More than 360 people, including 130 children, died of hunger since the start of the genocidal war of Israel against Gaza.
Posted on September 2, 2025
A total of 185 people in Gaza died “due to malnutrition” in August, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, while 13 other people, including three children, have died in 24 hours since then, because the catastrophic effects of the famine induced by Israeli in the enclave gets worse.
The press release published on Tuesday said that more than 83 people, including 15 children, died since the integrated classification of the food security phase (IPC), a world hunger hunger system supported by the United Nations, said last month that certain parts of Gaza suffered a full -fledged famine.
The Ministry of Health also said that 43,000 children under the age of five suffered from malnutrition as well as more than 55,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women. Two-thirds of pregnant women have suffered from anemia, the highest rate in years, he added. Mothers and newborns are most at risk of malnutrition.
The total number of deaths linked to hunger in the besieged enclave is now 361, including 130 children, since the start of the genocidal war of Israel against Gaza on October 7, 2023.
Israel killed at least 63,633 people in Gaza and injured 160,914 during the war, according to the Ministry of Health.
The IPC said on August 22 that 514,000 people in the Gaza Strip, nearly a quarter of the enclosure population, know famine. He expected the number to reach 641,000 at the end of September.
The IPC made its declaration after more than 22 months of war, during which Israeli forces destroyed medical facilities, schools, infrastructure and bakeries; blocked the entrance to the aid in the besieged band; And targeted and killed the Palestinians looking for food aid.
This is the first time that the IPC has recorded famine outside of Africa, and the world group predicted that famine conditions have spread to Deir El-Balah in the center of Gaza and Khan Younis south by the end of this month.
After the IPC declaration, the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres described the famine “artificial disaster, a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself”.
Guterres said that Israel had “unequivocal obligations” under international law as occupying power to guarantee that food and medical supplies enter Gaza.
Humanitarian organizations have requested action. For his part, Israel rejected the conclusions, saying that there was no famine in Gaza despite the overwhelming evidence of the IPC.
At least 78 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since dawn on Tuesday, including 42 in Gaza City, at medical sources in Tel Aviv Tribune. Among the killed, 20 were aid seekers located in the center and southern Gaza.
Israeli attacks are mainly, but not only, now focused on Gaza City, the largest urban center in the territory, while the Israeli army relentlessly bombard and tries to force its residents to the southern part of the enclave.
“Civilians on the ground have the weight. There are still hundreds of thousands of families in Gaza City, “reported Tel Aviv Tribune Tareq Abu Azzoum at noon de Deir el-Balah. “They refuse to leave because they know that there are no safe spaces in the center and the south of Gaza and that they prefer to stay close to their communities and what remains of their houses.”
Once swarming and crowded with residential buildings, Gaza City houses a million Palestinians, almost half of the Gaza population, but it is now a landscape of rubble.
The best specialists in the world genocide have officially declared that the War of Israel against Gaza responds to the legal definition of genocide, marking a historic intervention of main experts in the field of international law.
The International Association of Genocide scholars, a body of academics of 500 members founded in 1994, adopted a resolution declaring on Monday that the policies and actions of Israel in Gaza fulfill the definition of the genocide stated during the 1948 UN Convention for the prevention and punishment of the crime of the genocide.
