{"id":294224,"date":"2025-07-26T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294224\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:06:13","slug":"live-updates-hunger-rises-in-gaza-as-aid-groups-condemn-israeli-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294224\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Hunger rises in Gaza as aid groups condemn Israeli blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/37530166-10122344-generated-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Videos geolocated by CNN showed crowds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks as they arrived in northern Gaza on Friday. The scenes come amid a deepening starvation crisis that has already claimed more than 127 lives since the conflict began, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. &lt;\/p&gt;\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chaos and gunfire as Palestinians crowd aid trucks amid starvation crisis\n                <\/p>\n<p>Chaos and gunfire as Palestinians crowd aid trucks amid starvation crisis<\/p>\n<p>00:47     <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdk9j30y00063d5t133oopl5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Horn blaring, a truck swerves down a dusty road in northern Gaza at high speed, carrying a group of people clinging onto what appear to be white sacks of aid.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdkagei4000i3d5tzv82padj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Moments later, one of the men is flung from the vehicle onto the ground \u2014 as another clings to the roof of the truck \u2014 shortly followed by the sound of gunfire.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdkagei4000j3d5tob0zwenz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The scene, captured in a social media video geolocated by CNN to the north-west of Gaza City, provides an insight into the chaotic state of aid distribution in the territory amid a deepening starvation crisis. CNN cannot confirm the exact nature of the incident nor the motives of the individuals approaching the vehicle.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdkagei4000k3d5tur1x5qsv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In another video geolocated to the same area of northern Gaza, more gunfire rings out as a group of men surround and climb on top of the truck.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdkagei4000l3d5tc20lr36l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            On Saturday, Al-Sharafi Brothers, a transport company in Gaza, issued a plea to Palestinians to avoid approaching aid trucks in \u201cunsafe areas,\u201d to protect their own safety and that of others.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdkch79m000x3b6n5wyg01db@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It said that, due to instructions issued by Israel, aid truck drivers are unable to stop except in designated safe areas.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdkckemw000z3b6ncz62fzoa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <strong>For context:<\/strong> The Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, created to replace the United Nations\u2019 aid role in Gaza, has been criticized for failing to improve conditions as starvation spreads\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdk91yph00013b6nf83xvcpr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Additionally, Israel has denied creating famine in Gaza and accused Hamas of \u201cengineering\u201d food shortages.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chaos and gunfire as Palestinians crowd aid trucks amid starvation crisis Chaos and gunfire as Palestinians crowd aid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-294224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114921576679071967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}