humanitarian aid

Thousands of Palestinians walk along Al-Rashid Street carrying bags of flour after aid trucks entered through the Zikim area in northern Gaza city on June 17, 2025. Several of those seeking aid were shot by Israeli forces. (Yousef Zaanoun /Activestills)

‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Survivors describe stepping over corpses to get their hands on a bag of flour: ‘What choice do we have?’

By Ahmed Ahmed and Ibtisam Mahdi June 20, 2025

Armed and masked Palestinians secure trucks loaded with humanitarian aid entering Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing, on Salah al-Din Road east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Jan. 19, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

How Israel is engineering Gaza’s social collapse

By empowering criminal gangs and weaponizing aid provision, Netanyahu seeks to fracture the Strip into rival fiefdoms — allowing only chaos to reign.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha June 12, 2025

UK-flagged vessel Madleen enter the Ashdod port, after the Israeli army took control on the vessel overnight, in Ashdod, June 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Trolling the Madleen reveals the depths of the Israeli media’s delusion

After Israel seized the Gaza-bound flotilla and subjected its passengers to humiliating displays, the media and public framed it as a “PR win.”

By Oren Ziv June 11, 2025

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Twelve-year-old Rahaf Ayad holds a phone showing a picture of herself before the war, in her family's home in Gaza City, May 2, 2025. (Ahmed Ahmed)

‘She’s dying in front of my eyes’: The Gazan children starving under Israeli siege

With over 70,000 children hospitalized for malnutrition, Israel's blockade on the Strip has left parents to watch helplessly as their children waste away.

By Ahmed Ahmed and Ruwaida Amer May 8, 2025

An ADWAR employee cooks bread for displaced women as part of the “Resilience In Every Slice” initiative, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Dec. 8, 2024. (Courtesy of ADWAR)

With USAID shuttered, Palestine’s most vulnerable lose a lifeline

Trump's cuts came as a blow to NGOs like ADWAR, which provides aid and job training to Palestinian women across the West Bank and Gaza.

By Ella Halpern-Matthews April 30, 2025

Palestinians collect drinking water in Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip, April 10, 2025. (Ruwaida Amer)

Bombing plants, severing pipelines: Israel pushes Gaza water crisis to the brink

Since March, the army's intensified targeting of water infrastructure has left Gazans no choice but to drink seawater and ration contaminated supplies.

By Ibtisam Mahdi April 23, 2025

Wounded Palestinians crowd the floors of Nasser Hospital after the bombing of a residential area near a school sheltering a large number of displaced people, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, December 3, 2023. (Mohammed Zaanoun/Activestills)

In Gaza’s devastated hospitals, treatable patients face ‘slow, quiet death’

Bleeding out from moderate shrapnel wounds. Dying from illnesses doctors don’t have time to treat. Going blind waiting for medical evacuation abroad. These are the manifold victims of Israel's war on Gaza's health system.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha April 3, 2025

Palestinians line up to receive meals from the World Central Kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, March 16, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Weaponizing starvation, Israel seeks full control over Gaza aid distribution

The acute hunger crisis in the Strip is part of a deliberate Israeli strategy to cripple Hamas’ governance capabilities and banish humanitarian groups.

By Lee Mordechai and Liat Kozma March 26, 2025

Gazans light fireworks over the ruins of Khan Younis to celebrate Ramadan, with Israel’s blockade causing an ongoing electricity blackout, March 12, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

Fasting while starving, Gazans struggle to mark Ramadan

As Israel continues to prevent the entry of food into the Strip, Palestinians are gathering with surviving family members to observe the holiday in the rubble.

By Ruwaida Amer and Ibtisam Mahdi March 17, 2025

Displaced Palestinians return to their destroyed homes in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, Jan. 29, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

After returning north, Gazans struggle to envision any future

Over half a million Palestinians have crossed back into northern Gaza in recent weeks, only to face overwhelming destruction and little humanitarian aid.

By Ahmed Ahmed February 13, 2025

A patient at the European Hospital near Khan Younis after the Israeli army ordered an evacuation of the facility, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 2, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

The deadly cost of Israel’s restrictions on foreign doctors in Gaza

Denied entry or medical supplies after Israel's takeover of Rafah, volunteer physicians describe a policy designed to prevent their life-saving work.

By Patricia Martinez Sastre January 30, 2025

Yahya Al-Batran holds the body of his days-old son, who died from exposure in the family tent on the beach in Gaza, December 28, 2024. (Ruwaida Amer)

‘Every moment I fear losing another child’: Newborns freeze to death in Gaza tents

As displaced Palestinians endure a second winter in makeshift shelters, the death of at least six infants from exposure has sent parents into a panic.

By Ruwaida Amer January 9, 2025

Displaced Palestinians line up to receive a meal in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 29, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gazans face extreme hunger as ‘real famine’ spreads from north to south

Israel’s siege of the north and ‘benevolence’ toward gangs looting aid trucks has led to severe food shortages and skyrocketing prices across Gaza.

By Ruwaida Amer December 4, 2024