Mass starvation hits Gazans as deaths from hunger rise

Gaza: After four months of a near total Israeli siege, Gaza s few remaining hospitals now have wards for the growing number of malnourished children w...

Gaza: After four months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s few remaining hospitals now have wards for the growing number of malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones.

Doctors are famished to the point that they have dizzy spells as they make their rounds, medics say, and the journalists documenting their caseloads are often too weak to even walk to the clinics.

For months, aid agencies had warned of the coming crisis, as Israel halted the flow of aid to the Gaza Strip before attempting to replace U.N. relief efforts with distribution points inside military zones.

It was a move Israeli officials claimed was aimed at pressuring Hamas, whose fighters attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, and continue to hold about 50 hostages who were taken that day, about 20 of whom are still believed to be alive.