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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Simon Speakman Cordall

How Israel pushed Gaza to breaking point, ‘starving, alone, and hunted’

Yazan, a malnourished two-year-old Palestinian boy, sits with his brothers at their family's damaged home in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 23, 2025 [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]

Through its unrelenting war on Gaza, Israel has killed over 59,000 Palestinians, injured 143,000 others, and pushed hundreds of thousands into forced starvation caused by its blockade on the enclave and its militarised distribution system.

More than 100 Palestinians have starved to death as a result in recent weeks, 80 of them children.

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