One in five Gazans are expected to face starvation in the coming months, and children are especially at risk of severe malnutrition.

Autism has long been overlooked in Gaza and is often not acknowledged as a condition that requires specialized care and services. In addition, Israel’s suffocating siege and restrictions on medical referrals made it extremely difficult for families to send their children abroad for treatment.

A pediatrician and mother of 10 is mourning the deaths of nine of her young children after an Israeli airstrike hit their home in the war-torn Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is the linchpin of a new aid system that would wrest distribution away from aid groups led by the U.N., which have carried out a massive operation moving food, medicine, fuel, tents and other supplies across Gaza since the war began in October 2023.

Before the war, it was rare in Gaza to see anyone searching through garbage for anything, despite widespread poverty