US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says

Conflict and cuts in funding have left World Food Programme ‘taking from the hungry to feed the starving’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/27/us-israel-war-on-iran-driving-historic-levels-of-global-hunger-un-says

 

After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation — ProPublica

They began to starve, and many — mostly children — died because their malnourished bodies couldn't fight off infections, ProPublica found while reporting in the camp. Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed. Young men took to the streets in protests, some of which devolved into violent riots. Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud. Out of options and mortally afraid, refugees began fleeing the camp by foot and in overcramped cars, threatening a new migration crisis on the continent. They said they'd rather risk being shot or dying on the perilous route than slowly starving in Kakuma...

https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths 

 

As famine hits Gaza, Jews abroad take a hard look at Israel’s war - CSMonitor.com

Since late July, more than 1,000 rabbis around the world have signed an open letter warning of "a grave moral crisis, threatening the very basis of Judaism." And this week, more than 80 Orthodox rabbis called upon Israel to address the starvation in Gaza and the violence being carried out by Jewish settlers in the West Bank...

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2025/0822/jewish-israel-palestinian-gaza-starvation-famine 

 

Israel Just Denied This Doctor From Entering Gaza With Food and Baby Formula – Mother Jones

  "When doctors go in and we expose what's happening. The less they have of us there, the better."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/israel-denied-doctor-famine-baby-formula-food-syed/ 

 

Why Arab rulers aren't more vocal about Gaza as global outcry grows

"Those regimes in the Arab world that depend on the U.S. for their security, they don't depend on their legitimacy vis a vis their own people. They depend on U.S. protection, U.S. military bases," Makdisi said...

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-arab-rulers-nations-criticism-palestinians-starvation-rcna224586 

 

Franklin Foer on the Famine in Gaza (Al Franken podcast)

Gaza faces mass starvation as Israel blocks critical food and aid to the region. We’re joined by The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer to discuss his recent piece, “Israel’s Last Chance,” and how the only answer to this atrocity is for Israel to flood Gaza with food.

Foer also discusses the legitimate criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu, while acknowledging that some of the protests can veer into antisemitism, especially on college campuses. Columbia and Harvard are the most prominent universities being attacked by the Trump administration, which is using accusations of antisemitism to withhold federal funding. And while we are seeing Harvard fight back, Foer warns that the end goal for the administration seems to be more government control over universities. 

• READ all of Foer’s recent writing on Israel, Columbia, and Harvard: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/franklin-foer/

Interview: 

https://www.alfranken.com/listen/franklinfoer250810

Starve Away!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEyJ54FAX_g

 

Opinion | Starvation in Gaza has moved Israel defenders to say enough is enough - The Washington Post

Influential MAGA voices have sounded the alarm, too, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who became the first Republican in Congress to call what's happening in Gaza a "genocide." 

Former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon sees a deeper political shift: "It seems that for the under-30-year-old MAGA base, Israel has almost no support," Bannon told Politico, "and Netanyahu's attempt to save himself politically by dragging America in deeper to another Middle East war has turned off a large swath of older MAGA diehards." 

Though this might be overstating the shift, Bannon is right that Israel is hemorrhaging support among conservatives. Even before the starvation crisis broke through in international media, 50 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning adults younger than 50 said they had an unfavorable view of Israel, up from 35 percent in 2022...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/31/starvation-gaza-israel-maga-europe/

 

Republican House Speaker CRASHES As Disaster Claims Unravel Amid Surging crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9p-zKYqMRs

 

Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation | Gaza | The Guardian

Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of 'brutal campaign' and demand permanent ceasefire in letter…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/letter-sanctions-israel-gaza-starvation

 

Israel trying to deflect blame for widespread starvation in Gaza

And while Israel has consistently tried to blame Hamas for intercepting food aid, that claim has been undermined by a leaked US assessment, seen by Reuters, which found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group of US-funded humanitarian supplies. 

Examining 156 incidents of theft or loss of US-funded supplies reported by US aid partner organisations between October 2023 and May 2025, it said it found "no reports alleging Hamas" benefited from US-funded supplies. 

Israel has also recently intensified efforts to blame the UN for the problems with aid distribution, citing a "lack of cooperation from the international community and international organisations". Israel's claims are contradicted by clear evidence of its efforts to undermine aid distribution...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/25/israel-deflect-blame-starvation-gaza-hunger

Global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza

Israel is facing intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and its attacks on humanitarian efforts, as the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the "last lifelines keeping people alive [in the strip] are collapsing". 

An angry chorus of senior figures, among them the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, and a senior Catholic cleric, expressed on Tuesday a growing sense of global horror over Israel's actions... 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/israel-bombs-who-facilities-in-gaza-as-global-outcry-grows

 

Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation

Researchers say problem could increase number of people at risk of starvation by 400m in next two decades…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/10/microplastics-hinder-plant-photosynthesis-study-finds-threatening-millions-with-starvation 

 

Speaker Johnson should remember the starving children in Gaza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFGHawrqnYI

Israel reportedly blocking UN food aid to northern Gaza despite high famine risk

Head of agency says military authorities told UN that convoys will no longer be approved amid 'man-made famine'…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/israel-reportedly-blocking-un-food-aid-to-northern-gaza-despite-high-famine-risk

A visual guide of the obstacles to Gaza aid deliveries

Israel's siege of Gaza has created what aid officials are referring to as "man-made starvation", with the territory facing the threat of mass deaths from famine in the coming weeks. Children are already dying from hunger...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/22/obstacles-to-gaza-aid-deliveries-visual-guide

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says

Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes 'a situation of genocide'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide

Billions of snow crabs in Alaska likely vanished due to warm ocean, study says

The crabs starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature increased their caloric needs, according to the NOAA…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/20/alaska-snow-crabs-dead-ocean-temperatures-climate-change

World Food Program warns of a looming global catastrophe | PBS NewsHour

The U.N. says as many as 37 million people across seven countries, from Djibouti to Uganda, are expected to face acute food security this year…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/world-food-program-warns-of-a-looming-global-catastrophe

'People are dying': how the climate crisis has sparked an exodus to the US - the guardian

As part of the Running Dry series, the Guardian looks at how drought and famine are forcing Guatemalan families to choose between starvation and migration
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jul/29/guatemala-climate-crisis-migration-drought-famine