Gazans are starving. Will aid get in?
Post Reports
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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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As hunger reaches new levels in Gaza, society is on the brink of collapse. Even doctors are struggling to find the energy to treat patients without enough food themselves. At least 147 people have died of malnutrition, including 88 children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Medics have said that is probably an undercount. In recent months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have also been killed while waiting for aid distributed in Israeli-controlled combat zones.
Israel has tightened its control of humanitarian aid going into Gaza in recent months to pressure Hamas. Israel has blamed Hamas for the crisis and its refusal to release the remaining hostages. The latest round of ceasefire talks involving the United States broke down last week.
International pressure is mounting on Israel to lift its near total blockade on Gaza. President Donald Trump recently voiced concerns about the situation.
Israel has started allowing more aid trucks in, and it resumed power to a critical water treatment plant. Critics worry about whether enough is being done.
Today, host Colby Itkowitz speaks with Louisa Loveluck, a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post who has been reporting for months about the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and what the future holds.
Today’s show was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy with help from Elana Gordon. It was edited by Maggie Penman and Erin Cunningham. It was mixed by Sean Carter.
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| 0:00.0 | The hunger crisis in Gaza is getting worse. |
| 0:05.6 | The United Nations estimates that nearly one in three people in Gaza are going multiple |
| 0:09.8 | days without eating. Hospitals are reporting rising deaths from malnutrition. |
| 0:15.2 | A pediatrician named Fidda Elnadi, she recently told the post that she herself has been |
| 0:20.0 | struggling to provide for her kids. |
| 0:22.6 | Her daughter just turned five. |
| 0:24.1 | She woke this morning and asked me for a cake for her birthday, but I cried really because |
| 0:31.4 | we have no evidence to do any cakes in her. |
| 0:36.1 | There's no flour, no eggs, no sugar. |
| 0:39.7 | Nothing, nothing, nothing, you can say. |
| 0:47.1 | International pressure has been mounting on Israel |
| 0:49.3 | to lift its near total block on aid. |
| 0:52.4 | On Sunday, Israel did start to allow in more Eid. |
| 0:55.9 | But it's really minimal. |
| 0:57.4 | The trucks and aid drops coming in are a momentary reprieve. |
| 1:00.9 | The need far exceeds it. |
| 1:06.6 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm Kolbyikowitz. It's Monday, |
| 1:13.1 | July 28th. Today, I turn to my colleague Louisa Loveluck, a foreign correspondent for The Post. |
| 1:20.3 | She's been reporting for months about the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and what the future holds. |
| 1:30.0 | Louisa, thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 1:32.8 | Thank you. |
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