Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is no one there Gaza “Gaza has no hunger star policy, Gaza has no hunger star. You can enter Gaza during the war. Otherwise, there are no Gazaans.”
President Donald Trump said Monday that he disagreed with Netanyahu’s claim that there is no hunger in Gaza. Images of people appearing in weakened states: “These kids look very hungry.”
Israel over the weekend after international pressure Announced humanitarian suspensionairdrops and other measures aim to allow more assistance to Palestinians in Gaza. But the people there say that little or nothing has changed on the ground. The UN describes it as a measure of a week’s aid, and Israel has not said how long these latest measures will last.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the audience at a meeting held in Jerusalem on Sunday, July 27, 2025 (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
“This assistance provided in this way is a shame to the Palestinian people,” said Hasan al-Zaran.
Israel accuses extremists of sucking up aid in support of rules on the territory, claiming Hamas is the reason why aid has not reached the Palestinians in Gaza. The United Nations denied that aid looting is systematic and would be completely reduced or terminated when sufficient aid is permitted to enter Gaza.
Here’s what we know:
Somoud Wahdan looks at camera while sitting with a child in a Gaza Strip area on Friday, July 25th, 2025, while waiting for a humanitarian truck to arrive in Gaza City.
Death is on the rise
The World Health Organization said there were 63 on Sunday. Malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza This month, including 24 children under the age of 5 – the total for the past six months of the year increased from 11 deaths.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health has made this number even higher, reporting 82 deaths this month. Malnutrition-related causes are 24 children and 58 adults. On Monday, he said 14 deaths had been reported in the last 24 hours. The ministry, which operates under the Hamas government, is led by medical professionals and is considered by the United Nations as the most reliable source of data on victims. UN agencies often check figures through other partners on the ground.
Patient’s Friends Hospital, a major emergency centre for malnourished children in northern Gaza, says this month that the first malnourishing death was seen in a child without an existing condition. Some of the deceased adults suffered from diseases such as diabetes and worsened heart and kidney diseases, according to medical professionals in Gaza.
And who says acute malnutrition in northern Gaza has tripled this month, reaching nearly one in five children under the age of five, doubling it in central and southern Gaza. The United Nations says only four specialized treatment centres for malnutrition in Gaza are “overwhelming.”
The key international authority on the food crisis, an integrated food security stage class, has been warning of hunger in Gaza for months, but has not formally declared it, citing data shortages as Israel restricts access to its territory.
Causing the Death Palestinians carry the bodies of a man who was attacked by a truck on Saturday, July 26, 2025, when they were about to reach a humanitarian convoy that had entered Gaza city from the Gaza Strip.
Aid trucks flock to hungry people
The measures announced late Saturday include a 10-hour humanitarian moratorium on combat in three densely populated areas, making it easier for UN trucks to distribute food.
Still, Un World Food Program spokesman Martin Penner said 55 trucks of aid that entered Gaza on Monday through the intersection of Jikim and Kelem Shalom were plundered by hungry people before reaching the WFP warehouse.
Experts say that another measure announced by Israel, airdrops, is inadequate for Gaza’s immeasurable needs and is not dangerous to people on earth. Israeli military says 48 food packages were dropped on Sunday and Monday.
Palestinians say they want to return to the UN-LED aid delivery system that was in place during the war rather than the Israeli-backed mechanism that began in May. Witnesses and health workers say Israeli forces have killed hundreds by trying to reach Palestinians to those food sales hubs or opening fires while they were busy while they were in aid trucks. Israeli forces say they fired warning shots to disband the threat.
The United Nations and partners say that The best way to bring food to Gaza is by truckand they repeatedly called for Israel to ease restrictions on their entry. The truck is equipped with approximately 19 tons of equipment.
Israeli forces say as of July 21, 95,435 aid trucks had entered Gaza since the war began. This averages 146 trucks per day, far below the UN’s 500-600 trucks per day.
Rates can be as low as half of that for several months at a time. Due to the imposed by Israel, nothing was entered for two and a half months from March. Complete lockdown of food, fuel and other supplies entering Gaza.
Palestinians are struggling to get donated meals in the community kitchen in Gaza city, northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, July 26th, 2025 (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Providing assistance is difficult and slow
The UN says it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide the aid permitted to Gaza.
Once aid comes in, it remains just inside the Gaza border, and the UN must obtain Israeli military permits to send the truck to pick it up. However, the UN says the military has denied or obstructed more than half of the truck’s campaign demands over the past three months.
If the United Nations succeeds in picking up aid, hungry crowds and armed gangs flock to the fleets and strip them of supplies. Hamaslan’s private police once provided safety along several routes, but stopped after Israel targeted them in airstrikes.
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Cairo Associated Press writer Sammy Magdi and Melanie Lidman of Kfar Saba in Israel contributed.
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