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Here’s where things stand on Wednesday 23 July 2025:
- Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza as 109 aid groups call for action against Israel, warning that “mass starvation is spreading” across the enclave.
- Health authorities in Gaza say at least 15 Palestinians have died of starvation in a single day, bringing the death toll from hunger to 101, including 80 children.
- The EU has warned Israel of action over the worsening starvation crisis in Gaza, as the US said Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, will head to Europe for ceasefire talks and an aid “corridor”.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 59,106 people and wounded 142,511. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Red Crescent warns of worsening situation as starvation deaths mount
As we’ve been reporting, at least 101 Palestinians, including 80 children, have died of starvation in Gaza.
Nebal Farsakh, a spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), said people in the enclave are facing an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe” and warned the “situation is only getting worse”.
“Since the closure of all crossing for more than four months, there has been no food, no clean water, medicine… getting into the Gaza Strip,” Farsakh said in a video shared on social media.
“This has resulted to a catastrophe where people are literally starving to death,” she said.
“More people are being admitted to hospitals with malnutrition, especially among children, pregnant women and elderly,” she added.
Nearly 80 Columbia University students suspended, expelled over Gaza protests
Columbia University in the United States has imposed severe punishments, including expulsion, suspension from courses and revocation of academic degrees, on dozens of students who participated in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.
The student activist group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which has called for the school to cut all financial ties with Israel, said in a statement that nearly 80 students have now been either expelled or suspended for up to three years over their involvement in antiwar protests.
Read more here.
AFP calls on Israel to allow evacuation of journalists from Gaza
Agence France-Presse has urged Israel to facilitate the immediate evacuation of its freelance journalists from Gaza, warning that they face an “appalling” and “untenable” situation in the war-ravaged enclave.
AFP, one of the world’s largest news agencies, made the appeal after an association of its journalists warned that their colleagues in Gaza were facing starvation.
“For months, we have watched helplessly as their living conditions deteriorated dramatically,” the Paris-based agency said in a statement. “Their situation is now untenable, despite their exemplary courage, professional commitment, and resilience.”
Read more here.
More than 100 NGOs sound alarm over mass starvation in Gaza
The group, which includes Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Oxfam, say “mass starvation” is spreading across Gaza and that their colleagues in the enclave are wasting away from hunger.
“Doctors report record rates of acute malnutrition, especially among children and older people,” they said in a statement. “Illnesses like acute watery diarrhoea are spreading, markets are empty, waste is piling up, and adults are collapsing on the streets from hunger and dehydration.”
“Distributions in Gaza average just 28 trucks a day, far from enough for over two million people, many of whom have gone weeks without assistance,” they said. “The UN-led humanitarian system has not failed, it has been prevented from functioning.”
The NGOs said governments must stop waiting for permission to act.
“It is time to take decisive action: demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire; lift all bureaucratic and administrative restrictions; open all land crossings; ensure access to everyone in all of Gaza; reject military-controlled distribution models; restore a principled, UN-led humanitarian response and continue to fund principled and impartial humanitarian organisations,” they said. “States must pursue concrete measures to end the siege, such as halting the transfer of weapons and ammunition.”
“Piecemeal arrangements and symbolic gestures, like airdrops or flawed aid deals, serve as a smokescreen for inaction,” the statement said. “They cannot replace states’ legal and moral obligations to protect Palestinian civilians and ensure meaningful access at scale. States can and must save lives before there are none left to save.”
Israeli forces kill 7 Palestinians in attack on Gaza City
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have bombed a house in Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza City in the early hours of this morning, killing at least seven Palestinians and wounding several more.
The killings come as Israeli forces also attacked the Bureij camp in central Gaza.
We’ll bring you more when we have it.
No food, no aid – hunger is killing people in Gaza
Children are the most vulnerable to the starvation crisis in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says 80 children have died due to malnutrition, four of them in the last 24 hours alone.
A recap of recent developments
- At least 15 Palestinians have died from starvation in Gaza in a single day, health authorities said, taking the total toll since the war began to 101. Some 80 of the victims were children.
- Israeli forces have killed at least 81 Palestinians in Gaza, including 31 aid seekers, according to medics.
- Rescue workers and journalists in Gaza have begun a hunger strike to protest Israel’s starvation of Palestinians, while UN Secretary General-Antonio Guterres says Gaza is a “horror show, with a level of death and destruction without parallel in recent times”.
- UN and humanitarian agencies say doctors, nurses and healthcare workers in Gaza are fainting on the job due to hunger and exhaustion.
- The European Union has warned Israel of action if it fails to deliver on pledges to increase aid into Gaza, and slammed the killing of aid seekers as “indefensible”.
- US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, will be holding talks with Israeli and Qatari officials in Rome to push for a truce as well as finalise an aid “corridor” for Gaza.
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