Famine

A worker unloads humanitarian aid, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Erez Crossing point in northern Gaza, May 1, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo
USA

Democratic lawmakers tell Biden evidence shows Israel is restricting Gaza aid

A letter to Biden signed by 86 House of Representatives Democrats said Israel's aid restrictions "call into question" its assurances that it was complying with a US Foreign...

Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, 5 March 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
World+Biz

UN report says 282 million people faced acute hunger in 2023, with the worst famine in Gaza

Palestinian woman Nozha Awad flees Al Shifa hospital following an Israeli raid with her triplet children, moving southward in the central Gaza Strip, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Famine 'quite possibly' in some areas of north Gaza, US official says

Palestinian children carry pots as they queue to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid shortages in food supplies, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 14, 2023. REUTERS/Saleh Salem/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Famine imminent in northern Gaza, says UN-backed report

European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a joint news conference with Lebanon's caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib in Beirut, Lebanon 6 January 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
World+Biz

Hunger being used 'as a war arm' in Gaza, EU's Borrell charges

Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, 5 March 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
World+Biz

Britain to warn Israel's Gantz over famine in Gaza

Palestinians with children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, 13 February 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo
Middle East

Famine looms in Gaza: How will the world know it has arrived?

Displaced Palestinians wait to receive free food at a tent camp, amid food shortages, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, 27 February, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Hamas-Israel war

UN agency warns of ‘looming famine’ in Gaza amid Israel war

Displaced Palestinians wait to receive free food at a tent camp, amid food shortages, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, 27 February, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
World+Biz

One quarter of Gaza's people one step away from famine, UN says

Children suffer amid food crisis. File Photo: BSS
World+Biz

'Man-made' Gaza famine can still be avoided: UN agency

An Israeli military vehicle drives near damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from southern Israel, December 19, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Hamas-Israel war

War pushing Gaza to famine, UN warns

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a working session of G7 leaders via video link, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 27, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via
Europe

Zelensky says impossible to forgive 'genocide' of Stalin-era famine

BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas. File Photo: Collected
Politics

Artificial famine being created in country using syndicates: Mirza Abbas