Update on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza

Bar Rapaport July 2025
Update on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza All Publications / The Gaza Campaign

Update on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza 21.7.2025: Hospitals in Distress, Dangerous Aid  Distribution, Hundreds of Trucks Stuck 

The Israeli Humanitarian Forum for Gaza – which includes Israeli humanitarian and aid organizations such  as Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies – received alarming updates yesterday from  international relief organizations operating in the Strip, indicating a severe deterioration in humanitarian  conditions on the ground, and asking for help: 

1. The GHF distribution has many problems. One issue being that it brings in food in  insufficient quantities creating a massive pressure on its distributions. The distribution  model is fundamentally unsafe by drawing people to these areas that are ostensibly  secured by IDF but then patrolled by unknown security contractors with no clear RoE or  responsibilities.  

2. Dozens are killed and wounded per day at the GHF sites. This week the ICRC again posted  on social media (like X) documentations of patients coming dead or passing out or  severely wounded at their Rafah Field Hopsital.  

3. The aid operation is not fair and equal. The GHF and UAE (the Emirites) can come in and  out of Gaza, but others cannot. Do we know for sure that the GHF and UAE are actually  meeting the goals they say they are? Meanwhile the UN announced that more than 700  trucks are stuck in Kerem Shalom, because they will be looted – again a result of this  system that lets in too little. Because such limited quantities come in, the pressure is too  high and it generates looting (which is also a result of a vacuum/absence of any security  throughout Gaza)  

4. Today, some hospitals reported to us that they have had to stop providing food to  patients’s families and in some cases even to reduce food for the patients themselves,  because there is not enough food in the strip. 

Numerous testimonies from the ground – from organizations, photos, and direct witnesses – confirm that  in Gaza today, at the most critical points, there is no food. Reports note a rising number of children  hospitalized with malnutrition, the closure of bakeries and distribution centers, and more. 

The causes of the shortage are varied: fuel shortages, ongoing violence, insufficient aid quantities, looting,  and a deepening crisis in the months following the ceasefire. 

The bottom line: we are at a critical moment that requires an immediate humanitarian reaction: There  is an urgent need to find the fastest and most effective way out of this emergency – either through a  humanitarian ceasefire or through agreements that enable food to reach the people at the edge of  survival.

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