Two children in Gaza have starved to death during a quickly deteriorating food crisis, while Israel’s blockade obstructs access to necessary commodities. As the UN and humanitarian organizations raise concerns about widespread malnutrition and exhaustion among both healthcare personnel and residents alike, the deaths arrive.
Local medical authorities claim that Israeli forces have killed at least 35 Palestinians in Gaza since Tuesday morning, eight of them seeking help. The assault came after the Israeli forces again entered eastern and southern Deir el-Balah.
According to UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini, fatigue and food shortage are causing health professionals in Gaza to now collapse at their job. With medical staff receiving just one simple meal per 24-hour shift, international volunteers at hospitals like Al Nasser in Khan Younis have reported horrific conditions.
“There is no protein, no vegetables, no fruit; it’s simply rice or lentils,” stated Canadian orthopedist Dr. Deirdre Nunan, volunteering in Gaza. “Some nurses are feeding their families with just a quarter of a pita each.”
According to the Gaza health ministry, the war on Gaza has taken more than 59,000 lives and wounded more than 142,000 as of mid-July. The war started following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which 1,139 people died and more than 200 others were abducted.
The foreign ministers of 25 nations and the EU’s foreign policy chief urged an immediate halt to the conflict in a statement released Tuesday, warning that the humanitarian death toll in Gaza had “reached new depths.”
Child displacement has hit unprecedented highs in the occupied West Bank. Save the Children says that Israeli demolitions led to the displacement of 607 children only in the first six months of 2025—the most for any half-year since records started. Over 1,200 people were displaced in all.
Over 2,850 children have been impacted by increasing demolition-related displacement on the West Bank since Israel started its campaign against Gaza.
According to UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), over 10,300 Palestinian youngsters have been displaced in the West Bank since 2009. Almost 80% of those cases concerned homes destroyed for not having Israeli-issued construction permits, permits rights organizations claim are practically impossible for Palestinians to get.
Save the Children characterized the present destruction policy as “systematic effort to annex sections of the West Bank,” echoing worries expressed by several legal and humanitarian groups.
