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WHO urges safe, sustained aid access as famine deepens in Gaza

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday renewed its call for safe and sustained access to food and medicines in the Gaza Strip, warning that famine is tightening its grip on the territory.

August 26, 2025 at 8:00 am

10-year-old Amna Mustafa Abdullah Ma’ruf receives limited treatment for severe malnutrition at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, located in the central Gaza Strip amid Israeli blockade and intense attacks on September 03, 2025. [Alaa Y. M. Abumohsen – Anadolu Agency]