Doctors and humanitarian workers within Gaza report shadow and heartbreaking details of generalized malnutrition, particularly in children, since the hunger crisis continues to get worse in the midst of the Israel-Famas War.
The Ministry of Health of Gaza, led by Hamas, said Thursday that 27 people have starved in the last three days, which takes the total of 113 since the war began on October 7, 2023. Of the total deaths due to hunger, 81 have been children, according to the Ministry of Health.
Mercycorps, an aid organization that provides humanitarian services, as well as a direct line for psychosocial support in Gaza, said he received the testimony of parents fighting to provide food to their children.
“This is one: ‘Last night, I was thinking of killing my children because I cannot take care of them properly or raise them in good sense,'” the group to ABC News transmitted. “I can’t even provide food. I had to send them to neighboring tents to pray for a bread to feed. I really don’t know what to do. ‘
Abdulwhhab Abu Alamrain-Voluntario at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Center of Gaza and a worker from the medical data department in Ménsins Frontières (MSF), or doctors without borders, say that there are only four stabilization centers for the malnutrition of the GAZA and the admission capacity is severely limited due to the overroxation of the facilities.
The displaced Palestinian mother, Samah kill, holds her malnourished son Youssef, who suffers from cerebral palsy, in a school where they take refuge in the midst of a hunger crisis, in the city of Gaza, on July 24, 2025.
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He said that the emergency departments of the hospitals in Gaza have been overwhelmed by injuries since the war began. However, in the last two weeks, they have been overwhelmed by people, according to reports, wounds while trying to get help, along with people collaposing for hunger.
“A child came to our house as two days ago begging something to eat, a piece of bread,” Alamrain told ABC News. “We have none. We gave him our lunch, [a] Chickpea cup. … life feels dystopian recently. “
On Thursday, MSF said 25% of pregnant children and women breastfeeding in Gaza clinics are malnourished, and cases of severe malnutrition in children under 5 years have tripled in just two weeks.
Caroline Willemen, coordinator of the MSF project in the city of Gaza, saying That on July 19 and 20 at the Al-Helou hospital in northern Gaza, MSF medical teams could not provide food to women and children in pediatric and maternity halls and there was not enough babies formula for the 23 babies in the neonatal intensive care unit.
On July 20 and July 21 at the Nasser Hospital in Center of Gaza, 168 patients admitted to pediatric and maternity neighborhoods could not access food, he said.
In addition, Edouard Beigbede, regional director of UNICEF for the Middle East and North Africa, He said Thursday That for two weeks in July, 5,000 children were admitted to their clinics with acute malnutrition and, only in the city of Gaza, the number of children projected and detected with acute malnutrition is four times greater than what it was in February.
Dr. Zaher Sahloul, president of Medogobal, told ABC News that 19 children have recently been admitted to the clinics of the non -profit organization in Gaza that suffers severe acute malnutrition, which is a number that the organization has never seen.
Five of those children, between three months and 4.5 years, died in the last 72 hours, until Wednesday, Sahloul said.
“This is an emergency because up to 50% of children with severe acute malnutrition can die,” Sahloul told ABC News. “Without a dramatic increase in the amount of help, more children will die.”
The Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen, in the midst of a hunger crisis, in the city of Gaza, on July 23, 2025.
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Kate Phillips-Barasso, Vice President of Global Policy and Defense of Mercycorps, said that her team in the field in Gaza informs that many people go days at the same time without eating.
“Everyone spends their day in search of how they are going to feed,” he told ABC News. “They are losing hope. They wonder if they or their families will come to the other side.”
Mercycorps was one of the more than 100 help groups that issued a joint statement this week warning about “mass starvation” in Gaza.
“We feel that we are propiking that cliff where more people are going to die,” Phillips-Barasso continued. “We are already starting to listen to reports from more children dying. That comes, and when it is coming, it is really difficult to put that in reverse. It is reaching a point where they need food and therapeutic treatment, not only more food supplies. This will begin snow and it will be very difficult to give that again.”
Help organizations said their workers and medical staff are also struggling to obtain food.
MSF said his staff is treating patients for hunger while fighting to feed themselves and their families, since they register 25 new cases of malnutrition every day only in the city of Gaza.
Alamrain told ABC News that he lost 27 kilograms (59.5 pounds) since the war began in October 2023, and eight kilograms (17.6 pounds) in the last two months.
Recently, his family baked his last 0.5 kilograms (1 pound) of flour to make seven pieces of bread, he said. Although his family has money to spend, the markets have run out of food.
During the last week, Alamrain said it has consumed between 700 and 1,400 calories per day, despite the fact that its recommended number of calories per day is 2,500.
The Palestinians seeking help from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supported by the United States carry bags, near Rafah, in the Strip of Gaza del Sur, July 24, 2025.
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“These days are the worst of all war in terms of food insecurity. We are not hungry [because] We are poor. We are hungry because there is no food to buy, or if there is, it is like [a] Crazy price, “he said.” There is as a massive feeling of people’s dizziness due to hunger. “
The Israeli government has denied that it is limiting the amount of help that enters Gaza and has affirmed that Hamas steals help for civilians. Hamas has denied these statements.
An Israeli security officer said this week that 950 humanitarian aid trucks are waiting at the crosses, waiting for the collection and distribution of the United Nations agencies.
David Mencer, a government spokesman, told ABC News on Thursday that “there is no famine caused by Israel, but there is a scarcity made by the man who has designed.”
Similarly, on Thursday, the deputy spokesman of the State Department, Tommy Pigott, denied that Israel, or the United States by extension, is putting together humanitarian aid.
“This humanitarian conflict is at Hamas’ feet, which could end this conflict today by releasing the hostages and placing their arms,” he said.
