Gaza, famine
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Senate Democrats are imploring President Donald Trump's administration to step up its role in addressing suffering and starvation in Gaza.
Israel's prime minister is facing growing international pressure to end the war in Gaza that has killed more than 60,000 Palestinians. A leading food crisis group is now warning of widespread famine in Gaza as deaths from starvation rise.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was the first Republican in Congress to use the term to describe the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. But others in the MAGA movement have expressed growing concern about Israel.
Aid agencies say many Gazans are hungry and malnourished. Amal Nassar says her family is among them, and price gouging is making things worse.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) became the first congressional Republican to label the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip a “genocide” on Monday after President Donald Trump acknowledged that Palestinians are starving.
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Gaza health care workers face starvation alongside their patients, Doctors Without Borders warns
Gaza health care workers are fainting from hunger while treating patients, with medical staff eating once every two days as humanitarian crisis worsens.
The U.N.-developed panel, known as IPC, said conditions “worsened dramatically” in recent months, with food consumption at its lowest level since the conflict began.
The announcement comes as severe acute malnutrition continues to rise across Gaza. One-fifth of children are currently affected, and up to half of those may not survive, Dr. Zaher Sahloul, co-founder and president of MedGlobal, told “NewsNation Now” on Monday.