STORY: Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on Tuesday (July 29), hoping to secure a bag of flour or some aid, amid worsening humanitarian conditions.

A global hunger monitor said on Tuesday that a famine scenario was unfolding in the Gaza Strip, with malnutrition soaring, children under five dying of hunger-related causes and humanitarian access severely restricted.

The alert by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) raised the prospect that the man-made starvation crisis in Gaza could be formally classified as a famine, in the hope that this might raise the pressure on Israel to let in far more food.

With the international furoreover Gaza's ordeal growing, Israel announced steps over the weekend to ease aid access. But the U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday it was not getting the permissions it needed to deliver enough aid since Israel began humanitarian pauses in warfare on Sunday (July 27).

Gaza health authorities have been reporting more and more people dying from hunger-related causes. The total stands at 147, among them 88 children, most of whom died in the last few weeks.

Images of emaciated Palestinian children have shocked the world, with Israel's strongest ally U.S. President Donald Trump declaring that many people were starving. He promised to set up new "food centers."

Israel has denied pursuing a policy of starvation. Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Tuesday that the situation in Gaza was "tough" but there were lies about starvation there.

The war began on Oct. 7, 2023 when Hamas militants stormed across the border into Israeli communities. Israel says the militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 people into captivity in Gaza.

Palestinian authorities said more than 60,000 Palestinians were now confirmed killed by Israel's air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip.

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VIDEO SHOWS: CROWDS OF PALESTINIANS CARRYING AID SUPPLIES, THAT ENTERED GAZA ON TRUCKS THROUGH ISRAEL / COMMENTS FROM PALESTINIANS

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SHOWS: BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA (JULY 29, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS WALKING WHILE CARRYING AID SUPPLIES, THAT ENTERED GAZA ON TRUCKS THROUGH ISRAEL

2. PALESTINIANS WALKING, SOME CARRYING AID BOXES

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN, IMAN ASSALIEH, SAYING:

“We came to (get) aid in order to provide the children. (I have) a family of eight members, I want to provide for my children even if a quarter bag of flour... to go bake and make my children happy, like other people and the neighbours - how they bake at the bakery, we want to provide our children with some flour. This is what we want. I have a little child, I give him water with mint to drink because there is no milk.”

4. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS CARRYING AID AND WALKING

5. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN, IMAN ASSALIEH, SAYING:

“Poverty, hunger, lack, when I see my children... other children eat, drink, drink tea, eat bread and beans... My children are what made me come here, between a thousand men, in order to get them some flour."

6. PEOPLE SITTING ON ROADSIDE, ON PILE ON RUBBLE

7. PEOPLE RUNNING

8. MEN CARRYING, HELPING A MAN WITH INJURED LEG

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN WIDOW, NISREEN ISMAIL, SAYING:

"It's been four to five months approximately, we have been suffering since they closed the crossing... In the past, we tried lentils and pasta, now there is nothing. The lentils and pasta became expensive. We are helpless. My child is dying from hunger. That is why I came here. They are suffering, they scream all day long, their voices reached far away, they want to eat.”

10. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS GATHERING ON AND AROUND AID TRUCK

11. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED PALESTINIAN, ABU AL-ABED SHAMBARI, SAYING:

“Here, we are coming from the famine, I used to weigh 117 (kilograms) and today, I am 57 kilograms. We rely on God. We don't have anything to eat, may God help us. We appeal to the whole world and all countries to send us food to eat. We died. We lived this week but we don't know if we are going to live next week. We are losing weight. There are no sugars or anything. There is nothing. We can't buy (anything).”

12. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS GATHERING ON AND AROUND MOVING TRUCKS

13. PEOPLE WALKING