Israel not letting in enough supplies into Gaza to avert widespread starvation

Israel is letting some supplies into the Gaza Strip but not enough to avert widespread starvation, said the United Nations human rights office on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

2025-08-18 18:55

By staff writer

Gaza genocide: Over 62,000 killed, 263 die of starvation under siege

TEHRAN — An increasing number of Palestinians are dying as a result of Israel’s blockade and relentless attacks on the Gaza Strip, even as international pressure grows to end the nearly two-year conflict.

2025-08-18 16:03

Amnesty International: Israel deliberately starving Gaza

Amnesty International has accused Israel of carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the Gaza Strip.

2025-08-16 19:16

By Muhammad Akmal Khan

Famine as a weapon: How Israel’s siege is starving Gaza into silence

ISLAMABAD - Gaza’s suffering has never been so extended, so intentional. Airstrikes take lives in moments; hunger erases them slowly, without sound. This is not the work of failed rains. It is the result of a calculated policy.

2025-08-10 16:30

Save the Children: 100 children starved to death in Gaza, a tragedy to shame the world

The reported deaths of 100 children due to starvation in Gaza since October 2023 is a devastating milestone that shames the world and demands long overdue urgent action, Save the Children said.

2025-08-06 19:50

By Shahrokh Saei

Relief or ruse: US-Israeli scheme masking military agendas in Gaza

TEHRAN — An alleged humanitarian aid initiative backed by the United States and Israel — the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) — is drawing sharp criticism from UN human rights experts, who say the program conceals military and political objectives beneath a false veneer of relief.

2025-08-06 13:50

Gaza starvation death toll nears 200 under Israeli siege

The Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Wednesday that five Palestinians died from famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours in the Gaza Strip.

2025-08-04 23:40

UN expert: Israel’s starvation of Gaza constitutes war crimes and genocide

The UN expert who first warned that Israel was orchestrating a campaign of deliberate mass starvation in Gaza more than 500 days ago, has said that governments and corporations cannot claim to be surprised at the horror now unfolding, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, told the Guardian.

2025-08-04 19:35

By staff writer

Global voices unite against Israel’s war and starvation campaign in Gaza

TEHRAN — Protests condemning Israel’s devastating war and deliberate starvation campaign in Gaza continue to sweep across the globe, as activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens demand an end to the violence and immediate humanitarian aid.

2025-08-02 14:09

‘Engineering massacres’: Humanitarian official condemns Israel’s role in Gaza starvation

A humanitarian official has warned that Israel is “engineering chaos and massacres” in the Gaza Strip by continuing to block aid deliveries and opening fire on starving Palestinians seeking desperately needed food supplies.

2025-07-29 20:28

By Shahrokh Saei

Trump acknowledges Gaza starvation as death toll tops 60,000

TEHRAN — Israel’s relentless slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza—including desperate civilians seeking food—exposes the sham of its so-called humanitarian claims. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration has shown a ruthless contempt for Palestinian lives, wielding starvation and indiscriminate violence as weapons of collective punishment.

2025-07-28 22:04

By Shahrokh Saei

Israel-based human rights groups: Gaza crisis is genocide, Western allies enable it

TEHRAN — The starvation crisis in Gaza, largely driven by Israeli actions, continues unabated as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration makes a symbolic gesture by allowing only a limited trickle of humanitarian aid into the besieged Palestinian territory.

2025-07-23 22:47

Aid groups blame Israel’s siege of Gaza for ‘mass starvation’

More than 100 aid agencies and rights groups, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, warned on Wednesday that “mass starvation” was spreading across Gaza, adding to growing calls for Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave, the New York Times reported.

A girl’s body is carried from a house destroyed by an Israeli strike in Gaza City [Khames Alrefi/Anadolu]

2025-07-23 22:41

By Shahrokh Saei

Western lip service won’t stop Israeli genocide in Gaza

TEHRAN — Western powers have launched a calculated charm offensive aimed at Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as global outrage intensifies over Israel’s ongoing military assault and enforced starvation of the besieged enclave.

2025-07-22 22:13

UN: Israel has killed over 1,000 seeking Gaza aid since late May

The UN on Tuesday said Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 Palestinians trying to get food aid in Gaza since the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started operations.

2025-07-22 21:54

By Shahrokh Saei

Starvation and slaughter: The only achievements of Israel’s war on Gaza

TEHRAN — More Palestinians have died from starvation in Gaza as Israel’s blockade of the besieged territory plunges it into an increasingly dire malnutrition crisis.

Handala Flotilla on its way to help Gaza children

2025-07-21 20:56

By Sahar Dadjoo

Handala embarks on lifesaving voyage to break Gaza siege

TEHRAN - With the continuous deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, the departure of the Handala flotilla has found its way into international efforts to feed starved populations and highlight the need for an emergency political decision.

2025-07-21 20:54

By Shahrokh Saei

Erasing Gaza via starvation

Flour costs $100 per kilo as Palestinians risk their lives for food aid

TEHRAN — Israel’s relentless military assault on Gaza continues to leave a trail of death, destruction, and starvation, as the international community remains largely passive in the face of what many now describe as a deliberate campaign of extermination.

2025-07-18 19:40

Hamas: Israel pursuing ‘policy of mass starvation’ in Gaza

Hamas has accused Israel of pursuing a “policy of mass starvation” against Palestinians in what it says is a “crime against humanity”, amid warnings from health officials in the territory about growing numbers of starving civilians seeking help, Al Jazeera reported.

2025-06-29 22:41

Israel kills nearly 600 Palestinians at aid centers

Since May 27, at least 583 Palestinians have been killed and 4,186 injured while waiting for food at aid distribution sites operated by the Israeli- and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), according to the Gaza Strip’s Ministry of Health.

2025-06-28 22:35

Gaza authorities say drugs found inside US-dispatched flour bags

Palestinian authorities in Gaza said Friday that narcotic pills had been found inside U.S.-dispatched flour bags in the Israeli-besieged enclave, Anadolu Agency reported.