Palestinians, including children, who are struggling with hunger, wait in line to receive hot meals distributed by the charity organizations while Israel's destructive attacks on the Gaza Strip continue as the humanitarian crisis in the region is increasing at Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on June 4, 2025.

US-backed bombing in the Gaza Strip, along with aid restrictions by Israel, will accelerate the death toll of Palestinians there, according to new research from aid groups working in the territory.

In a report published on Wednesday and led by the nonprofit Humanity and Inclusion, dozens of humanitarian organisations cited the confluence of several factors contributing to the crisis. Israel is continuing to kill and injure people with airstrikes and ground operations, even as Gaza’s dwindlingstock of operating hospitals lacks supplies like hygiene materials and medical gas.

Israel’s halt on most aid deliveries is preventing aid workers from giving people sanitation supplies, worsening the spread of disease. And severe shortages of food and water have created widespread dehydration and left the entire population of the Palestinian region in “acute food insecurity,” per the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification famine tracker.

Gaza’s health ministry has counted at least 54,600 Palestinian deaths during the war so far, but some outside analysts believe the true toll is tens of thousands higher.

Nineteen months since Israel invaded the strip with US backing, “Palestinians in Gaza face simultaneous and intersecting crises across every sector,” the report says.

Since March 2, Israel has effectively imposed a full blockade on the region, justifying the policy by saying it is needed to pressure the Palestinian........

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