Israel ‘engineering massacres’ as more Palestinians starve to death in Gaza
MSF official says Palestinians have no choice but to risk their lives in ‘desperate search for food’.
Palestinians carry bags of flour that they obtained from aid trucks that entered Gaza through the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza, August 1, 2025 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
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, a humanitarian official has warned.
Caroline Willemen, Gaza project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, told Al Jazeera on Friday that food remains “critically scarce” in the besieged enclave despite the increased entry of aid in recent days.
“There is little indication that sufficient aid will arrive consistently,” Willemen said. “As a result, every day, people risk their lives in a desperate search for food.”
The Gaza Health Ministry said on Friday that three more people, including two children, died of hunger and malnutrition in the previous 24 hours.
That pushed the total number of starvation-related deaths to 162, including 92 children, since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023.
More than 80 Palestinians were also killed in Israeli strikes across the Strip on Friday, medical sources told Al Jazeera. Of those, 49 people were killed and more than 270 others were wounded while seeking aid, the sources said.
![Palestinians carry bags of flour that they obtained from aid trucks which entered Gaza through the Zikim crossing point, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 1, 2025. [Bashar Taleb/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/000_68JB2KE-1754080485.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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