Children In Gaza Are Starving. Talking Is Not Enough.
Naeema, a 30-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her malnourished 2-year-old son Yazan as they stand in their damaged home in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 23, 2025.
The internet is awash with heartbreaking images and videos of emaciated babies and children held by their parents – a new and devastating normal as Gaza’s famine reaches desperate levels.
Children like two-year-old Yazan (pictured above) who is severely malnourished.
Children like six-week-old Youssef, who died of malnutrition as his family couldn’t access formula milk.
Children like Muhammad, an 18-month-old (pictured below) who faces life-threatening malnutrition having dropped from nine to six kilograms in weight.
We now live in a world where Gazan children – innocent kids – are telling their parents they “want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food”.
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— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) July 23, 2025No child should be subjected to this level of hunger.
It is especially cruel that food and aid, including much-needed formula milk, is available yet not reaching them.
At the start of March, Israel blocked humanitarian aid and essential supplies from reaching the Gaza Strip as a way to force Hamas to release the remaining hostages taken after the brutal attacks on 7 October 2023, in which over 1,000 people were massacred by the terrorist organisation.
The BBC reported Israel’s blockade was partially eased after almost two months, however “the shortages of food, medicine and fuel have worsened”.
Earlier this week, Joseph Belliveau of US-based medical humanitarian group MedGlobal, said children had died “because there is not enough food in Gaza and not enough medicines, including IV fluids and therapeutic formula, to revive them”.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has reported 113 people have already died “due to famine and malnutrition”. A senior Israeli security official denied famine claims, according to © HuffPost
