The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip confirmed on Thursday that the ongoing famine has not been alleviated, as some claim, but is instead worsening to a degree that signals a looming humanitarian collapse. This comes amid the severe Israeli siege that has blocked the entry of food and medical aid for over 145 days.
In a press statement, the office stressed the urgent need for at least 500,000 sacks of flour per week to avoid total collapse of Gaza’s food security system. It warned that the humanitarian situation across the governorates of Gaza reflects an alarming expansion and intensification of hunger.
Hospitals in Gaza have recorded over 115 deaths due to starvation and malnutrition, mostly among children, the ill, and the elderly, amid a near-total lack of food, clean water, and medicine.
The majority of the Strip’s 2.4 million residents are living in inhumane conditions, with a devastated health infrastructure and collapsed relief services.
These developments occur in the context of Israel’s ongoing genocidal war, launched on 7 October 2023, involving relentless bombing, deliberate starvation, and widespread destruction. These actions are in grave violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the use of starvation as a method of warfare and obligates the occupying power to ensure humanitarian aid reaches the civilian population under its control.
The Media Office also categorically denied claims made by some activists outside Gaza about an “end to the famine” and a “surge in aid truck deliveries,” calling these statements completely false and a dangerous alignment with Israeli narratives aimed at evading responsibility for the ongoing crime of mass starvation.
The statement read: “We strongly reject these claims. They are a deliberate distortion of reality and a cover-up for a crime happening in plain sight, amid disgraceful international silence.”
The Media Office called on the international community to act urgently by lifting the blockade, permanently opening the crossings, and allowing the immediate entry of infant formula, medicine, and all forms of humanitarian aid.
Israel has halted aid truck entry since 2 March, despite the trucks being stalled at crossings, using starvation as a weapon to subjugate the population, an open breach of international humanitarian law and the Genocide Convention.
This genocide, carried out with direct U.S. support, has resulted in more than 202,000 Palestinians killed or wounded, the vast majority of them women and children, in addition to over 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine claiming more lives each day amid the total collapse of essential services.
What is happening in Gaza today, under international law, is not only a humanitarian catastrophe, but a full-scale genocide being carried out in full view of the world, without accountability or restraint.
