The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is reaching unbearable levels. For the fourth consecutive month, the Israeli blockade has cut the territory off from food, water, and medicine, plunging the besieged enclave into a full-scale famine. Health officials warn the worst is yet to come.

Each day brings new scenes of devastation: skeletal children cry from hunger, hospitals are overwhelmed with starving patients, and parents are left helpless as basic food becomes unaffordable or simply disappears from the markets. The price of flour has soared beyond reach. Gaza’s health sector, collapsing under the weight of war and blockade, reports a surge in deaths caused by malnutrition and preventable illness. At least 70 children have died from hunger. Another 620 patients have succumbed to the total absence of medicine and nutrition.

“Hungry”, the word echoes in the streets and shelters, from the mouths of Gaza’s children, hoping someone, somewhere, might hear. The images coming from inside Gaza’s hospitals are unbearable: emaciated bodies lie motionless on metal beds, their lives slipping away in silence.

“The situation is catastrophic,” said Salah Abdel Ati, head of the International Commission to Support the Palestinian People. “This is not a humanitarian crisis. This is genocide. Hunger is being weaponised. Aid is being blocked. And those who try to help are being targeted.”

According to Abdel Ati, over 650,000 children under five are now at immediate risk of severe malnutrition. More than 90% of the Strip’s population is experiencing acute food insecurity. Since 2 March, no humanitarian aid has entered Gaza, Israel has sealed off every crossing, cutting 2.3 million people off from the outside world.

Gaza’s health system has collapsed. With no fuel, medicine, or food left, the hospitals have become places of slow, silent death. “Hundreds of people are dying with skeletal bodies. Their organs are shutting down. We are witnessing mass extermination,” warned the Ministry of Health.

Online, the hashtag #Gaza_Is_Starving is echoing across platforms. Palestinians and supporters worldwide are pleading for international action. “They are dying silently, not because of what they did, but because the world closed its ears,” wrote one user. Others shared footage of children fainting in the streets, mothers waiting in vain for food that never comes, and babies crying for milk that does not exist.

Bread has become a rare luxury. Infant formula is now a distant dream, no longer a daily need, but a symbol of a shattered right to life.

On Sunday, the Global Campaign to Stop the Genocide in Gaza called for mass global mobilisation under the banner: Unite for Gaza. Stop the Starvation. They called for immediate international pressure to open secure humanitarian corridors to deliver food, water, and medical aid.

“Israel is waging a war without fire or smoke, a war of starvation,” the campaign declared. “This is not just a crisis. It is systematic extermination.”

Meanwhile, Gaza’s Government Media Office appealed urgently for the opening of permanent, internationally supervised humanitarian corridors. It warned that unless food and medicine are allowed to enter immediately, the coming days will see a surge in deaths from hunger.

As children across Gaza fall asleep with empty stomachs, and wake weaker with each passing day, one truth remains impossible to ignore: Gaza is not merely starving. Gaza is being starved to death.