One in five people in Gaza face starvation, report warns, as Israel’s months-long blockade continues

Gaza’s starving children, their eyes growing bigger as the blockade grinds on, are not fake news

The BBC report carries a warning: 'Distressing content'. What luxury it is to be able to look away

What is famine, and why is Gaza at risk of reaching it soon?

One in five in Gaza face famine as Israel’s blockade continues. What does starvation do to the human body?

'They've lost hope': From Australia, Ahmed fears for his family as a crisis spirals

No humanitarian aid has entered Gaza since early March. Now, Ahmed fears for his family, who are down to their last cans of food.

'Children cry from hunger - their mothers have nothing to feed them': Gazans speak to BBC

Israel says it's blocking aid to put pressure on Hamas to release hostages, but aid agencies accuse it of using starvation as a weapon of war.

Israel vows 'full-force' Gaza push as famine threatens

As Gaza reels from Tuesday's hospital strike, the humanitarian toll of Netanyahu's two-month blockade of food and supplies into war-torn Gaza is reaching a critical point.

Palestinians are counting lentils, as Gaza food crisis worsens

Nearly half a million people in Gaza now face starvation, according to a new report from the IPC, the international panel of famine experts who advise the United Nations.For more than ten weeks, Israel has halted the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, to pressure Hamas to release Israeli hostages. Israel accuses Hamas of seizing aid, selling it on the black market and using aid distribution to reinforce its control of Gaza.The UN says hundreds …