Published: TUESDAY June 10, 2025: 'GAZA: Hungriest Place On Earth' by ZUMA Press award winning photo-journalist Saher Alghorra: Calling on Israel to stop its campaign of deliberate starvation, UN says its mission to help Gaza is the 'most obstructed in recent history'. Gaza is the ''hungriest place on Earth'' and its entire population is at risk of famine, warns the United Nations, as desperate Palestinians are shot at, starved, and forced from their homes by the Israeli forces. Israel's new aid scheme in Gaza integrates food into military strategy. Since the war began, Israel has restricted aid, easing up when famine alerts were issued, tightening as attention faded. Now, amid a bloody rollout, the new mechanism risks entrenching starvation rather than ending it. Welcome to 'GAZA: Hungriest Place On Earth'
© zReportage.com Issue #993 Story of the Week: Published: TUESDAY June 10, 2025: 'GAZA: Hungriest Place On Earth' by ZUMA Press award winning photo-journalist Saher Alghorra: Calling on Israel to stop its campaign of deliberate starvation, UN says its mission to help Gaza is the 'most obstructed in recent history'. Gaza is the ''hungriest place on Earth'' and its entire population is at risk of famine, warns the United Nations, as desperate Palestinians are shot at, starved, and forced from their homes by the Israeli forces. Israel's new aid scheme in Gaza integrates food into military strategy. Since the war began, Israel has restricted aid, easing up when famine alerts were issued, tightening as attention faded. Now, amid a bloody rollout, the new mechanism risks entrenching starvation rather than ending it. Welcome to 'GAZA: Hungriest Place On Earth'

View through a hole in a building as displaced Palestinians set up their tents inside a Hamas military site, surrounded by unexploded bombs left behind by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. Famine threatens people across Gaza as violence intensifies, border crossings remain closed and food is dangerously scarce.
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Palestinians struggle to receive a food handout at a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.
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A boy sips soup from a large bowl as displaced Palestinians receive a free meal at a displacement camp in central Gaza City, amid widespread hunger and food shortages due to the closure of crossings and the failure to allow aid into the Gaza Strip.
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A young boy visibly malnourished stands with a large empty pot for food, as displaced Palestinians go to receive a free meal at a displacement camp in central Gaza City, amid widespread famine due to the closure of crossings for more than two months, the failure to allow aid into the Gaza Strip, and the ongoing military escalation.
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Pointing toward a destroyed mosque, an elderly Palestinian sits beside water bottles waiting for his turn to fill them, in light of the lack of basic necessities for life in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
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Displaced Palestinians including many children, wait to receive a free meal at a displacement camp in central Gaza City, amid widespread famine due to the closure of crossings for more than two months, the failure to allow aid into the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinians including many children struggle to receive a free meal at a displacement camp in central Gaza City, amid widespread famine due to the closure of crossings for more than two months, the failure to allow aid into the Gaza Strip, and the ongoing military escalation.
© Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire

A boy peers from a tent as displaced Palestinians inspect their temporary shelters for damage by wind and rain, after storms in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.
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Children raise hands to ask questions, as Palestinian woman teaches kids inside a badly damaged building in a camp for displaced people in the western Khan Yunis area in the southern Gaza Strip.
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A Palestinian woman takes an initiative to teach children inside a damaged building in a camp for displaced people in the western Khan Yunis area in the southern Gaza Strip.
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With school notebook on concrete block for a desk, a Palestinian girl sits on the ground and listens during class at a badly damaged school in Khan Younis camp, southern Gaza Strip.
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A Palestinian family sits around a fire on the beach. The tragedy of the displaced on the shore of the Khan Yunis Sea, where they shelter any from the fighting. Seawater regularly floods the tents of the displaced along the beach.
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Palestinian children gather and warm themselves around a fire to escape the bitter cold of the tents in one of the displacement camps in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.
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Sitting on the pier, Palestinians eat their iftar meal during the holy month of Ramadan at the Gaza port in Gaza City amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
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Sunlight filters through a damged building as Palestinians return to their destroyed homes in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. Residents try to clear roads and streets to reach the rubble of their homes.
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Palestinian children play on abandoned Israeli armored personnel carriers that were incapacitated during the war in South Gaza in the Saudi neighborhood area in the west of the city of Rafah.
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Children greet masked and armed Hamas al-Qassam Brigades fighters as Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud is released to Red Cross members outside Yahya Sinwar's house in Khan Yunis during the hostage swap deal between Hamas and Israel.
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Israeli military aircraft launched an airstrike on a previously threatened house in the Saraya area in central Gaza City. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Hamas that Israel will maintain a permanent presence in parts of Gaza unless the hostages in Gaza are released, as Israel escalates a new offensive in the territory.
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Family members grieve and comfort each other next to the bodies of their relatives and loved ones who were killed after the Israeli army targeted aid personnel west of Khan Yunis. As of December 11, 2024, at least 1,057 health care workers in Gaza had been killed.
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A woman grieves for deceased child wrapped in a blood stained cloth as Palestinians mourn lost loved ones after bombings by Israeli forces in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip amid the war with Hamas.
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Palestinian citizens inspect their destroyed homes in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, after a ceasefire came into effect during the 470-day war between Israel and Hamas.
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Palestinian boy fly's a kite from among the rubble and destruction in Jabalia camp, barely existing amidst the bombing and lack of life as the war between Israel and Hamas rages on in Gaza.
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A convoy of white humanitarian aid trucks enter through the Kerem Shalom crossing from Egypt into Rafah on the Gaza Strip, just days after the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
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Thousands of displaced Palestinians arrive in the northern Gaza Strip, following Israel's decision to allow former residents to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas.
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