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"Hunger is everywhere you look," an aid worker in Gaza tells the BBC.

According to the Hamas-run health ministry, 113 people, including 81 children, have died of malnutrition since 7 October 2023.

In the few remaining food markets in Gaza, prices have skyrocketed - UK charity Christian Aid reports that a bag of flour now costs more than £400.

The charity's consultant in the territory says humanitarian aid provides the main source of food, but it is "very dangerous to try and access". The UN has said at least 1,054 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while seeking food since 27 May.

The chief of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa), Philippe Lazzarini, says the organisation has 6,000 trucks' worth of aid waiting in Egypt and Jordan to enter Gaza. He calls on Israel to allow "unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian assistance to Gaza".

Israel has said that 150 food trucks were collected by the UN and aid organisations in Gaza on Wednesday, it also says more than 800 await collection. Aid organisations blame an Israeli "siege" for the mass starvation in Gaza.

Earlier, BBC News and news agencies AFP, AP and Reuters warned that journalists in Gaza are at risk of starvation and urged Israel to allow journalists in and out of the region.

And, Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has recalled his team of negotiators in Doha. An Israel-Hamas ceasefire is still yet to materialise as the war continues.

We're now closing our live coverage. You can keep up to date in our news story.

We've been reporting over recent days of the struggle of those in Gaza who are severely malnourished because of a lack of aid being distributed.

In the clip below, a Palestinian woman explains how she has been coming to a soup kitchen every day but has been unable to get any food.

"Today I came and did not get anything," she says. "We drink water and go to bed, what else can we do."

Moazzam Malik, CEO of Save the Children UK, has told the BBC's 5 Live that his colleagues are “living in crisis”.

He says that the more than 220 workers in Gaza have already been displaced by the war, many of them between 10 and 15 times.

Malik explains that Save the Children workers "depend on the market and UN distribution systems" for their supplies.

“I spoke to the head of our Gaza team last night and she said she could see our staff, particularly the younger women getting visibly thinner."

Image source, Palestine Red Crescent Society

A doctor working at a hospital in Gaza City has said that children are so malnourished that they are dizzy and drowsy.

“Children are suffering from severe malnutrition, and they are in need of food supplements, and they need essential foods," Dr Mohamed Al-Deeb, a Palestine Red Crescent Society doctor at Al-Quds Hospital, says.

"We have received a lot of cases such as this, who are suffering from severe malnutrition and even sometimes collapse in their sleep,” he adds, via a statement from the Red Cross.

“Facing here every day is catastrophic and there is a severe deficiency of all the necessary equipment, such as flour, sugar and the essential proteins and carbohydrate for every single individual."

As we have been reporting, the BBC News and three leading news agencies have put out a joint statement expressing their desperate concern for journalists in Gaza, who they say are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.

BBC News, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP) and Reuters said that those reporting the conflict from Gaza now face starvation and "the same dire circumstances as those they are covering."

A little earlier, the BBC's Director of News Content, Richard Burgess, spoke of the corporations grave concern for Gazan journalists.

As a reminder: Israel does not allow foreign media, including the BBC, to send journalists into Gaza, so international news outlets must rely on local reporters within the territory.

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As food and vital supplies become more scarce, prices for basic goods at markets in Gaza have risen.

Here's a sample of the prices from a market in Gaza City collected on Wednesday by UK charity Christian Aid:

• Pack of 64 nappies: 640 Israeli shekels (£141)
• 250g of instant coffee: 350 Israeli shekels (£77)

• Three eggs: 51 Israeli shekels (£11)
• 25kg bag of flour: 1,875 Israeli shekels (£414)
• 1kg of onions: 110 Israeli shekels (£24)

According to a Christian Aid consultant in Gaza "there are hardly any local markets anymore" and "the only way to buy is if you have cash in your hands".

The consultant, whose family of 15 are trapped in the Strip, says humanitarian efforts are providing “the main source of food", but they say this is "very dangerous to try and access".

A man who says he is trying to take care of 22 people, including some who are injured, says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is "shameful" and that people are "starving".

"Enough, enough, enough," he says, adding: "I want breakfast for my children."

Emir Nader
Reporting from Jerusalem

Mohammed al-Qedra, 33, is one of the many patients brought to the field hospital run by British charity UK-Med in southern Gaza who sought food but found only violence.

He said he was shot in the hand and leg while trying to get food for his family at a nearby aid distribution centre run by the Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Mohammed said he was aware of the risk he was taking by trying to reach the GHF site, but that he had no choice.

"The famine is bad for me and for everyone."

"Today, I'm eating [at] the hospital. Once I get better, I will go back to these centres no matter what. I'm the sole breadwinner for the whole family."

According to the UN human rights office, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to get food aid over the past two months.

Israel has accused Hamas of instigating the chaos near the aid sites. It says its troops have only fired warning shots and that they do not intentionally shoot civilians.

The GHF says the UN is using "false" figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.

• Read Emir Nader's full report here.

The families of Israeli hostages in Gaza say they are "deeply concerned" that Israel's negotiating team have been recalled from ceasefire talks in Qatar without securing a truce.

In recent weeks Israel and Hamas have been holding indirect talks in the capital city Doha, but the two sides are yet to agree to a deal.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters say, in a statement, that "negotiations have dragged on for far too long" and "each day that passes endangers the hostages’ chances of recovery".

"Another missed opportunity to bring all 50 hostages back would be inexcusable," the statement adds.

They are urgently calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli officials to provide an immediate update on the negotiations and what is preventing a deal.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says it is recalling its team of ceasefire negotiators in Doha, Qatar, to Israel.

In a statement, the PM's office says: "In the light of the response given by Hamas this morning, it has been decided to return the negotiating team to Israel for further consultations.

"We appreciate the efforts of the Qatari and Egyptian mediators and the efforts of envoy Witkoff to bring about a breakthrough in the talks."

Earlier this month Palestinian officials told the BBC that negotiations between Israel and Hamas in Qatar on a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal were on the brink of collapse.

Elsewhere, US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff is in Italy today to meet senior Israeli and Qatari officials to discuss the possibility of a Israel-Hamas truce.

For aid to arrive into the hands of Palestinians in Gaza, it is not straightforward.

Since the war began in October 2023, some aid has been able to pass into the territory through a handful of militarised crossing points.

But even if lorries carrying supplies can get in, without the cooperation of Israeli authorities they can't get much further.

Aid groups say there is no shortage in the supply of food, but accuse Israel of obstructing it and making it virtually impossible for humanitarian assistance to reach millions of people who desperately need it.

Instead, truckloads sit untouched in warehouses, external while not far away, aid groups say, Gazans face mass starvation.

Israel denies this, and blames UN agencies and "the collection bottleneck" as the main obstacle for supplies getting into Gaza.

Earlier this year, the Israeli military blockaded the entry of aid trucks into Gaza for 11 weeks, it said, to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages.

Not longer after that, Israel and the US backed a controversial organisation called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to bypass the UN and act as the main distributor of aid in Gaza.

The GHF, unlike the UN, uses private security contractors to distribute supplies from sites in Israeli military zones. It's a system Israel and the US say is necessary to stop Hamas from stealing aid.

But aid organisations have also roundly condemned the scheme, which the UN says has seen more than 1,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces while trying to collect food.

And according to the World Health Organization, a large proportion of the population of Gaza is starving.

Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, reporting from Beirut

International news organisations rely on local reporters within Gaza as Israel has banned foreign media, including the BBC, from entering the territory.

In the statement we reported on earlier, the BBC and three leading news agencies said those journalists were now facing the same dire circumstances as the people whose lives they report on, and that it was essential that adequate food supplies reached people there.

The UN and aid agencies say Palestinians face mass starvation in Gaza as a result of Israel’s policies – something Israel denies, despite the evidence.

Both Israel and Hamas are under pressure to strike a ceasefire deal.

But key differences remain, including over the distribution of aid and details of Israel’s withdrawal. Talks aimed at securing a truce are expected to take place between US and Israeli officials in Italy later.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has just released a breakdown of data related to famine and malnutrition in the strip.

In an earlier update, the ministry said another two people have died of malnutrition in the past 24 hours.

The BBC has been unable to independently verify the statistics, but the ministry's data is widely regarded as accurate by international organisations like the World Health Organization:

• Of the 113 people who died from malnutrition since October 2023, 81 were children and 32 were adults
• 260,000 children under the age of five are in need of nutrition
• There have been 1,556 pre-term births linked to malnutrition so far in 2025
• More than 28,600 cases of child malnutrition have been registered so far in 2025
• 100,000 pregnant women and nursing mothers are impacted by food shortages

Jordan Kenny
BBC Newsbeat

I've been speaking to aid worker Tahani Shehada who says people in Gaza "are just trying to survive hour-by-hour, not day-by-day".

She says that "even simple things like cooking [and] taking a shower have become luxuries".

It’s now a daily occurrence for her to go to work without food, she says. "I keep going because I have to," Tahani adds.

"I have a baby. He’s eight months old. He doesn’t know what fresh fruit tastes like."

Image source, Tahani Shehada

Tahani says that since the war started, aid organisation Anera has managed to get 1,700 lorries into Gaza, but only 10 "have been let through lately - barely anything compared to what’s needed".

Israel says crucial supplies are waiting to be delivered - but aid organisations say they’re being blocked from distributing them.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been giving out food, while the UN says more than 1,000 people have been killed by Israel's military while trying to collect aid.

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The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) says one in every five children in Gaza City is now malnourished.

Philippe Lazzarini says in a post on X that most children seen by Unrwa teams are "emaciated, weak and at high risk of dying if they don’t get the treatment they urgently need".

"Parents are too hungry to care for their children", he says, adding that "this deepening crisis is affecting everyone".

Unrwa frontline health workers are "surviving on one small meal a day, often just lentils", he says, highlighting reports of staff fainting from hunger while at work.

Lazzarini adds that Unrwa has "the equivalent of 6,000 loaded trucks of food and medical supplies" waiting in Jordan and Egypt. He urges Israel to allow "humanitarian partners to bring unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian assistance to Gaza".

As we've been reporting, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says the total number of deaths in Gaza caused by malnutrition since 7 October 2023 has risen to 113.

Mass starvation across Gaza is causing a "dire situation", the UN says, while Gazans have been telling the BBC they fear they will be shot if they attempt to reach aid distribution sites.

As a reminder, the UN has said at least 1,054 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while seeking food since 27 May, when a new aid method run by the US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began.

The UN also said 766 people were killed "in the vicinity" of GHF sites and 288 others "near UN and other humanitarian organisations’ aid convoys" up until 21 July.

The GHF uses private security contractors to distribute aid from sites in Israeli military zones.

Israel and the US say the system is necessary to stop Hamas from stealing aid, but the UN refuses to co-operate with it - describing it as unethical and saying no evidence has been offered of Hamas systematically diverting aid.

Ibrahim Shareef Alashi, a dentist in Gaza City, tells the BBC that "every day" he sees malnourished patients, including children, "who are suffering from hunger".

He says that he and his team usually have one meal a day. He says that "bread and flour are not available" at a local market.

This is not because people don't have any money, he explains, but because "there is nothing to buy" at the market.

He says that among his patients are a mother and her son aged around seven years old: "She told us he hadn't eaten any food for about three days. The boy was very weak, very dizzy."

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say a projectile was launched from Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, and fell near an aid distribution site in Rafah on Wednesday.

The US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distributed "tens of thousands of weekly food packages" in Rafah on Thursday, following the projectile launch, the IDF said on Telegram.

In a post on X, the IDF says "Hamas and the other terrorist organisations will do anything to sabotage civilians from receiving aid".

Earlier this week, the UN's Human Rights Office said that more than 1,000 people have been killed by Israeli forces since the GHF began operations on 27 May.

The health ministry in Gaza has just released a statement on the number of people reported to have died as a result of malnutrition.

The Hamas-run health ministry recorded two new deaths due to famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours - bringing the total number of deaths to 113, it said.

Earlier this week, UN Secretary General António Guterres said Gaza's 2.1 million population was facing grave shortages of basic supplies, malnutrition was "soaring" and "starvation is knocking on every door" in Gaza.

BBC News has just released a joint statement alongside news agencies AP, AFP and Reuters calling on Israel "to allow journalists in and out of Gaza".

Here is the statement in full:

“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. For many months, these independent journalists have been the world’s eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering.

“Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them.

“We once again urge the Israeli authorities to allow journalists in and out of Gaza. It is essential that adequate food supplies reach the people there.”