Overview

• Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid to Gaza since March 2, 2025, causing extreme food and medical shortages and widespread suffering.
• Reports confirm the first child deaths from hunger, with families resorting to desperate measures like cooking grass and fishing turtles for survival.
• Israel’s proposed militarized aid plan, which ties food distribution to biometric screening, has been universally rejected by humanitarian organizations.
• Senior Israeli officials have framed this aid plan as part of a broader strategy for the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.
• German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and UN bodies have called for the immediate lifting of the blockade, citing potential violations of international humanitarian law.