Photos show Palestinians struggling for food as famine grips Gaza’s largest city
Palestinians struggle to get food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Original Publication Date: August 22, 2025 2:10AM
Publication Updated: August 22, 2025 3:04AM
The world’s leading authority on food crises said Friday it has determined that famine is occurring in Gaza City, and is likely to spread to other cities without a ceasefire or an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid. The Israeli military agency for aid coordination denied there is famine in Gaza and called the new findings biased. Here is a look at The Associated Press’ photo documentation of hunger in Gaza over the past months.
Read more about the famine determination here. ___
This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
Palestinians carry sacks of flour taken from a humanitarian aid convoy in the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Fadi Sobh gives lentil soup to his children as they sit in their tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Palestinians carry sacks of flour taken from a humanitarian aid convoy in the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped by parachutes into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)A Palestinian youth carries a sack of aid that landed in the Mediterranean Sea after being airdropped over central Gaza, at the shore of Zawaida, Gaza Strip, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Palestinians struggle to collect humanitarian aid airdropped into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)A Palestinian shouts to the camera in Arabic, “We get food with the taste of death and blood,” as he carries a bag containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Palestinians ride on a truck loaded with food and humanitarian aid from the World Food Program, after it arrived in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Palestinians carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid, unloaded from a World Food Program convoy in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)The mother of Anas Al-Basyouni mourns after her son was killed on his way to an aid distribution center, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Palestinians wait for donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, July 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Somoud Wahdan looks at the camera while she and her child wait for trucks of humanitarian aid to arrive in Gaza City, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Palestinians struggle to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – A morgue worker prepares the body of 5-month-old baby, Zainab Abu Halib, who died from malnutrition-related causes, according to Dr. Ahmed al-Farah, head of the pediatric department at Nasser Hospital, before her funeral in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)Humanitarian aid is airdropped over Gaza City, Gaza Strip, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Palestinians are carried after they were wounded while trying to reach trucks carrying humanitarian aid on the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Seven-month-old Salem Awad, suffering from severe malnutrition, lies on a mattress in his family’s tent in Gaza City, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Samah Matar poses for a photo with her sons, Yousef, 6, in her arms, and Amir, 4, affected by malnutrition and cerebral palsy, at a U.N.-run school in Gaza City, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Palestinians mourn during a funeral for family memebers who were killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza Strip, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Aug. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid airdropped into Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Aug. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)A Palestinian man waves a pistol as others struggle to collect humanitarian aid airdropped into Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)The body of 5-year-old Jamal al-Najjar is placed on the ground atop bricks before a funeral prayer after he died at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. The head of Nasser’s pediatrics unit said Jamal, who was born with rickets, died from severe malnutrition. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)An aircraft airdrops humanitarian aid to Palestinians over Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)
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