humanitarian aid

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 Kamal 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

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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 Kamal 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 Kamal Amer December 4, 2024

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike at a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 6, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel’s paradoxical crusade against UNRWA

Israeli officials are relying on UNRWA to prevent a polio epidemic — while the Knesset advances laws to expel the agency.

By Jonathan Adler October 10, 2024

Displaced Palestinians living in tents shelter in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 4, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

The daily battles to survive the Gaza genocide

Making tents out of aid parachutes, waiting days for a tin of beans, re-digging graves to bury more martyrs: here's what Palestinians have to overcome.

By Yousef Aljamal August 14, 2024

Palestinian children wait for a hot meal prepared by volunteers in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, April 4, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Children starving, parents helpless as famine consumes northern Gaza

With aid blocked and stores empty of basic goods, dozens of Palestinian children have been hospitalized with malnutrition and acute anemia.

By Ibrahim Mohammad June 18, 2024

Palestinians seen at the port of Gaza City, June 13, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

‘Armchair humanitarianism’: The problem with Gaza’s maritime aid corridor

While aid is desperately needed, critics warn the U.S.-led plan evades the fundamental cause of Gaza’s starvation: Israel’s total control of the Strip.

By Samer Badawi March 16, 2024

Palestinians walk amid the rubble of Shuja'iya, northern Gaza, February, 2024. (Mohammed Hajjar)

‘We scream, starve, and die alone’: Life in the ruins of Shuja’iya

Israel’s month-long invasion of the Gaza City neighborhood left behind a trail of devastation. Still under siege, its Palestinian residents are risking death to get their hands on a bag of flour.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha March 16, 2024

Palestinian gather as humanitarian aid arrives on Al-Rashid Street, northern Gaza Strip, February 28, 2024. (Omar El Qattaa)

Survivors of Gaza aid convoy massacre describe ‘indiscriminate’ Israeli fire

Palestinian eyewitnesses say troops shot directly at a starving crowd trying to get flour for their families, killing and wounding many in the mayhem.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha March 5, 2024

Palestinians wait for a hot meal prepared by volunteers in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘My children are crying from hunger. This is a war of starvation’

With insufficient aid and skyrocketing prices across Gaza, Palestinians in the overcrowded city of Rafah are struggling to feed their families.

By Ruwaida Kamal Amer January 31, 2024

Palestinians line up to buy bread at a bakery in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, January 4, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

‘It’s like living in a mortuary, waiting for someone to bury you’

With Israel isolating the northern Strip, displaced Palestinians in Gaza City are grappling with the immediate perils of starvation and disease.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha January 11, 2024