Starvation in Gaza Persists Despite Increased Aid Deliveries

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The latest reporting from Gaza describes a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. Children are starving; families face impossible choices between food and safety. Hospitals cannot function and medical staff are too weak to help patients. We talk to aid workers and journalists reporting from both sides of Israel’s near-total blockade of supplies going into Gaza about what they’re witnessing and what it will take to save lives. Guests: Bel Trew, chief international correspondent, The Independent Youmna ElSayed, Gaza correspondent reporting from Egypt, Al Jazeera Tjada D'Oyen McKenna, chief executive officer, Mercy Corps Maram Husaid, digital correspondent in Gaza, Al Jazeera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.0	arrived in San Francisco yesterday to get treatment for traumatic
1:12.5	leg injuries and severe burns.
1:15.3	Advocates who took on the arduous process of getting the kids from Gaza to the U.S.
1:19.7	say among the first steps will be to address their malnutrition.
1:23.4	The latest reports from Gaza describe children starving, hospitals unable to function, and medical
1:29.0	teams too weak to help patients.
1:31.7	We take a closer look at the situation in Gaza and whether a recent increase in aid deliveries
1:37.2	is changing anything on the ground.
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1:50.9	International airdrops of food aid into Gaza have resumed in the last two weeks after Israel eased restrictions in response to global outrage over widespread starvation among Palestinians.
2:01.7	At least 180 people have died from hunger, including more than 90 children, according to Gaza's
2:07.2	health ministry.
2:08.7	The independence bell true was aboard a Jordanian military plane earlier this week, as pallets of
2:14.0	food were flung from the aircraft to the people below.
2:19.0	True is chief international correspondent for the Independent based in Jerusalem and joins me now, Bell, welcome to Forum.
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