Gaza Hospitals Report 15 Starvation Deaths in 24 Hours, Hunger-relate…
Hospitals in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday that 15 people have died as a result of hunger and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, including four children. This brings the total number of people who have died from hunger and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war to 101, of which 80 are children.
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On Friday, officials at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital said that "hundreds of patients are arriving with severe hunger symptoms, including children and infants in critical condition."
Dr. Suhaib Al-Hams, director of the field hospital in the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, warned of an impending "wave of deaths" due to organ failure among displaced individuals.
"The cases reaching us are of people who collapsed in the streets from lack of nutrition. All of them need food even before medicine," he said.
Hundreds of people are reportedly suffering from exhaustion, severe malnutrition and memory loss, all of which are symptoms of prolonged starvation.
On Sunday, the Gaza Health Ministry said at least 67 Palestinians were killed while seeking humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip. The day prior, 32 Gazans were killed after Israeli forces opened fire near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation facility in Khan Yunis.
Eyewitnesses and local sources said Israeli troops surrounded the area, where thousands of Palestinians had assembled in an attempt to reach a food distribution center, and began firing live ammunition toward the crowd.
— Jack Khoury and Rawan Suleiman. Haaretz. 22 July 2025.
