Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump appeared on Friday to abandon Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, both saying it

The UN says the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is very bad, getting worse fast. Amid air strikes, hunger, and mass displacement, Secretary-General António Guterres says what's happening is a moral stain on the entire world.

The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is beyond the world’s “worst fears,” Australia’s government said Friday, as reports of mass starvation and disease across the war-torn enclave persist. “The situation in Gaza has gone beyond the world’s worst fears.

Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."

Both Israel and Hamas are facing pressure at home and abroad to reach a deal following almost two years of war, with the humanitarian situation inside Gaza deteriorating.

Calling Hamas unwilling to negotiate, President Trump urged Israel to "clean it up" in Gaza and "finish the job," after US-brokered truce talks broke down and hostilities resumed.

Palestinians gather at a food distribution point in Gaza City, on July 20, 2025. The World Food Programme says nearly one in three people in Gaza do not eat for days at a stretch, and ”thousands” are ”on the verge of catastrophic hunger”. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto)

Harrowing reports from the Gaza Strip report almost daily on the children dying of malnutrition in hospitals and clinics that simply don’t have the food to keep them alive. Writing in the Guardian this week,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump appeared on Friday to abandon Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, both claiming it had become clear that the Palestinian militants did not want a deal.