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Israel starving Palestinians in violation of ceasefire, Gaza authorities warn

Iran Press TV

Tuesday, 21 October 2025 3:25 PM

The Gaza Government Media Office says Israel is violating the ceasefire agreement by obstructing aid deliveries and continuing the deliberate campaign of starving Palestinians.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the office said that since the October 10 ceasefire, only 986 aid trucks have entered the besieged territory, far below the levels promised under the agreement.

"We note that the average number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip daily since the ceasefire began does not exceed 89 trucks out of 600 trucks that are supposed to enter," it stated, noting that this reflects "the continued policy of strangulation, starvation and humanitarian blackmail practiced by the [Israeli] occupation."

Under the ceasefire agreement between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and Israel, at least 6,600 trucks were expected to reach Gaza by Monday evening.

The statement emphasized that these limited deliveries fail to meet the essential living needs, including food, medical supplies, operational fuel, and cooking gas, to ensure basic, dignified living conditions.

Echoing the same warning, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Tuesday that food deliveries to Gaza remain far below the agency's target of 2,000 tons per day.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, WFP's senior regional communications officer for West Asia, North Africa, and Eastern Europe, Abeer Etefa, said more than 530 trucks have entered Gaza since the ceasefire, carrying roughly 6,700 tons of food, enough to feed half a million people for just two weeks.

Etefa noted that the agency has been able to operate only a single distribution in northern Gaza, providing a limited supply of nutrition supplements and snacks for pregnant and nursing mothers, as well as malnourished children, while access to northern Gaza and Gaza City remains extremely restricted.

"Food remains largely out of reach for most residents," she said, citing prohibitively high prices.

The WFP officer urged Israeli authorities to open all border crossings, particularly Rafah, emphasizing that current operations depend solely on the Karam Shalom and Kissufim crossings, which cannot serve northern Gaza.

"Sustaining the ceasefire is vital," she added. "It is the only way we can save lives and push back on the famine in the north."

Since famine was officially declared in the Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on August 22, 2025, 179 people, including 37 children, have died of starvation in the besieged strip.

Gaza Health Ministry reported last month that the death toll from malnutrition due to Israel's deliberate food blockade has reached 453 since October 2023, when Israel launched a genocidal war on the enclave.