Middle East

Ethar Shalaby BBC News Arabic Family handout Abdullah Jendeia had been searching for food when he was killed A teenager who went looking for food, an eight-year-old girl living in a camp for displaced Palestinians, and a man who endured months of malnutrition are among those who have died in …

Hedaya al-Muta’wi’s 18-month-old son Mohammed suffers from malnutrition due to famine and weighs just 6kg. He suffers from fatigue and can no longer stand or sit up. She told the BBC “my husband was killed in the war and I don’t have a breadwinner, except God”. She said she works …

A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres. “I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians,” Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that in his …

Reuters International concern has risen this week with warnings that starvation has gripped Gaza Almost one in three people in the Gaza Strip are going for days without eating, the UN’s food aid programme has warned. “Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment,” the …

Emir Nader BBC News, Jerusalem BBC Mary Sheikh al-Eid’s family arrived at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis after learning she had been killed The food distribution was announced in advance, like many before it, in a post on social media carrying an illustration of smiling Palestinians receiving boxes of aid. …

The focus on air drops into Gaza is a “grotesque distraction” that will not reverse the territory’s deepening starvation crisis, aid agency leaders have warned. Israel’s military said early on Sunday that it had airdropped humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, after also announcing humanitarian corridors for UN aid convoys. …

Watch: Moment IDF soldiers board Freedom Flotilla ship bringing aid to Gaza. Pro-Palestinian group Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says Israeli troops have boarded a boat that was trying to bring food aid to the Gaza Strip by sea. It said the Handala vessel was intercepted in international waters. Video footage …

The BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen boarded a Jordanian military plane dropping humanitarian aid into Gaza. He was told by the Jordanians that Israel did not want our crew to film outside the plane’s windows while he was onboard. But from the window, Bowen said he could see nothing left …

Emir Nader BBC News, Jerusalem Reuters B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel presented the findings at a news conference in Jerusalem Two leading Israeli rights organisations have said Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza constitutes genocide against the Palestinian population. B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel released separate reports …

Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent, reporting from Istanbul Reuters Residents of Gaza have cautiously welcomed reports of a temporary humanitarian pause to allow aid into the besieged enclave, but many say the relief must be the beginning of a broader, lasting solution to the deepening crisis. Israel’s military said it will …

Jeremy Bowen International editor AFP Israel has responded to sustained and growing international condemnation that it is responsible for starvation in Gaza by announcing a series of measures the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said would “improve the humanitarian response”. It is allowing airdrops of aid, carrying out the first one …

Watch: Air drop aid seen arriving in northern Gaza The World Health Organization has warned malnutrition has reached “alarming levels” in Gaza with rates on a “dangerous trajectory”, as aid airdrops resumed in the Strip. Jordan said it had worked with the United Arab Emirates and dropped 25 tonnes of …

The focus on air drops into Gaza is a “grotesque distraction” that will not reverse the territory’s deepening starvation crisis, aid agency leaders have warned. Israel’s military said early on Sunday that it had airdropped humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, after also announcing humanitarian corridors for UN aid convoys. …

Watch: Moment IDF soldiers board Freedom Flotilla ship bringing aid to Gaza. Pro-Palestinian group Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says Israeli troops have boarded a boat that was trying to bring food aid to the Gaza Strip by sea. It said the Handala vessel was intercepted in international waters. Video footage …

Hedaya al-Muta’wi’s 18-month-old son Mohammed suffers from malnutrition due to famine and weighs just 6kg. He suffers from fatigue and can no longer stand or sit up. She told the BBC “my husband was killed in the war and I don’t have a breadwinner, except God”. She said she works …

Reuters Almost one in three people in Gaza are going days without eating, the UN’s food aid programme has warned. “Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment,” the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement to news agency AFP. Warnings of starvation in …

BBC News and three leading news agencies have expressed desperate concern for journalists in Gaza, who they say are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. Those reporting the conflict from Gaza now face starvation and “the same dire circumstances as those they are covering,” a joint statement from …

Emir Nader BBC News, Jerusalem BBC Mohammed al-Qedra said he was shot in the hand and leg while trying to get food at a GHF aid distribution centre “Hunger and the lack of everything makes us go there.” “We know that we might get injured or killed at any time, …

Aoife Walsh and Paulin Kola BBC News BBC The UN says the hunger crisis in Gaza ‘has never been so dire’ One in five children in Gaza City is malnourished and cases are increasing every day, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) says. In a statement issued on Thursday, Unrwa …

A photographer in Gaza has told the story of how he captured a series of harrowing photographs, showing an emaciated child. Ahmed al-Arini told BBC Newshour that he wanted to “show the rest of the world extreme hunger” that babies and children are experiencing in the Gaza Strip. Global food …