Since October 2023, Israel’s blockade and fire have had AA devastating famine and hunger in the Gaza. UN agencies report that women and children – 67% of the total victims – pay the highest price. Aid organizations now warn that the famine is on the brink of the edge. The Gaza food crisis had reached in mid -2025.The most critical levels’With already crossed famines. UN and NGO reports show that this is a man produced by humans: According to a UN expert, the Gazans suffer from “a humanitarian catastrophe epic”. The integrated classification of the nutritional safety phase (IPC), a globally recognized standard for the classification of the severity of nutritional uncertainty and acute malnutrition, confirmed that Gaza has achieved two of three worst famine notes, which was based on it Serving children were present everywhere in the territory. In practical terms, more than a third of the Gazans have for days without a meal, and an estimated 500,000 people (a quarter of the population) live under hunger conditions.
The need for children in the famine from Gazas
The children of Gaza suffer heavily. Unicef says that in Gaza the malnutrition among the children under the age of five is now catastrophic: for example, almost one of five children under the age of five in Gaza is acute. More than 320,000 children (Gaza’s entire under-5 population) is to carry out a risk of acute malnutrition.
Growth and deterioration of famine in the Gaza. (Photo: Omar al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty)
The medical documents show that the waste of and hunger -related diseases increases. Unicef reports that two of three hunger notes were violated and that 80% of all reported hunger affects children. The Gaza Ministry of Health said that the malnutrition has already claimed dozens of children: At the beginning of April 2024, 27 deaths were confirmed by children due to the hunger in Gaza hospitals and were confirmed in Gaza Strip, and were confirmed, and were confirmed and confirmed in the hospitals in Gaza strips and were confirmed in the hospitals in Gaza strips. Save the children He then reported 93 children from the beginning due to malnutrition (25 of them in July 2025).
Women, especially pregnant and breastfeeding women, are also severely affected. Save the Children says that in July 2025 43% of pregnant and breastfeeding women They were examined in the Gaza clinics that were clinically malnourished.
These statistics correspond to grim family statements. In July 2025 Reuters Gazan parents who went to “extreme lengths” to feed babies who are unable to digest firm food. The grandmother of a three-month-old was secured with chickpeas in pulp in order to shift a few calories to the child, which was aware of the fact that this could violate the baby. Aid agencies confirm that children’s milk powder is almost unreachable and many women are malnourished so as not to be able to lactate. In this vacuum, the parents said that they fed with herbs or legumes with babies cooked water – a practice that warned Unicef was not safe for infants and has the potential to lead to serious illnesses.
Effects on mothers and maternal health
‘Women, especially pregnant and breastfeeding women, are also severely affected. Save the Children says that in July 2025 43% of pregnant and breastfeeding women They were examined in the Gaza clinics that were clinically malnourished. This is almost the triple of the prevalence, which was recorded before the start of complete siege. This lack of pregnancy has serious effects: it leads to Anemia, bleeding or even death of the mother And can lead to stillbirths or low birth weight.
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A press release from Save the Children makes it clear that malnutrition in Gaza “a dead birth, a low birth weight, stunted growth and the development delays in children can cause”. Gazastell already has an estimated 50,000 pregnant women (approximately 180 births per day). Before the war, about 15% of pregnancies were complicated with Gazan women. Now these women essentially have Zero Access to obstetrical emergency care.
Anyone who warns that so many bound maternity units (14 hospitals and 45 clinics in Gaza were closed) and fuel shortages that hinder ventilation devices and incubators is expected to increase, and war stress already causes miscarriages and premature births.
Structural causes: blockade and violence
‘The gender -specific hunger emergency is based on political and structural reasons. The blockade of Israel has cut off important supplies: Since October 2023, no fuel has arrived in Gaza and has closed bakeries, water treatment plants and hospitals. The persistent air and soil writing has closed the number of facilities and infrastructures in the healthcare system and the introduction of values for health institutions and infrastructures. For example, the maternity hospital Al-Hilwani was bombed in November 2023.
2 year old child in Gaza, starve (Photo: AP)
A large-scale displacement leads to almost half of the population of Gaza (especially women and children), who pack in unnecessary accommodation with little water and food. Humanitarian convoys experience endemic delays and attacks and leave UN agencies only fuel and medicine. These cumulative attacks – blockade, siege, bombing – have destroyed the economy and local agriculture of Gaza. The livelihood was shaken: the farmers cannot plow a country, retailers cannot import or sell, and the majority of the Gazans have lost their livelihood. ‘
Gender -specific consequences and long -term prospects
‘These catastrophic damage in the Gaza could cause prospects for long -term destruction and serious consequences for women and children. Underneath Mothers -like health is of the greatest importance. More than 50,000 Gazan women are pregnant under siege. It is expected that the deaths of mothers are dramatically increasing, since women give birth under unskilled care and without equipment. Who has predicted an increase in stress -related miscarriages and dead birth. Nutrient deficiencies and infections in mothers will also reduce the health of fertility and increase the future danger of the mother.
Gaza’s hunger and hunger crisis is an Israeli artificially manufactured catastrophe that is completely avoidable and contains serious gender consequences. From the beginning, women and children suffered from violence and blockade. As Unicef and auxiliary workers emphasize, Gaza already sees children “starve and die before our eyes”.
Child development: A whole generation of Gaza children is at risk of chronic malnutrition. Acute malnutrition in sub-subjects in Gaza has dramatically increased-Fast 20% of the children are now wasted. Unicef and Save the Children show that early malnutrition leads to stunted growth and mental delay. Even if it can survive to a child, the damage to the brain and immune development can take a lifetime. With closed schools and families that are traumatized, the educational and psychological effects on children are also bad.
Nutritional security and economy: Gaza’s local food systems were broken down. Before October 2023, Israel allowed around 500 trucks every day. After the blockade, this was reduced to only dozens that clearly no longer make the estimated 62,000 tons of monthly needs of the IPC. Fao is firmly convinced that there is widespread hunger, not because there are not enough products, but because access is denied: the blockade of Israel has brought imports to a standstill and ruined agriculture. With closed banking systems and drained cash reserves, Gazan families cannot afford to buy even the modest foods that are admitted.
Gender -based violence (GBV): Food crises tend to increase GBV and Gaza do not escape this pattern. UNFPA reports that an estimated one million girls and women in Gaza are currently living under “dangerous conditions”. In the case of accommodations, which are mostly complete and fundamental services, many women indicate that they are faced with greater abuse and exploitation. Aid organizations reported on escalating incidents of domestic violence and reports on sexual assault, since the pressure of survival increased. Since accommodations and lines are poorly protected for relief, women who collect food or water are usually susceptible to harassment.
Humanitarian aid falls through parachuts in the central Gaza-Deir el-Balah on August 4, 2025 [Mohammed Nassar/Anadolu]
Psychosocial trauma and social consequences: The mental conflict costs are particularly serious for children and mothers. The despair was conveyed in a moving statements – a provider of nurses documented children, which show that they are better than hungry. This trauma in combination with malnutrition will damage the long -term human development of Gaza. Teachers and child psychologists warn that a generation who was born during a famine will have learning problems and health problems that continue to go to adulthood. ‘
Gaza’s hunger and hunger crisis is an Israeli artificially manufactured catastrophe that is completely avoidable and contains serious gender consequences. From the beginning, women and children suffered from violence and blockade. As Unicef and auxiliary workers emphasize, Gaza already sees children “starve and die before our eyes”. The combination of food shortages, failed health care and widespread fear makes it so that the women and children of Gaza are on an unprecedented size of a humanitarian disaster if the siege is not removed. In the short term we have already witnessed spikes in mothers and child mortality, and in the long term we lose a generation through stuning, trauma and lost opportunity. ‘
