The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday that the death toll from malnutrition, resulting from the ongoing Israeli starvation policy, has risen to 460 Palestinians, including 154 children, since October 7, 2023. The ministry said in a statement that it had recorded one death due to famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours. It noted that since the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared famine in Gaza City last August, 182 deaths, including 39 children, have been recorded. On August 22, the IPC announced, in a report, the occurrence of famine in Gaza City (north), and expected it to extend to the cities of Deir al-Balah (central) and Khan Yunis (south) by the end of September. Since March 2, Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, preventing any humanitarian aid from entering, plunging the Strip into famine despite the backlog of aid trucks at its borders. Occasionally, it allows in very limited quantities of aid, which fail to meet the minimum needs of the starving and fail to end the famine, especially since most of the trucks are robbed by gangs that the “Gaza government” claims are protected by Israel.
