How much aid has entered Gaza?

Gaza is present facing its fiercest fight: implicit hunger.

There’s nary nutrient to bargain adjacent if you could spend it, radical determination person told Al Jazeera.

The wide hunger has been imposed by the Israeli subject arsenic it restricted the introduction of assistance for months and enforced a nutrient organisation strategy wherever radical get changeable astir daily.

“It’s 1 of the astir … barbaric ways to kill,” Dr James Smith, an exigency doc who has volunteered doubly successful Gaza, told Al Jazeera. “Starvation is ever thing that is done by 1 idiosyncratic to another. It’s intended to beryllium protracted and to maximise suffering.”

On July 29, the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) issued its gravest warning yet: that “worst-case script of famine is presently playing retired successful the Gaza Strip”.

Mounting grounds shows a emergence successful hunger-related deaths. Famine thresholds for nutrient depletion person been reached successful astir of Gaza, and for acute malnutrition successful Gaza City.

According to the Health Ministry successful Gaza, truthful far, astatine slightest 180 radical person died of starvation, fractional of them children, underscoring the devastating toll of hunger connected Gaza’s young.

According to the IPC, much than 20,000 children person been admitted for attraction for acute malnutrition betwixt April and mid-July – much than 3,000 of them severely affected.

(Al Jazeera)

As it begins to starve aft being deprived of nutrient for days, the assemblage begins to interruption down its ain musculus and different tissues.

Metabolism slows, kidney relation is impaired and the immune strategy falters, reducing the body’s quality to heal.

Essential organs similar the bosom and lungs go little effective. Muscles shrink, and radical consciousness weak. Eventually, its macromolecule stores ravaged, the assemblage breaks down its tissues arsenic decease nears.

The assistance allowed into Gaza

Despite the suffering, Israel allowed conscionable 36 assistance trucks into Gaza connected Saturday, adjacent arsenic 22,000 loaded trucks stay astatine the crossings, waiting to enter, according to the Government Media Office successful Gaza.

Before October 2023, astir 500 assistance trucks entered Gaza regular – a fig that not been reached since.

In March, Israel wholly blocked each exits and aid, lone opening up for a tiny fraction of the needed assistance successful the past 2 months.

Once nutrient is offloaded astatine the borderline holding areas, agencies indispensable petition support for convoys to participate and administer successful Gaza.

But approvals are inconsistent. According to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), lone 76 retired of 138 convoy requests were approved betwixt July 19 and 25.

After approval, convoys often idle for hours, waiting up to 46 hours for last clearance to move, during which clip bare civilians stitchery on expected routes, hoping to intercept food.

Once connected the road, the travel is dilatory and unsafe – it tin instrumentality up to 12 hours to implicit a transportation owed to checkpoints, information threats, and rerouting.

Convoys and civilians alike look Israeli sniper fire, drone surveillance, and bombing. Only 60 drivers are approved to run wrong Gaza – acold excessively fewer to conscionable the need.

Trucks are attacked by radical who are hopeless for aid, creating a analyzable and often convulsive concern for the drivers and assistance seekers.

(Al Jazeera)

On May 27, the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) started working, with the program being that it would regenerate each UN operations successful Gaza.

However, it replaced a web of immoderate 400 organisation points operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), with 4 “mega-sites” successful heavy militarised zones conscionable adjacent to unfastened combat zones.

Civilians who locomotion agelong distances, walk nights successful the open, and tally a gauntlet of random shooting, find themselves warring for scraps of food, if they’re lucky.

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Vulnerable groups – children, the elderly, the injured, and large women – are besides forced to marque the treacherous GHF journey.

A erstwhile GHF guard, US seasoned Anthony Aguilar, has told Al Jazeera however a small lad who helium gave assistance to was caught arsenic “pepper spray, teardrop gas, stun grenades and bullets” were changeable astatine the feet of the assemblage of assistance seekers, sidesplitting the boy.

Israeli soldiers person reportedly opened occurrence connected Palestinians gathering astatine GHF sites connected a near-daily basis.

As of August 5, astatine slightest 1,487 radical person been killed and 10,578 injured trying to cod assistance from the GHF.

Israel insists that the GHF is needed to forestall Hamas from stealing assistance entering Gaza.

However, interior investigation by the US Agency for International Development recovered nary grounds of wide assistance diversion by Hamas.

Israeli subject officials likewise told The New York Times past week that they had nary grounds that Hamas was systemically stealing aid.

(Al Jazeera)

Airdrops

Since the announcement of tactical pauses, countries similar France, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates person tried airdropping assistance into Gaza. Much of it falls into unsafe oregon inaccessible areas and, successful immoderate tragic cases, radical person been injured oregon killed trying to retrieve it.

In immoderate cases, the assistance falls into the oversea and becomes damaged by the saltwater. In addition, respective videos posted by radical successful Gaza amusement airdropped assistance that has been contaminated by mould.

UN agencies accidental airdrops are unsafe arsenic good arsenic insufficient and that Israel indispensable let acold much assistance successful overland and let entree to Gaza to forestall its 2.2 cardinal radical from starving.

Palestinians killed and starved for implicit 660 days

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed astir 61,000 people, including astatine slightest 18,430 children, successful its warfare connected Gaza.

In February 2025, The Lancet aesculapian diary estimated the decease toll successful Gaza from October 2023 to June 2024 was 40 percent higher than figures provided by the Palestinian Health Ministry, citing the information that galore radical dice extracurricular hospitals and are ne'er registered.

(Al Jazeera)