humanitarian aid

Palestinian child suffering from skin infections and severe malnutrition receives treatment at Al-Nasser Hospital, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 12, 2026. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

Rats, raw sewage, skin diseases: Israel’s siege is ravaging Gaza’s displaced

As Israel continues to restrict aid, Gaza’s shattered health system is struggling to treat and contain illnesses spreading through overcrowded tent camps.

By Ahmed Dremly and Ibtisam Mahdi May 29, 2026

The first meeting of the National Gathering of Palestinian Tribes, Clans, and Families, May 16. (Mohamed Solaimane)

How clans are organizing to fill Gaza’s leadership void

Extended families across the Strip are holding elections to ensure they are accounted for by aid groups — and, for some, to consolidate political ambitions.

By Mohamed Solaimane May 26, 2026

Funeral for three Palestinians killed by Israeli forces west of Gaza City, at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, March 8, 2026. (Yousef Zaanoun/Activestills)

‘The war is between Israel and Iran. Why should people in Gaza pay the price?’

After closures of Gaza’s crossings drove up food costs and stalled medical evacuations, ongoing Israeli strikes raise fears of a renewed large-scale assault.

By Ahmed Dremly and Ibtisam Mahdi March 10, 2026

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Palestinians gather between destroyed houses to break their fast together during the holy month of Ramadan in the northern Gaza Strip, February 20, 2026. (Yousef Zaanoun/Activestills)

In Gaza, we’re still breaking our fast under the buzzing of drones

Palestinians across the Strip are struggling to revive the spirit of Ramadan amid the third holiday season since the start of Israel’s genocide.

By Ahmed Dremly February 25, 2026

Foreign and Israeli journalists stand on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip in the city of Sderot, southern Israel, October 19, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

The legal fight to open Gaza to foreign press has failed. It’s time to change course

As Israel’s Supreme Court continues enabling the government’s foreign media ban, Palestinian journalists are paying the price. Further legal efforts are futile.

By Amos Brison February 6, 2026

Assad Abdeen carries the body of his one-month-old son, Saeed, who died of cold exposure, in Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, December 18, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

‘Wet tent syndrome’ is killing Gaza’s infants

Israel’s restrictions on shelter and medicine have left displaced families helpless as newborns succumb to exposure and preventable disease.

By Michal Feldon January 26, 2026

World Food Programme (WFP) provides food parcels to displaced people in Gaza City, October 23, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Despite ceasefire, Israel’s siege allowing only a trickle of aid into Gaza

Palestinians report a dire lack of healthy food, medicine, and winter shelter, while a new ban on humanitarian groups will push the enclave to the brink.

By Ahmed Dremly January 22, 2026

Yasser Abu Shabab (Popular Forces/Facebook; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel’s Gaza proxy strategy is collapsing

The killing of gang leader Yasser Abu Shabab, a known felon and druglord, by one of his own men has exposed the bankruptcy of Israel’s vision for the Strip.

By Muhammad Shehada December 12, 2025

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

Collaborate or leave: Israel’s cruel ultimatum to humanitarian groups in Gaza

Under the guise of re-registration, Israel seeks to force all international NGOs to comply with the GHF model, turning aid into a vehicle for ethnic cleansing.

By Lee Mordechai and Liat Kozma September 24, 2025

Israelis protest against the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, on a highway bridge near Jerusalem, August 15, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

How Israelis turned atrocity denial into an art

As Gazans document mass killing and starvation in real time, the response of much of Israeli society is: “It’s all fake — and they deserve it.”

By Ron Dudai August 22, 2025

Palestinians rush to the site where parachuted aid packages land, in the Nuseirat area of the central Gaza Strip, August 8, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

With chaotic airdrops, Israel’s engineered starvation of Gaza enters new phase

Israel has only allowed a trickle of aid to enter the enclave, as Gazans describe risking their lives for a sack of flour or moldy bread.

By Ibtisam Mahdi and Ahmed Dremly August 15, 2025

Palestinians walk through the streets with bags of flour after humanitarian aid trucks arrived via the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing into southern Gaza, in Khan Yunis, July 24, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israel’s aid concessions merely offer Gazans survival on a leash

To deflect international outrage, Israel’s strategy is clear: maintain enough control to kill with impunity, and enough relief to look humane while doing it.

By Mohammed R. Mhawish July 28, 2025

Palestinians try to recive a hot meal prepared by volunteers, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 20, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

We are starving

My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid. Gaza's children are dying in front of our eyes, and we are powerless to help them.

By Ruwaida Amer July 21, 2025