Mass famine in Gaza is being planned, deliberate: UNRWA

On Jul 26, 2025 8:27 PM

GAZA, July 26 (YPA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) accused on Saturday the mass famine in the Gaza Strip of being deliberate and premeditated.

The UNRWA said in a statement asserted that the current aid distribution system, dubbed the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” supported by “Israel” and the United States, is serving “military and political objectives.”

“More children died their bodies exhausted from hunger,” the UN agency explained. “The flawed aid distribution system is not designed to address the humanitarian crisis.”

The statement noted that this system gave the Israeli occupation complete control over all aspects of humanitarian aid access, both inside and outside Gaza.

It affirmed that during the ceasefire period that began in January 2025and ended in March 2025 due to Israeli violations, it succeeded in reversing the worsening hunger. However, it indicated that it currently had the equivalent of 6,000 trucks of food and medical aid stuck in Egypt and Jordan.

The UNRWA’s statement repeatedly called for the reactivation of the UN-supervised aid distribution system to alleviate the famine in the Gaza Strip, noting that “Israel” began implementing a plan to distribute aid last May through the Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation, an initiative the United Nations rejected.

Since March 2, the Israeli occupation has continued to close the Gaza Strip crossings to trucks carrying relief, humanitarian, food, and medical aid, which have been piling up at the border.

Earlier on Friday, the Gaza-based Ministry of Health in announced the deaths of nine Palestinians, including two children, within 24 hours due to the Israeli starvation policy, bringing the number of deaths resulting from starvation and malnutrition to 122 since October 7, 2023, including 83 children.

The American-backed Israeli occupation has been continuing its war in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 203,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them are children and women, in addition to over 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that has claimed the lives of many.