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Israel’s starvation policy leaves 122 dead in Gaza, mostly children

By Ted Regencia and Tim Hume

Published On 26 Jul 202526 Jul 2025

• Gaza’s Health Ministry said hospitals have recorded nine new deaths due to starvation and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, as the total number of starvation deaths in the territory rises to 122, including 83 children.
• At least 52 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn on Friday, Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent in the territory reports, and casualties continue to mount.
• A former US soldier who worked for the notorious GHF in Gaza tells BBC that he had “without question … witnessed war crimes” in the killing of civilians seeking food aid.
• Leaders of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom called on Israel to immediately lift its blockade on aid supplies entering the famished Palestinian territory.

12m ago

 (07:00 GMT)

Not ‘a single crumb’: Palestinians in Gaza City desperately search for food

Palestinians waiting for food at a charity kitchen in Gaza City have described the struggles they face to get enough to eat amid an ongoing Israeli blockade.

“Here’s my pot, it doesn’t even have a single crumb,” said one woman, Umm Abdullah, as she waited. “I have a two-year-old girl. I got back home with an empty pot to see my daughter screaming for having no food or bread.”

She said there were often squabbles at the charity kitchen as desperate people jostled for the limited supplies available. Previously, she said, “A pot spilled on me and I was burned so I left with nothing.”

Another woman, Riham Dwas, said: “Sometimes I get food and sometimes I don’t. My children eat if there is a charity kitchen running, but if there isn’t, then they don’t.”

Nearly 500,000 people are facing catastrophic hunger in Gaza, and at least 122 people have starved to death since Israel’s war began nearly 22 months ago, most since March when Israel imposed a total blockade.

Palestinians gather at a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza City [Dawoud Abu Alkas / Reuters]

1h ago

 (06:00 GMT)

Former US soldier alleges war crimes committed by Israeli army, US contractors in Gaza

A former US soldier who worked for the notorious Israeli- and US-backed GHF has told the BBC that he had “without question … witnessed war crimes” in the killing of civilians seeking food aid.

Anthony Aguilar told the BBC that he saw Israeli soldiers and US contractors use live ammunition, artillery, mortar rounds, and tank fire on civilians at food distribution sites.

“In my entire career, I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of the [Israeli army] and US contractors,” he was quoted by the BBC as saying.

Al Jazeera had previously reported similar incidents, quoting Palestinian witnesses who were among those seeking food aid from the GHF.

Palestinians transport a wounded man who was reportedly shot as he waited to receive food parcels at a GHF distribution point in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on July 12 [File: AFP]