Starvation by design: How Israel turned food into a weapon of war in Gaza

In the first three months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in 2023, only four deaths were officially attributed to starvation by health officials in Gaza. By 2024, that number rose to 49.  But it was in 2025 – the year the siege reached its suffocating zenith – that the death toll exploded, reaching 422 deaths in a single year.

This represents a staggering 760 percent increase in starvation dea...