Malnutrition rates reach alarming levels in Gaza
Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July.
Gaza continues to face a critical risk of famine.
Of 74 malnutrition-related deaths in 2025, 63 occurred in July – including 24 children under five, a child over five, and 38 adults. Most of these people were declared dead on arrival at health facilities or died shortly after, their bodies showing clear signs of severe wasting.
Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July.
Gaza continues to face a critical risk of famine.
Of 74 malnutrition-related deaths in 2025, 63 occurred in July – including 24 children under five, a child over five, and 38 adults. Most of these people were declared dead on arrival at health facilities or died shortly after, their bodies showing clear signs of severe wasting.
The crisis remains entirely preventable. Deliberate blocking and delaying of large-scale food, health, and humanitarian aid have cost many lives.
Nearly one in five children under five in Gaza City is now acutely malnourished, as reported by Nutrition Cluster partners. Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM), which measures the percentage of children aged 6–59 months suffering from acute malnutrition, has tripled since June, making it the worst-hit area in the Gaza Strip. In Khan Younis and the Middle Area, rates have doubled in less than one month. These figures are likely an underestimation due to the severe access and security constraints preventing many families from reaching health facilities.
So far in July, over 5000 children under five have already been admitted for outpatient treatment of malnutrition in just the first two weeks, 18% of them with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), the most life-threatening form. This continues a significant rising trend since May, with 6500 children.
The ongoing wars in Gaza have caused unimaginable destruction in these parts of the world. Thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced. Both of these places have faced famine. Children and women have been the primary victims of these devastating wars.
In Gaza, we will provide Hot meals to over 4,400 people daily.
The aim of our Gaza Food Pack is to provide a family with enough provisions that will last them at least a month, providing daily food and nutrition requirements. Our food packs aim to provide both macronutrients (such as fat and protein) and micronutrients (such as vitamins) in line with common international standards.
A typical family food pack contains cereals (rice, wheat, maize, sorghum or millet). Pluses include lentils, cowpeas, beans and yellow split peas.
Where possible, we aim to source food from local suppliers.
DONATE TO HELP US PROVIDE EMERGENCY AID INSIDE GAZA
The collapse of the ceasefire on March 18th has had a catastrophic impact on children and families throughout Gaza and the wider State of Palestine. The devastation on children is profound. With aid being heavily restricted, Gaza is now on the brink of famine. Time is running out. The blockade on aid must be removed completely.
Widespread hunger has led to rising levels of malnutrition, including acute malnutrition: a condition where children become dangerously thin and prone to disease due to a lack of adequate food.
How can you help people in Gaza?
A donation from you will help us provide the following three critical services inside Gaza.
Emergency Food
Clean Drinking Water
Psychological Support and Treatment
How is Muntada Aid Supporting People in Gaza?
We are currently running food, water and healthcare services in Gaza.
About Our Clean Drinking
Water Programme in Gaza
Muntada Aid is currently supplying clean drinking water tankers to
hundreds of people inside Gaza daily. With the help of our
partners on the ground, we provide clean water to displaced communities.
Your donations help us provide this essential service.
Muntada Aid PTSD Clinic in Gaza
Muntada Aid, in partnership with Palestine Trauma Centre, runs a Post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) centre for children and young adults in Gaza.
PTC UK provides support and training on the ground in Gaza both in-person
and via technology, ensuring that help is never too far away.
Is Aid Getting into Gaza?
It is over 3 months since the Rafah border was closed for humanitarian aid. It was a critical route to transport into Gaza.
Since October 2023, when the war broke out, the Rafah border has remained one of the main crossings. The closure of this crucial route is not just exacerbating, but significantly worsening an already dire situation. Only a tiny portion of aid is reaching Gaza, leaving the Muntada Aid team in Gaza delivering lifesaving aid with much-reduced resources.
Land-based delivery through the south of Gaza remains the most effective way to deliver aid. These roads are the main arteries for aid delivery and so have the most significant capacity.
Is There Famine in Gaza?
A high risk of Famine persists across the whole Gaza Strip as long as conflict continues and humanitarian access is restricted.
About 96 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip (2.15M people) face high levels of acute food insecurity through September 2024.
While the whole territory is classified in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), over 495,000 people (22 percent of the population) are still facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 5). In this phase, households experience an extreme lack of food, starvation, and exhaustion of coping capacities.
745,000 people (33 percent) are classified in Emergency (IPC Phase 4).
State of Health Services in Gaza
The healthcare system in Gaza has all but collapsed. Most hospitals have closed due to damage, insecurity or lack of fuel and supplies.
Health workers have faced unimaginable challenges over the last ten months.
Since hostilities escalated, hundreds of medical and humanitarian workers have lost their lives while trying to deliver essential medical care and aid.
Homelessness in Gaza
A million people have been forced to evacuate Rafah since the start of May, and people have been displaced up to six times. There is nowhere safe in Gaza for people to go, and nowhere that can adequately meet people’s basic needs.
Many have sought shelter in Rafah, having already been displaced multiple times along the way. Men, women and children have walked for days past horrific scenes of death and destruction, sometimes losing family members throughout the journey.
People are struggling to live with dignity in makeshift tents next to waste or sewerage areas; many are sleeping in the open, or trying to cover themselves with cardboard and scraps of wood.
Those able to find a space in a displacement camp have just one square metre per person. Many shelters lack sufficient ventilation and over half are soaked by water and rain - infectious diseases are spreading rapidly, and vulnerable people are dying.
How to help people in Gaza
The best way to help people in Gaza is by donating to our emergency appeal.
Muntada Aid team is working with various communities in Gaza supporting people affected by the war and for many years before that.
Where Will Your Money Go?
The donations made to the Gaza Appeal provide food, emergency aid, and trauma support. We are not using the contributions for any other appeal. We are serving people in Gaza through our partners on the ground, and we will continue to provide this support as long as possible.
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