While famine intensifies into the Gaza Strip, the rare convoys of aid authorized to enter would have been diverted by groups affiliated with the Zionist occupation. The helpless UN calls for massive and unhindered help.
Organized looting of help trucks
In Gaza, 87 humanitarian aid trucks have been authorized to enter in the last two days, but the majority of them have been looted and diverted, according to a statement from the Gaza Emergency Committee published Tuesday, July 29, 2025.
The committee accuses armed groups affiliated with the Zionist occupation, operating from the inside of Gaza, of having acted with the direct and planned complicity of the occupation regime.
According to this body, these diversions make help ineffective and maintain a situation of extreme famine in several areas of the enclave, where women and children continue to die every day. The committee calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire.
The UN is sounding the alarm
In a joint call launched the same day, United Nations agencies – PAM, FAO and UNICEF – have warned that a widespread famine is imminent in Gaza.
“We must flood Gaza with massive and daily food aid, without hindrance,” said Cindy McCain, director of the World Food Program (PAM). It spoke of a crisis comparable to Ethiopia or Biafra in the 20th century, stressing that no contemporary humanitarian situation is getting closer.
The Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC) framework has reported that more than 20,000 children were treated against acute malnutrition between April and mid-July. At least 16 children under the age of five have died in martyrs since July 17, according to local hospitals.
Total blockade and organized famine
Since March 2, 2025, all the crossing points to Gaza have been closed by the occupation army, preventing regular entry of food, medicines and basic necessities.
The number of authorized humanitarian trucks remains much lower than the needs: the UN estimates that it would take 500 to 600 trucks per day to meet the vital needs of the more than two million inhabitants.
PAM stresses that parachutages will not be enough to reverse this disaster. Only a complete ceasefire could allow a structured transport of aid in all regions of Gaza.
