17,000 Children Starving in Gaza: Israeli-Made Famine Pushes People to Collapse in the Streets

17,000 Children Starving in Gaza: Israeli-Made Famine Pushes People to Collapse in the Streets

News July 18, 2025
17,000 Children Starving in Gaza: Israeli-Made Famine Pushes People to Collapse in the Streets
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Gaza’s healthcare system is buckling under the weight of an Israeli-made starvation crisis. The Ministry of Health confirmed Friday that emergency rooms are seeing record numbers of patients of all ages collapsing from exhaustion due to hunger. Israel’s full blockade on Gaza has entered its 139th day, with food and medicine tightly restricted. People are now collapsing in the streets, and the risk of mass death is rising fast. Health officials in Gaza issued a stark warning. Hundreds of severely emaciated Palestinians are on the verge of death, their bodies too weak to resist any longer. “The emergency rooms are overwhelmed,” the Health Ministry said. The Director of Al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera that hospitals are dealing with hundreds suffering from severe hunger and malnutrition. “We don’t have enough beds or medicine,” he said. “We’re seeing symptoms like memory loss, exhaustion, and collapse from extreme hunger.” He added: “We have 17,000 children suffering from severe malnutrition. This is a generation being starved to death.” While hunger spreads, Israeli attacks continue. Medical sources said that at least 30 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza since dawn Friday. Among them were seven people trying to reach food from the US-Israeli The Palestinian NGO Network said Gaza is now in the worst phase of its humanitarian disaster. The group stated that Israel is using starvation as a deliberate weapon of war. More than 2.3 million people in Gaza face crisis-level hunger. Children are dying silently while people are collapsing where they stand. International appeals continue. But without urgent action to lift the siege, Gaza’s starvation crisis could become one of the deadliest man-made famines in recent history.

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