One in five in Gaza face famine as Israel’s blockade continues. What does starvation do to the human body?
These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank for Thursday, May 15.
![Mourners pray over the shrouded bodies of victims of Israeli strikes on Jabalia, at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip [Bashar Taleb/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AFP__20250515__46UB7CP__v2__HighRes__PalestinianIsraelConflict-1747372700.jpg?resize=570%2C380&quality=80)
The IPC says a full 100% of Gaza now experiences acute food insecurity while half-a-million people face starvation.
![Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, April 3, 2025. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters] (Reuters)](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025-04-03T153538Z_1626295547_RC2BQDAZDTA0_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-1747077594.jpg?resize=570%2C380&quality=80)
At least nine Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
Gaza Media Office says some 3,500 children below five ‘face imminent death by starvation’ amid Israel’s total blockade.
With the rainy season and funding cuts looming, the World Food Programme is worried about the displaced in Sudan.
![Awadiya Al-Day Ibrahim, a mother of five, sits holding her newborn, Hinda, as she waits in their makeshift tent for the upcoming food distribution by World Food Programme (WFP) at Albohuth camp, in Kassala, Sudan March 17, 2025. [Abubaker Garelnabei/WFP handout via Reuters] (Reuters)](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025-04-14T171546Z_1961233045_RC2JEDAIN2YA_RTRMADP_3_SUDAN-POLITICS-ANNIVERSARY-WFP-1746205113.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Israeli forces are accused of targeting Palestinians collecting food for their families in Gaza.
![A Palestinian father mourns the death of his son who was collecting food when he was reportedly hit in an Israeli attack. [@mahmoud.z.aliwa via Instagram]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Palestinian_father_daughter_mourn_son_killed_in_Gaza-1746117889.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Palestinian fishermen in Gaza have resorted to eating turtle meat due to severe food shortages due to Israel’s blockade.
Funding cuts could mean less help for people in Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and many more countries, UN aid chief said.
Palestinians are struggling this Ramadan amid soaring prices and fears of renewed starvation after Gaza aid blockade.
The pause in USAID funding is exacerbating the hunger crisis in Sudan and compounding the challenge for relief workers.
US aid freeze shuts Sudan’s food kitchens, deepening famine as millions face acute hunger and displacement.
NGO ActionAid and locals say cost of some items has risen between 18% and 160% as conflict blocks aid and supplies.
By 2029 the programme hopes to reach 82.9 million people in efforts to counter malnutrition.
