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Gaza faces 'man-made' mass starvation due to Israeli aid blockade, World Health Organization says
The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said Gaza is suffering "man-made mass starvation" because of an Israeli blockade on aid to the enclave.
Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference that the population of Gaza is "facing yet another killer on top of bombs and bullets - starvation". The WHO said a "deadly surge" in malnutrition has caused the deaths of at least 21 children in 2025, but stressed this figure is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.
Centres for treating malnutrition are full of patients but do not have sufficient supplies for emergency feeding, it added. In July alone, 5,100 children have so far been admitted to malnutrition programmes, said Dr Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO's representative for the occupied Palestinian territories.
Some 800 of those children were severely emaciated, he said. Mr Ghebreyesus said: "I don't know what you would call it other than mass starvation, and it's man-made, and that's very clear." "This is because of [the] blockade," he continued, adding that 95% of households in Gaza are also facing severe water shortages.
He said the UN and its humanitarian partners were unable to deliver any food for nearly 80 days between March and May, while an aid blockade was in place, and that the resumption of deliveries has been insufficient. There is no famine in Gaza, says Israel An Israeli government spokesperson told Sky News the food shortages have "been engineered by Hamas.
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