Over 100 Aid Groups Warn Mass Starvation Spreads Across Gaza

More than 100 international humanitarian organizations, including Médecins Sans Frontières, Save the Children, and Oxfam, have issued urgent warnings about mass starvation in Gaza amid severe food shortages caused by Israeli-imposed blockades and military offensives. Gaza's health ministry reports rising deaths from malnutrition, with children particularly affected, and hospitals overwhelmed by cases of severe exhaustion and illness linked to lack of food. Aid distribution sites have become deadly, as Israeli forces have killed Palestinians seeking food near these locations, with reports of dozens of such fatalities. Despite Israel's announcement of a "humanitarian pause" to facilitate aid distribution, critics including the UN and humanitarian experts argue the measures are insufficient and that airdrops are largely symbolic, urging the opening of land crossings to allow sustained aid flow. The humanitarian crisis is exacerbated by Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries and accusations from Israel blaming the UN for ineffective aid distribution, which UN officials deny. The worsening conditions have drawn global outrage as Gaza faces an escalating catastrophe of starvation and violence against aid seekers.