Hunger

Gaza aid shipments resume as Hamas backs down from extortion threats targeting private merchants

Merchants previously suspended truck coordination activities in protest of a tax threatened by Hamas, wherein the terror organization demanded payments of approximately NIS 10,000 per truck.

Children gather and play on a water truck in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on September 23, 2026. The Emergency Committee of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry recently held a protest, warning that shortages of tires, oil, and spare parts are disrupting the operation of these water trucks.
Paul Mackenzie, a Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers, who were members of the Good News International Church, to starve themselves to death in Shakahola forest, appears in court for his judgement at the Mombasa High Court, Kenya, October 19, 2026.

Doomsday preacher convicted of mass murder of 190 children, starvation deaths in Kenya cult case

Carl Skau, Acting Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), visits a soup kitchen funded by the WFP, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip October 18, 2026.

World Food Programme cuts aid to 500,000 Palestinians in Gaza, citing funding shortages

Dr. Yaron Zelekha, chairman of the New Economic Party, and Yoaz Hendel, chairman of the Reservists Party, hold a press conference announcing their joint run in the upcoming general elections, in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2026.

Israelis aren’t afraid of Iran, they’re afraid of supermarket prices, Zelekha says - interview


UN rapporteur joins weekly hunger strike over Iran's execution surge and protest crackdown

“The death penalty is being used against people for exercising the rights of freedom of assembly, association, and expression, as well as their political rights,” she said.

Cars burn in a street during a protest over the collapse of the currency's value, in Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2026.

Ex-UN director who protested Gaza famine challenges his dismissal

Benjamin Davis, 62, was one of the hundreds of employees who joined in moments of silence for hunger victims in Gaza.

Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen after the global hunger monitor, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), said that Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine that will likely spread, in Gaza City, August 28, 2025.

Hunger increasing in Yemen, record number of people unable to meet food needs, WFP warns

Yemen is experiencing the most serious escalation between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-aligned Houthi group since a UN-brokered truce largely halted cross-border attacks ​in 2022.

A girl carries a jerrycan as displaced people living in temporary shelters receive food aid in Al-Khawkhah, in Yemen's western Hodeidah province, on July 30, 2026.

UNICEF warns of severe child deprivation in Lebanon as displacement, economic tolls mount

“Without urgent and sustained action, an entire generation of children and young people risks carrying the scars of this crisis into adulthood,” UNICEF Lebanon Representative Marcoluigi Corsi said. 

Displaced Lebanese children play in the playground of a public school that has been converted into a shelter in the town of Dekwaneh, north of Beirut on March 25, 2026.

Climate change is stripping nutrients from food, global study with Israeli expert warns

"This is not a distant threat to health," Prof. Asaph Aharoni told the Post, saying up to two-thirds of the world's population already lacks essential micronutrients.

ASAPH AHARONI

The mistake you make in the morning: Why are you hungry just an hour after eating?

Feeling hungry a short time after breakfast? It is possible that the problem is not with the amount of food, but rather with its composition.

A healthy breakfast

The man who couldn't watch Israel throw its food away: The story of Leket Israel

From a leaky trunk to Israel's national food bank: Joseph Gitler on waste, "startup nation poverty," and feeding families after Oct 7.

Studies show that sometimes between 8 to 15 exposures are required before a new food moves from "strange" to "acceptable"

World Food Programme slashes Syria aid, affecting 7.2 million as funding crisis deepens

The World Food Programme has halved emergency food aid in Syria due to funding shortages, leaving millions vulnerable despite signs of stabilization.

Workers prepare AIS boxes at a World Food Programme (WFP) facility in Damascus countryside, Syria, July 29, 2025.

WFP warns tens of millions could face acute hunger if Iran war continues

The US-Israeli attacks on Iran that began on February 26 have choked up key humanitarian aid routes, delaying life-saving shipments to some of the world's worst crises.

Afghan men queue to receive packages of fortified biscuits distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) organisation in the Laja Mangal district of Paktia province on March 16, 2026.

About 6.5 million people in Somalia face acute hunger due to drought, government and UN say

Somalia declared a national drought emergency in November after years of failed rains, with the UN World Food Programme last week announcing cutbacks to its assistance.

Internally displaced Somali men pray before Iftar outside their makeshift shelter after fleeing drought in the Lower Shabelle region to the camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, February 20, 2026.