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Humanitarian officials are sounding the alarm over an accelerating starvation crisis in Gaza, with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) accusing Israel of “engineering chaos and massacres” by continuing to obstruct humanitarian aid and opening fire on desperate civilians searching for food.
Despite recent increases in airdropped supplies, food remains “critically scarce,” said Caroline Willemen, MSF’s Gaza project coordinator, in a statement to Al Jazeera on Friday.
“There is little indication that sufficient aid will arrive consistently,” Willemen warned. “As a result, every day, people risk their lives in a desperate search for food.”
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, three more people—including two children—died of hunger and malnutrition in the past 24 hours. This brings the total number of starvation-related deaths since October 2023 to 162, among them 92 children.
The worsening famine is not Gaza’s only tragedy. On Friday, Israeli strikes killed more than 80 Palestinians across the enclave, according to local medical sources. At least 49 people were killed and over 270 injured while waiting for aid distributions, witnesses said.
Outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, families gathered to mourn victims who had been gunned down or fatally injured as they waited for food at crowded humanitarian sites.
The sharp rise in deaths has drawn increased scrutiny from international observers. A global hunger monitoring system earlier this week confirmed that the “worst-case scenario of famine” is now unfolding in Gaza.
Though Israel has authorized multiple airdrops of aid, the United Nations and other humanitarian agencies have condemned these efforts as insufficient and unsustainable.
“Airdrops are a desperate last resort. They’re dangerous, costly, and inefficient,” a top UN official said, adding that unimpeded land access is the only viable solution to the humanitarian disaster.
The allegations that Israel is intentionally creating chaos by weaponizing hunger have intensified in recent weeks. Humanitarian groups say the targeting of civilians near aid sites and the restricted entry of food and supplies amount to a “starvation policy”.
Israel has yet to respond to the latest accusations, but its officials have previously argued that aid efforts are being manipulated by Hamas and that security vetting is necessary.
As famine tightens its grip on Gaza and humanitarian access remains severely limited, aid agencies and rights groups are calling for immediate international intervention. With each passing day, the number of civilians—especially children—dying from hunger continues to rise, turning Gaza’s suffering into what many now call a man-made catastrophe.
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