Hunted by Hunger: The Deliberate Starvation of Gaza

By Angela Crane MD

Published: 2 Aug 2025, 19:15 pm Gaza time.


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Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are starving to death from a lack of food and water under the total blockade imposed by the “israeli” occupation forces. At the same time, that same occupation spends tens of millions on propaganda to control the global narrative.

“israeli” occupation officials and their allies continue to deny that starvation exists in Gaza. They blame Hamas for the crisis and stage photo ops to give the illusion of aid. Meanwhile, Palestinians are not only starving. They are being shot while trying to reach food. What is unfolding is not a humanitarian failure. It is death by design. This is a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing, with starvation used as a weapon and aid as leverage.

Western governments, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, claim to stand for human rights. Yet they remain complicit in the mass starvation and war crimes committed by the “israeli” occupation in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. They fund and arm the “israeli” occupation entity and repeat its denials. Aid is blocked, rationed, or weaponized and always controlled by the same forces committing this genocide.

With journalists banned and international observers expelled, the “israeli” occupation has complete control over the narrative. It silences Palestinians, and when they do speak, their voices are dismissed or ignored.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: Aid as a Weapon

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), created in Delaware in 2025, presents itself as a humanitarian group. In reality, it functions as a militarized aid operation under the oversight of the “israeli” occupation forces and receives partial funding from the United States. GHF was briefly registered in Geneva, the seat of many of the world’s most respected humanitarian organizations, but it was removed for noncompliance. Swiss authorities questioned the legitimacy of a group backed by entities complicit in an ongoing genocide.

Whistleblowers like Anthony Aguilar, a former U.S. Army soldier and former GHF contractor, directly exposed the organization’s role in the killing of unarmed Palestinians and its impact on worsening hunger in Gaza. In televised interviews, Aguilar stated that GHF was complicit in war crimes and revealed that the organization’s contractors, in truth mercenaries, were employed directly by the “israeli” occupation forces.

The security at GHF aid centers, described by Palestinians and human rights activists as death points, is managed by Safe Reach Solutions, a company founded by former CIA operative Philip Reilly. Even the occupation’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, publicly admitted that GHF was the “israeli” occupation’s idea. The same government directing aid distribution is also the one formally charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

GHF began operations in May 2025 after an eleven week blockade that had already left children in Gaza dying from hunger. This was no temporary tactic. It was a deliberate strategy to starve Palestinian civilians under the false pretext of fighting Hamas, the main resistance group opposing the “israeli” occupation in Gaza.

No Food for Babies, No Medicine for the Dying

Newborns are the most vulnerable in any humanitarian emergency. In Gaza, many mothers are so malnourished they cannot produce breast milk. Without formula or medicine, their babies are dying.

At least 122 children, including infants, have died from hunger, with 83 deaths in June alone. They are not numbers. They are lives.

GHF does not distribute baby formula, therapeutic milk, or pediatric antibiotics. These are not logistical errors. Aid organizations confirm these exclusions are part of GHF policy. UN agencies now warn that nearly 20 percent of Gaza’s population is at irreversible levels of starvation. The World Food Program reports that at least 90,000 Palestinian women and children urgently need treatment for malnutrition.

As of July 2025, more than 6,000 aid trucks have been stalled at border crossings under “israeli” occupation control. A U.S. nurse has testified that “israeli” occupation forces have confiscated baby formula.

Other documented practices include:

  • Confiscation of infant nutrition at checkpoints
  • Withholding of baby formula until it spoils
  • Requiring Palestinians to purchase food from “israeli” occupation vendors
  • Blocking medical kits for malnourished children through bureaucratic delays

Aid Buried, Burned and Withheld

The “israeli” occupation military has destroyed life-saving aid intended for Gaza. Food and medicine have been left to rot, incinerated, or buried. Photographs show scorched packaging and spoiled milk. Supplies that could have saved lives were deliberately ruined while Israel blamed Palestinians.

A report by the occupation’s own broadcaster, Kan, cited a military source admitting, “We buried everything underground and burned some of it. Thousands of parcels are still under the sun and if they are not moved soon we will destroy them all.”

This is not mismanagement. This is a methodical campaign using starvation as a weapon against children.

Seeking Aid, Risking Death

Today, Palestinians in Gaza have only three ways to access food.

First are local markets, where aid diverted by occupation-allied militias or mercenaries is resold at prices most families cannot afford.

Second are air drops. While well-intentioned, these have injured civilians, destroyed tents, and often ended up in the hands of intermediaries who resell the aid on the black market.

Third are GHF distribution points, described by survivors as death zones. These sites are fenced, surveilled, and guarded. Witnesses report being shot at or chased when approaching. Some Palestinians are killed before reaching the gates.

This is not relief. This is hunger enforced by guns. Aid is bait. Food is controlled by fear.

Stage 5 Famine: A Closing Window

Gaza is now in Stage 5 famine, the highest level of food insecurity. That means:

  • One in five households has no food.
  • One in three children is acutely malnourished.
  • Death rates are accelerating.

Stage 5 means death by starvation is near. We can still act, but time is running out. Food, water, and medicine must enter immediately without restrictions. Weapons cannot end famine. Only aid can. Even in the early phase of Level 5, we can still reverse severe malnutrition if proper medical care and nutrition reach people right now.

Not a Crisis—A Crime

This is not a natural disaster. It is policy! Children are not dying because food is unavailable, but because it is withheld. This is a slow-motion genocide unfolding while the world debates terminology.

You cannot claim to care about justice and ignore this.
You cannot look away.

Raise your voice.
Call your representatives.
Flood their offices with demands to end arms shipments and open access to Gaza.
Demand accountability
Write to your local media.
Speak at your place of worship.
Stand up in your community.
Refuse to be silent.

This is a genocide. This is a crime against humanity.

Break the siege with your voice before the last child is buried.


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