Israel Deports Father Nadino Capovilla

Khader El-Yateem

OUTRAGEOUS: Israel Deports Father Nadino Capovilla

Once again, the Israeli government reveals its fear — not of violence, but of truth. Father Nadino Capovilla, a globally respected priest from Venice, a man of peace and justice, has been denied entry into the Holy Land. Detained for hours at Tel Aviv airport and ultimately deported on vague claims of “national security,” his only real “threat” was his unwavering commitment to human rights, justice, healing, and reconciliation.

Father Nadino traveled with Pax Christi, a delegation seeking dialogue and solidarity with communities impacted by war and occupation. His crime? Standing with the oppressed. Speaking truth. Advocating for peace.

Let’s be honest: this was not about security. This was about silencing a voice that exposes the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the apartheid policies, the daily humiliation of Palestinians, and the escalating violence against the Christian and Muslim communities alike.

Israel, which calls itself “the only democracy in the Middle East,” is clearly terrified of those who carry a message of justice. If a respected Italian priest had been treated this way by any other country, our governments and media would be up in arms. But when Israel acts, there is silence — even when priests are spat on in the streets of Jerusalem.

We must name it. This is not democracy. This is repression. This is apartheid. This is genocide.

From Palestine, and from all corners of the world that still believe in dignity and human rights, I stand in full solidarity with Father Nadino Capovilla. May his message grow louder in the face of those who try to silence him.

United Nations says families, a generation being ‘wiped out’ by Israel’s war on Gaza- Malnutrition from Israeli-induced starvation, & Israeli strikes kill dozens of Palestinians as journalists are deliberately targeted.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says children in Gaza are dying from starvation and bombardments [File: Khamis Al-Rifi/Reuters]

 11 Aug 2025

Five more Palestinians, including a child, have died of malnutrition as a result of Israel’s punishing blockade of Gaza in the past 24 hour reporting period, the Health Ministry has said, as people in the enclave and many beyond its besieged borders mourned several journalists assassinated by Israel.

The ministry on Monday said most of these victims died in the past three weeks, as Israel-imposed starvation engulfs the entire population, with the total number of severe hunger deaths now at 222, including 101 children.

The Palestinian Wafa news agency later reported the death from malnutrition of an additional child, five-year-old Mohammed Zakaria Khader, bringing the overall death toll in the past 24 hours to six.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said “children in Gaza are dying from starvation and bombardments”.

“Entire families, neighbourhoods, and a generation are being wiped out,” the UN agency wrote in a post on social media. “Inaction and silence are complicity. It’s time for statements to turn into action and for an immediate ceasefire.”

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that hunger and malnutrition levels in Gaza are the highest ever recorded, with more than one-third of the population going without food for days at a time and 500,000 people on the brink of famine.

The agency said Gaza must be “flooded” with large-scale food assistance to avert further catastrophe.

At least 46 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids across Gaza since dawn on Monday, including six aid seekers, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

In one of the latest attacks, the al-Aqsa Hospital reported the killing of four Palestinians by Israeli forces in the south and east of Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said three civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli attack on the Zeitoun neighbourhood of southern Gaza City.

Meanwhile, on a daily basis, Israeli forces and US contractors are continuing to kill Palestinians desperately seeking aid at distribution points run by the controversial United States and Israeli-backed GHF.

Among those killed on Sunday was Ismail Qandil’s son. Speaking at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Qandil told Al Jazeera that his son was unarmed and was looking for food when he was killed.

“He had no bullets, no weapon to shoot with. What did we do? What did we do for this to happen to us? Enough with the hunger and genocide,” he said.

“We are in a famine. We are being slaughtered. We can’t carry on. We send our sons to bring food, and they kill them. We are not members of the resistance, and we are not members of movements or anything. We are being destroyed.”

Israeli strikes kill Palestinian journalists

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,499 people and wounded 153,575 since October 7, 2023. The toll includes at least 270 journalists and media workers.... READ MORE https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/11/un-says-families-a-generation-being-wiped-out-by-israels-war-on-gaza

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‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza Anas al-Sharif

 The following statement was posthumously published on Anas al-Sharif’s X account, after an attack on a tent for journalists near al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Seven people in total were killed including al-Sharif, the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, according to Al Jazeera.  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/11/anas-al-sharif-al-jazeera-journalist-killed-gaza-israeli-airstrike

 

Anas Al-Sharif

@AnasAlSharif0

صحفي فلسطيني من مخيم جباليا، مراسل قناة الجزيرة

@AJArabic

A Palestinian journalist from Jabalia refugee camp, Al Jazeera Channelnews reporter. +970 597890044

instagram.com/anasjamal44

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.

First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabaliya refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final.

I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification – so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine – the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls. I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland.

I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter, Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son, Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission. I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.

I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend – patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith. I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty.

If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting. O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.

Do not forget Gaza. And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.

Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif interviewing a victim of starvation. Photo: Anas al-Sharif / X 2025

Dear America- Please no more Israeli GHF killing fields or other such Zionist schemes that aim to further harass and destroy the native non-Jewish population of historic Palestine.

Anas Al-Sharif- Palestinian journalist for Al Jazeera & yet another reporter targeted and killed by Israel.

 Dear America,

How many more journalists will Israel kill and then lie about why before you catch on to the fact that Israel lies?

How many more international laws and United Nations Resolutions will Israel violate day after day, decade after decade...

How much more graft and corruption will occur before our CEOs, our movie stars, our newspaper editors, our religious advisors, and our elected leaders catch on to the fact that Israel freely interferes with American elections, our mainstream media, our schools and colleges, our intelligence, our computer systems, etc... - sabotaging our democracy.

Israeli cruelty and Zionist lies are endless.  So is the suffering of children being starved to death by Israel's remorseless occupation.

Israel lies about UNRWA in order to destroy UNRWA and the Palestinian refugees that Israel has been forcibly displacing since 1948. Year after year more Palestinian men, women, and children are displaced and pushed into forced exile.

Israel could have and should have welcomed home all the Palestinian refugees long ago.   Until it does The United Nations and  UNWRA are the best option. Please no more Israeli GHF killing fields or other such Zionist schemes that aim to further harass and destroy the native non-Jewish population of historic Palestine.

Israel FIBS, deceives, misinforms, and deploys both bombs and propaganda in order to mislead insiders and outsiders.

Please FREE PALESTINE and free us all from being wage slaves aiding and abetting a huge crime against humanity.

Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

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STOP THE SIEGE- stop funding crazy cruel Israeli schemes & the forced displacement, imprisonment, starvation, torture, and killing of human beings in Gaza and Palestine.

"Remember this was the Israeli military's first response after murdering Shireen Abu Akleh in broad daylight, repeatedly lying about it and then getting away with it. Doing Journalism was [IS] enough to get you killed by Israel." Yousef Munayyer

"More journalists executed in Gaza. This time, the IDF admits it deliberately targeted them because one of them was a “terrorist.” As usual no evidence is provided. But killings after killings, truth-telling won’t die. We all bear witness of Israel genocide..."

Local sources confirm that Israeli forces have assassinated journalist Anas Al-Sharif and several other journalists after Israeli airstrikes targeted a press tent in central Gaza, which is currently under heavy barrages of fire. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Since October 2023, Israel has killed 269 journalists in Gaza, in the deadliest conflict ever recorded for reporters.

Israel has killed Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Esharif and four of his colleagues in an airstrike on their tent outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza. This deliberate assassination of Palestinian journalists is part of Israel’s ongoing effort to silence the truth and carry out genocide in darkness.

"I want my taxes to help children, not kill them. I want my taxes to feed children, not starve them. I want to build a better world, not bomb it." Ms Rachel

Aid blockade deepens Gaza crisis as malnutrition deaths rise, warns UNRWA ... Fuel is running out in Gaza. Displacement is rising. But UNRWA keeps going. In 2 weeks, UNRWA teams: Reached 600,000 pople with water & Cleared 1,500 tons of waste. Let the United Nations- including UNRWA - continue to do its job. Lives depend on it. #UNRWAworks

“Let’s make sport apartheid and genocide free. One ball, one kick at the time,” Francesca Albanese - UN rapporteur calls on European football body to expel Israel to make sport ‘genocide free’

"Israel’s plan for complete military takeover of Gaza must be immediately halted"- United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk At Geneva... & [ALL] the hostages and all those arbitrarily detained must be immediately and unconditionally released.

Nagasaki’s twin bells ring in unison for first time in 80 years to mark atomic bombing. Mayor of Japanese city used the anniversary of US bombing to urge the world to stop armed conflicts, warning nuclear war was ‘looming’ over everyone

Hiroshima 1945- Gaza 2025

Israel’s Gaza City plan sparks global condemnation with warnings of more destruction and suffering – latest updates Widespread calls for takeover plan to be stopped with UK’s Starmer saying escalation will ‘only bring more bloodshed’ and Germany halting arms exports

CNN: Netanyahu "prefers the hostages dead" so he can intensify attacks on Gaza, hostage’s father alleges

Israel's further escalation will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes.

“Diversity can be a source of common strength, a wellspring from which we deepen our awareness of humanity.” Nelson Mandela's words resonate as strongly today as ever.

"It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices" William Dalrymple... Aphrodite,oil lamps,trade routes,churches, etc.

Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says. Israel has continued to target farmland in once-abundant Gaza Strip ... Gaza was a thriving agricultural hub, where farmers and ordinary Palestinians cultivated a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains for local consumption.

Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk - Official UK Trailer

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza. Fatma Hassouna used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? ... We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about the journalist

UN experts call for immediate dismantling of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: “The GHF, a non-governmental organisation created by Israel in February 2025, with US support, to allegedly distribute aid in Gaza, is an utterly disturbing example of how humanitarian relief can be exploited for covert military and geopolitical agendas in serious breach of international law...”

"After three hundred days of war, the UNRWA issued an analysis describing Gaza’s trauma as “chronic and unrelenting”—a collective embodiment of continuous traumatic stress disorder (C.T.S.D.), a condition that stems from living under relentless trauma. Unlike post-traumatic stress disorder, which sets in after a difficult experience, C.T.S.D. is what occurs when there is no end in sight. Gazans have adapted to chronic danger, living in a state of hypervigilance, emotional numbness, and dissociation amid the slow erasure of any imagined future. The effect on children has been especially catastrophic. "

“Take the nuclear option off the table — for good.” At Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial, UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres , urges nations to commit to ‘no first use’ and eliminate #nuclear stockpiles.

"80 years ago an atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima. This must be a reminder to all of us of the irremediable risk of nuclear war, but also of the death and devastation that war — all wars — continue to inflict on human beings caught in conflict. Every day, right now. #Hiroshima80" Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UN agencies and NGOs warn that without immediate action most international NGO partners could be de-registered by Israel in coming weeks

A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky... "Gaza was a bustling, living place until less than two years ago, for all the challenges its residents endured even then. Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone – not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an Israeli military campaign that has left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse."

"Without community-based aid in Gaza: the fittest get some supplies & the vulnerable hardly survive. Stop displacing families, delaying convoys & shooting at hungry people. Let essentials in via all routes. Let us restart our service points, leaving no one behind." OCHA

I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us. Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed

For 80 years, the United Nations has served as the essential, one-of-a-kind meeting ground to advance peace, prosperity and human rights. Amid the profound challenges facing our world today, these solutions and global solidarity are needed more than ever.

The cry for freedom’s echoes: From Selma to Gaza By Lisa D. Bender in the Patriot News Jul. 31, 2025

“The holocaust in Palestine could be stopped if the European Union, Israel's biggest trading partner, would suspend trade agreements and impose crippling sanctions and the United States would impose an arms embargo." — Rula Jebreal, Award-winning Palestinian journalist and author

United Nations experts (& international law) call for end to Israeli State and settler violence in the West Bank

Patriarchs and heads of local churches of Jerusalem are gravely troubled by the prevailing climate of Israeli impunity & settler violence

Our "friend" Israel does not and never has practiced the rule of fair and just laws with equal rights for all... Zionism is ?!!!!

The Israel Lobby comes in many forms, and I suspect Israeli bribes do too. So in a way American funds sent to support Israel come back in the form of an information war on America, aimed at gathering more funds and lethal weaponry so that Israel can continue USURPING land, rights, and peace... and Occupation Forces can continue harassing and harming any who dare object to such blatant injustice and violence.

"Settlers" is too kind a word and too antiquated a word to properly express what modern Israeli "settlers" do.   They are heavily armed usurpers protected and empowered by a very powerful military machine that is funded in part by American taxpayers.  

"Settlers" are what people were generations ago, long before international law and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights which  emerged after the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust.  Israeli USURPERS steal land, rights, and peace.  They also steal the story and twist the facts. So far they have managed to convince American leadership to undermine and de-fund UNWRA and UNESCO.  We should be defending UNRWA and UNESCO, not de-funding them.

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Building a Culture of Peace ...

"The United Nations was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." ~Dag Hammarskjöld, second Secretary-General of the United Nations

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."   https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

"Remember this was the Israeli military's first response after murdering Shireen Abu Akleh in broad daylight, repeatedly lying about it and then getting away with it. Doing Journalism was [IS] enough to get you killed by Israel." Yousef Munayyer

"More journalists executed in Gaza. This time, the IDF admits it deliberately targeted them because one of them was a “terrorist.” As usual no evidence is provided. But killings after killings, truth-telling won’t die. We all bear witness of Israel genocide..."

Yousef Munayyer

@YousefMunayyer

Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem - Shireen Abu Akleh^[a] (Arabic: شيرين أبو عاقلة, Šīrīn Abū ʿĀqila; April 3, 1971 – May 11, 2022) was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by Israeli forces while wearing a blue press vest and covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Abu Akleh was one of the most prominent names across the Middle East for her decades of reporting in the Palestinian territories, and seen as a role model for many Arab and Palestinian women.^[5][6] She is considered to be an icon of Palestinian journalism.^[7]

Local sources confirm that Israeli forces have assassinated journalist Anas Al-Sharif and several other journalists after Israeli airstrikes targeted a press tent in central Gaza, which is currently under heavy barrages of fire. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Local sources confirm that Israeli forces have assassinated journalist Anas Al-Sharif and several other journalists after Israeli airstrikes targeted a press tent in central Gaza, which is currently under heavy barrages of fire.

An outpouring of grief and condemnation has followed the Israeli assassination of five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including prominent correspondent Anas al-Sharif.  

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/11/tributes-condemnation-pour-in-for-slain-al-jazeera-journalists-in-gaza

Since October 2023, Israel has killed 269 journalists in Gaza, in the deadliest conflict ever recorded for reporters.

Israel has killed Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Esharif and four of his colleagues in an airstrike on their tent outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza. This deliberate assassination of Palestinian journalists is part of Israel’s ongoing effort to silence the truth and carry out genocide in darkness.

 

#JournalismIsNotACrime

 

Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي

@MariamBarghouti

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Israel just bombed an murdered the entire Aljazeera staff in Gaza city: Correspondents Anas Al Sharif

@AnasAlSharif0 and Mohammad Qreiqei, killed. 

 

Cameramen Ibrahim Dhaher and Mo’men Aleiwa, killed. 

 

Crew driver, Mohammad Nofal, killed. 

 

All murdered in an Israeli bombing of their TENT stationed by Al-Shifa hospital. 

 

This means, a commander gave the order, and others executed it. 

 

This should be tracked and made public, who killed the journalists. 

 

It wasn’t just a bomb. It was its manufacturer, and the Israeli commanders that are giving the order, and the soldiers saying yes and conducting the strike. 

 

All of these murderers need to be made public by name. Israeli state violence is made by people.

Anas Sharif, @AnasAlSharif0 , renowned Palestinian journalist, & father of two was bombed to death by Israel alongside his peer, Mohammad Qaraqei.

Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي

@MariamBarghouti

 

Tonight, August 10, Anas Sharif,   @AnasAlSharif0, renowned Palestinian journalist, & father of two was bombed to death by Israel alongside his peer, Mohammad Qaraqei. 

 

I will refrain from sharing the gruesome video of his murder, but he died in his press vest, which was mostly burned. 

 

No bulletproof vest can protect against Israeli psychopathy. Anas, like all journalists in Gaza, was killed for sharing the truth without filter. Doing what most journalists in their comfortable offices can’t— their job.

"I want my taxes to help children, not kill them. I want my taxes to feed children, not starve them. I want to build a better world, not bomb it." Ms Rachel

The dehumanization is so painful.” As Gaza’s war rages, Ms. Rachel — beloved by millions of toddlers — has been outspoken for Palestinian children. She says she’s shocked by how deeply they’re dehumanized, and while the backlash has been painful, the support has been greater.

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 "“I was in a lot of pain, because I just didn’t understand. And now I am definitely speaking out, saying — if you care deeply about one group of kids, it does not mean that you don’t care about other groups of kids. That’s not fair, and it’s not right to say that.”

She didn’t stop posting about Gaza; she also continued to make statements condemning antisemitism and expressing grief for Israeli families whose children and loved ones were taken hostage by Hamas. “I just felt led to keep going,” she says. “I have this platform. Kids gave me this platform, and I want to use this platform for kids.”"     https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/interactive/2025/ms-rachel-childrens-media/?itid=sr_0_b963bb7d-4f70-4d9e-960a-8b7e83553a10

Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy.

The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.

By Caitlin Gibson

July 31, 2025 in The Washington Post

 

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Aid blockade deepens Gaza crisis as malnutrition deaths rise, warns UNRWA ... Fuel is running out in Gaza. Displacement is rising. But UNRWA keeps going. In 2 weeks, UNRWA teams: Reached 600,000 pople with water & Cleared 1,500 tons of waste. Let the United Nations- including UNRWA - continue to do its job. Lives depend on it. #UNRWAworks

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165618

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A Gazan woman holds precious food items she has managed to receive from an aid truck.

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A Gazan woman holds precious food items she has managed to receive from an aid truck.

9 August 2025 Peace and Security

The UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the Gaza Strip faces a “catastrophic” humanitarian crisis, with no agency aid allowed in for more than five months and malnutrition deaths climbing sharply.

“For over 150 days, not a single truck from UNRWA has been permitted to deliver food, medicine or other essentials into Gaza,” the agency said on Friday. “This denial of access is costing lives every single day.”

Nearly 100 children dead from malnutrition

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, cited by the UN, at least 61,158 Palestinians have been killed and more than 151,000 injured since October, amid relentless Israeli bombardment and ground operations.

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UNRWA said nearly 350 of its own staff are among the dead since Israel’s military operation in Gaza began following the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led terror attacks.

Many civilians have been killed while sheltering in schools or tents, or while queuing for food.

Food insecurity is now acute. UN data show 193 people — including 96 children — have died from malnutrition since the start of August, with July seeing the highest monthly rate of acute malnutrition recorded in children under five.

Soaring prices

Wheat flour prices have soared by up to 15,000 per cent compared to pre-war levels. “Sustained, large-scale deliveries are the only way to stabilise food supplies and prices,” UNRWA stressed.

Health services are close to collapse. More than half of essential medical supplies are already out of stock, and hospitals have been forced to ration fuel for generators. UNRWA teams have nevertheless managed over 1.5 million health consultations since March, but “without resupply, our ability to save lives is dwindling,” the agency warned.

Vast scale of displacement

Displacement is on a vast scale: 1.9 million people — around 90 per cent of Gaza’s population — have been forced from their homes, many repeatedly. Nearly 100,000 are crammed into over 60 UNRWA-run shelters.

In the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank, around 30,000 people from Nur Shams, Tulkarm and Jenin refugee camps remain unable to return home due to Israel’s “Iron Wall” military operation, ongoing since January.

The agency urged immediate, unhindered humanitarian access. “We need the world to act — to open the crossings, to stop the suffering, and to uphold the most basic principles of humanity,” it said.

The UN Security Council is due to meet in New York in emergency session on Sunday morning local time to discuss the Israeli cabinet's endorsement of a military takeover of Gaza City which is home to around one million Palestinians.