A few weeks ago, Soliman Zyad, a young health-care worker in northern Gaza, told me that his family was near starvation. On some days, he and his uncle AbdulKareem walked in search of food from 3 A.M.

In late August, two of the world’s leading food crisis assessments came to the same conclusion about what is happening in Gaza: “famine with reasonable evidence.” One was the UN-affiliated Integrated ...

Palestinian-Americans are speaking out about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where the Hamas-run health ministry says at least 100 children have starved to death since the war in the Middle East ...

To understand the limits of how little food the human body can endure and to get a better idea of how serious the situation is on the ground in Gaza, PBS News spoke with Jeanette Bailey, the Global ...

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Hunger exists on a spectrum. On the one end is food insecurity, where people are forced to adjust to fewer meals. As food becomes scarce, the body consumes its own reserves. The journey from hunger to ...

Editor's note: This story reflects reporting through Aug. 7, 2025. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification made a formal declaration of famine for northern Gaza on Aug. 22, 2025. Read more ...

In July 2025, news outlets circulated an image of a severely malnourished Palestinian child amid Israel's ongoing destructive assault and humanitarian aid blockade on the Gaza Strip in response to ...

As deaths from starvation in the Gaza Strip continue to rise, experts say there’s no easy way out of the crisis due to the medical complexity of treating severe malnutrition. More than 160 people — at ...

Even in the chaos and fog of war, it appears increasingly obvious that a mass starvation event is in the making along Israel’s southwest border, in Gaza. People of goodwill across the world must ...

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