STORY: The Gaza Strip is on the brink of famine, UN agencies warned on Wednesday (July 30), according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) alert findings.

Malnutrition is soaring and children under five are dying of hunger-related causes with humanitarian access severely restricted, the U.N. said.

The U.N. estimates that Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 people seeking food since May, most near militarised distribution sites of the GHF, which employs a U.S. logistics firm run by a former CIA officer and armed U.S. veterans. The GHF denies that there have been deadly incidents at its sites, and says the deadliest have been near other aid convoys.

The Israeli military has acknowledged that civilians have been harmed by its gunfire near distribution centres, and says its forces have now received better instructions.Israel accuses Hamas fighters of stealing aid - which the militants deny - and the U.N. of failing to prevent it. The U.N. says it has not seen evidence of Hamas diverting much aid. Hamas accuses Israel of causing starvation and using aid as a weapon.

Gaza's food stocks have been running out since Israel, at war with Palestinian militant group Hamas since October 2023, cut off all supplies to the territory in March. That blockade was lifted in May but with restrictions that Israel says are needed to prevent aid being diverted to militant groups.

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VIDEO SHOWS: DISPLACED PALESTINIANS GATHERING IN FRONT OF A LOCAL COMMUNITY KITCHEN IN WESTERN GAZA CITY WAITING FOR FOOD / SOUNDBITES FROM PALESTINIANS QUEUEING FOR FOOD

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SHOWS: GAZA CITY, GAZA (JULY 30, 2025) (UNTV - Access all)

1.VARIOUS OF GROUPS OF DISPLACED PALESTINIANS GATHERING IN FRONT OF A LOCAL COMMUNITY KITCHEN IN WESTERN GAZA CITY

2. COMMUNITY KITCHEN WORKER LADLING LENTIL SOUP INTO THE CONTAINERS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE NEAR TENTS SET UP IN WESTERN GAZA CITY

3. PEOPLE WAITING TO RECEIVE FOOD

4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) DISPLACED PALESTINIAN, MOHAMMED NAIFEH, SAYING:

“I have been standing here for four hours, and I cannot get food amid the crowd and the sun. We are dying; we need support, we need food and drink. Where are the countries of the world? We are dying here from hunger. Every day we eat only lentils; there is no flour, no food, no drink. We are dying of hunger.”

5. WORKER AT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY KITCHEN LADLING LENTIL SOUP INTO PLASTIC CONTAINERS

6. PEOPLE WAITING TO RECEIVE FOOD

7. ELDERLY DISPLACED MAN, NAMED ZIAD AL-GHAREEZ, SITTING DOWN DRINKING A CUP OF LENTIL SOUP

8. MAN’S HANDS HOLDING LENTIL SOUP

7. SOUNDBITE (ARABIC) DISPLACED ELDERLY PALESTINIAN MAN, ZIAD AL-GHAREEZ SAYING:

“Now I have gone ten straight days without tasting bread; I eat the lentil soup distributed by the community kitchen. I can’t buy flour at all; I have no money to buy it, so I try to get anything the kitchen distributes. The people of Gaza are hungry people.”

8. VARIOUS OF DISPLACED MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WAITING TO RECEIVE FOOD

9. BOY HOLDING POT WITH HEAD IN HIS HANDS

10. PEOPLE WAITING OT RECEIVE FOOD

11. VARIOUS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN WAITING TO GET FOOD

12. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED PALESTINIAN WOMAN, UM MOHAMMED SAYING:

“There is no water, no food, no bread, and what forces us to come here is more humiliating than anything. In the end, we return with nothing; either we come back burned under the sun or we are trampled by feet because of the overcrowding, and we return empty-handed.”

13. VARIOUS OF POTS OF LENTIL SOUP COOKING ON FIREWOOD

14. PEOPLE HOLDING POTS AND PANS, WAITING TO RECEIVE FOOD

15. CHILDREN WAITING BEHIND FENCE

16. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CROWDING WAITING TO RECEIVE FOOD

17. PEOPLE HOLDING POTS AND PANS, MAN GESTURING TO HIS MOUTH

18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic)MAN DISPLACED FROM BEIT HANOUN TO WESTERN GAZA CITY, BASSAM ABU OUDA SAYING:

“We call on all free people of the world and peace lovers to help us provide food and water until this famine imposed on us by the occupation ends. What the occupation allows in terms of truck entries does not equal a drop in the ocean.”

19. VARIOUS OF DISPLACED PEOPLE CARRYING EMPTY CONTAINERS IN THE HOPE OF FILLING THEM WITH FOOD.

20. UPSOUND (Arabic) YOUNG GIRL WAITING BEHIND AN IRON FENCE HOLDING AN EMPTY CONTAINER, SAYING: “I came to fill it with lentils.”

21. VARIOUS OF EMPTY PANS

22. PEOPLE HOLDING OUT EMPTY PANS, WAITING FOR FOOD

23. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SCRAMBLING TO REACH OVER FENCE TO RECEIVE FOOD

24. YOUNG BOY HOLDING PANS AND LOOKING UP