How 2 Million People Are Being Starved in Gaza Right Now

Gaza Isn’t Starving. It’s Being Starved.

Children. Mothers. Families. Blocked from food. Denied medicine. Dying while the world watches.

What’s happening in Gaza is not a food shortage. It is a siege. A deliberate, systematic deprivation of aid that is killing people while essential supplies sit just across the border, undelivered.

According to the World Health Organization, the entire population of Gaza, more than 2.1 million people, is experiencing prolonged food shortages. Nearly half a million are already in a catastrophic state: starving, sick, and struggling to survive. As of July 2025, 86 people have died from hunger, 76 of them children. The risk of famine grows by the day.

Famine has not been officially declared, but the signs are here. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global standard for measuring food crises, now places three-quarters of Gaza’s population at the two most extreme levels: "Emergency" and "Catastrophic."

Meanwhile, the cost of basic food ,when it’s available, has skyrocketed. In some areas, rice and flour are sold at up to 10 times their normal price. Most families can’t afford even a single meal a day.

This is one of the worst hunger crises in the world, unfolding in real time. And yet, humanitarian principles are being ignored. Aid is blocked. Lives are lost. An entire generation is being stolen before our eyes.

The World Health Organization has enough supplies waiting to treat 500 children with acute malnutrition but they can’t get in. Essential medicine for trauma and disease treatment is also being withheld.

This is not a natural disaster. It’s a man-made emergency. It’s not a silent crisis but it’s being silenced.

Gaza isn’t starving. It’s being starved.

Source: World Health Organization