What's happening in Gaza

[Craig234]

 

[Pyrite]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/21/israel-gaza-city-occupation/

...Israel launched its war on Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, during which Palestinian militants killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostage. Since then, the Israeli military has leveled and occupied much of Gaza, killing more than 62,000 people there, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and has displaced nearly the entire population at least once....it includes figures that show the majority of the dead are women and children....

Tight Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, along with rising insecurity, are fueling a hunger crisis in the enclave, where health authorities say 271 people, including 112 children, have died of starvation and malnutrition during the war, most of them since mid-July....

 

[Pyrite]

Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Officially Hit by Famine, Global Group Says

At least half a million people in the enclave were facing the most severe conditions measured by U.N.-backed international experts: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.

www.nytimes.com

Gaza City and the surrounding territory are officially suffering from famine, a global group of experts announced on Friday, nearly two years into an unrelenting war in which Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip.

The group, which the United Nations and aid agencies rely on to monitor and classify global hunger crises, said that at least half a million people in Gaza Governorate were facing the most severe conditions it measures: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.

With rare exceptions, the rest of Gaza’s total population of two million people was also struggling with severe hunger, according to the group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, which is made up of experts who monitor world hunger.

For many of those people, the group said, conditions were likely to worsen, sending two additional governorates farther south — Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis — into an official famine by the end of September....

The group said in a report published on Friday that a combination of factors had tipped Gaza into famine: the intensifying conflict, stringent Israeli restrictions on aid, the collapse of health care, water and sanitation systems, the destruction of local agriculture and the growing number of times people had been forced to flee for new shelters....

 

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Gaza City and the surrounding territory are officially suffering from famine, a global group of experts announced on Friday, nearly two years into an unrelenting war in which Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip.

If the Palestinians are hungry then they should release the hostages.

And they should remember this hunger the next time they think about starting a war with Israel.

 

[Aristaeus]

If the Palestinians are hungry then they should release the hostages.

And they should remember this hunger the next time they think about starting a war with Israel.

Palestinians don't have the hostages, Hamas does.

 

[Serenity]

"The insidious normalisation of horror."

Australian emergency Doctor in Gaza, witnessing the shocking situation, first hand.

 

[Craig234]

Palestinians don't have the hostages, Hamas does.

Hamas has ab out 20 living hostages. The rogue state has perhaps 10,000 living hostages in torture prisons.