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Bombings, risk of “famine”, displaced population … What situation in Gaza before the new Israeli offensive?

The humanitarian situation is getting worse in Gaza since Israel has recovered in mid -March its war against Hamas. In addition to the numerous deaths of civilians and the blockade of international aid, the project to travel to the unworthy population of the international community.

Israel will go “in the end.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday, May 13 that the Army would soon enter “all its strength” in the Gaza Strip, which already controls widely.

“There will be no situation in which we stop war,” he warned, simply evoking the possibility of “temporary truce” to guarantee the release of hostages always retained in Gaza.

Since he resumed his war against Hamas on March 18the Israeli government on the right and the extreme right faces growing international criticisms, Particularly to block the vital help for gazaouis that immerses the territory in a “humanitarian disaster” according to the UN. On Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron described Israel’s action as “shame”, causing the anger of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Bombings

Israeli army bombings make dozens of deaths every day in a Palestinian territory already devastated for almost 19 months of war. The Palestinian civil defense identified at least 80 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes and another 103 on Wednesday, May 15 on Wednesday, May 15 on Wednesday, May 15.

These bombings bring to 52,928 the total number of deaths in the Palestinian territory from the attack of Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, according to figures from the Ministry of Health of Hamas considered reliable by the UN. Among these victims, 2,300 have lost their lives since the break and the resumption of fights on March 18.

“In the space of almost 18 months of war, it was said that more than 15,000 children were killed and more than 34,000 others wounded,” UNICEF also recalls.

Women are collected near the bodies of the victims of Israeli bombings at the Beit Lahia hospital on May 14, 2025 in Gaza © Bashar Taleb / AFP

A population travel project

On May 5, Israel announced a new military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which provided for the “conquest” of the Palestinian territory. This campaign will require the internal displacement of the “majority” of its inhabitants, according to the Army, which says that it recalled “tens of thousands of reservists.”

“We have established an administration that will allow them to leave, but the problem on our side is reduced to one thing: we need countries ready to welcome them. This is what we are currently working on,” said Benjamin Netanyahu.

“If we offer you the possibility of leaving, I tell you that more than 50% will leave, and even more think. But Hamas will no longer be there,” he added, remembering that one of the objectives of the war was to destroy the Palestinian Islamist movement.

Israel benefits from the total support of the United States, whose president dreams of making the “Riviera du Middle East” enclave. This Thursday, Donald Trump said he wanted the United States to “take” the Gaza Strip to be a “freedom of freedom.”

The inhabitants have been subjected from the beginning of the war to incessant displacements according to the operations of the Israeli army. Currently, 71% of the territory of Gazaoui is occupied by Israeli soldiers and/or concerned with the army evacuation orders, according to the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs.

A “massive hunger” risk

No more humanitarian aid has entered the Palestinian territory, no matter how vital that for the 2.4 million gazaouis living there since March 2, and many organizations, including doctors in the world, doctors without borders or Oxfam, have warned about the risk of a “mass famine” if the help blockade by the Israeli army continues. The World Food Program, like other NGOs, announced a few days ago that “exhausted all its actions” on the spot.

The integrated food security classification, which is authorized in the classification of situations of food insecurity, spoke of “a critical famine risk” in its latest report published on May 12. For the period from April 1 to May 10, the Consortium, which classifies the level of food insecurity according to the five levels, 37% of the joys were in crisis (level 3), 44% in food insecurity according to level 4). “disaster” situation (level 5).

To decree level 5, when establishing proven famine, at least 20% of the population must suffer an extreme food shortage, one in three children must suffer acute malnutrition and two people (or four children) of 10,000 must die every day of hunger or a disease related to malnutrition.

A food distribution in Beit Lahia in the Gaza strip on May 15, 2025
A food distribution in Beit Lahia in the Gaza strip on May 15, 2025 © Bashar Taleb / AFP

The situation deteriorates day by day. Doctors Sans Frontières tell AFP that their medical teams on the site “observed a 32% increase in the number of patients with malnutrition symptoms in the last two weeks.”

According to a recent report by the doctors of the world, malnutrition affects particular mothers and their babies. “Almost one in a minor baby from one in four and almost 20% of pregnant and breastfed women seen in our health centers suffer from acute malnutrition,” Léa Gauthier, defense of the French NGO, told BFMTV.

These figures can fall quickly if Israel ends the blockade, insists on humanitarian aid. Therefore, “we saw after the entry into force of the truce, the rates of acute malnutrition in children range from 17 % in November 2024 to 2.7 % in February 2025”.

A base under Israeli control to administer help?

An NGO, created from scratch and supported by the United States, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), announced Wednesday that it intended to start distributing help in the Gaza Strip besieged by Israel at the end of May.

The Foundation ensures that in its application as Israel “it has agreed to increase the number of distribution points to serve the entire Gaza population, and find solutions for the distribution of civil aid that cannot reach a distribution point.”

But the initiative awakens the wrath of humanitarian organizations. “We fear a total domain of the Israeli authorities and the army on the distribution of humanitarian aid, with much fear of the impartiality of aid,” deplora Léa Gauthier of the doctors of the world. “We, our only criteria, are the needs. But we know that it will not be the case for the Israeli authorities and for this alleged foundation.”

In addition, humanitarian aid specifies that this practice would be “contrary to international humanitarian law that establishes that odd organizations such as ours can have access to populations that need it.”

MSF sees in this “Israeli Plan for the control of humanitarian aid” one “no more towards the eradication of the Palestinians in Gaza”, according to a statement published Wednesday.

The knee health system

The situation of health systems is critical of Gaza. “The health structures that still work, already insufficient in number and capacity for the population, continue to be attacked and are called to break the stock of medicines and other essential supplies,” MSF summed up in their press release.

The last supplies that MSF teams could transmit to Gaza were three medical supplies trucks on February 27. “Help efforts have remained limited by the mandatory and non -transparent requirements of the Israeli authorities in terms of prior authorization, often by rejection of double -use articles of double use items such as escampels, scissors, oxy concentrators, umialitation of injectors.

In the act, the dramas follow each other. “There are not enough beds, or drugs and no processing means,” said AFP Mohammad Awad, an emergency artist at the Indonesian hospital near Jabalia. “Many injured die from lack of attention,” he said, describing bodies “lying on the ground, in the hospital runners.”

Unable to treat properly and properly injured, caregivers are victims of scarcity. “Whether it is Gazaouis or our colleagues, many people are forced to drink water that cannot drink or less salt water to reserve the few liters of drinking water that they can still find for children or for the elderly,” illustrates Léa Gauthier.

Author: François Blanchard
Source: BFM TV

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