The United Nations is warning that famine in Gaza is “almost inevitable.” Palestinians living in Gaza are struggling with extreme shortages of food, clean water, and medicine. Several countries, including Jordan, France, Egypt, the U.S., the United Arab Emirates, and now Germany, are coordinating airdrops of humanitarian aid to help alleviate the crisis, and the U.S. military is working to a build a temporary port on Gaza’s coastline to bring in additional aid. Critics have pointed out that airdrops and a temporary pier are insufficient, dangerous, and haphazard operations compared with ensuring a steady and reliable supply of aid delivered by trucks, which might be achieved by a cease-fire agreement. Gathered below are recent images from the growing crisis in the Gaza Strip.
. Skip to the next and previous photo by typing j/k or ←/→.
-
Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 5, 2024. #
Mohammed Salem / Reuters Read more -
Parachutes carry humanitarian aid packages to the ground, after being dropped from a plane, as Palestinians wait to receive them in Gaza City on March 9, 2024. #
Mahmud Isa / Anadolu / Getty Read more -
A view of makeshift tents set up by Palestinians that migrated to the south of the Gaza Strip in search of safety, in Rafah, on February 24, 2024. #
Abed Zagout / Anadolu / Getty Read more -
Palestinian children collect wood, paper and cardboard to use as fuel, scavenging through the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks, in Gaza City, on March 5, 2024. #
Dawoud Abo Alkas / Anadolu / Getty Read more -
Palestinian children who took refuge in Rafah city due to Israeli attacks carry food distributed by charitable organizations in Rafah, Gaza on February 19, 2024. #
Abed Zagout / Anadolu / Getty Read more -
Tthis picture taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip shows a military aircraft dropping humanitarian aid over the Palestinian territory on March 12, 2024. #
Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty Read more -
This image grab from an AFPTV video shows Palestinians running toward parachutes carrying food parcels, airdropped from U.S. aircraft onto a beach in the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2024. #
AFP / Getty Read more -
A Palestinian woman who took refuge in the city of Rafah bakes bread over a wood fire inside a makeshift tent on February 18, 2024. #
Abed Zagout / Anadolu / Getty Read more -
A Palestinian boy who is suffering from malnutrition receives treatment at a healthcare center in Rafah on March 4, 2024. #
Mohammed Salem / Reuters Read more -
Children wait for hours in distribution lines to gather enough water and food for their families, in Rafah on February 25, 2024. #
Abed Zagout / Anadolu / Getty Read more -
Masked members of the so-called "Popular Committees of Protection" patrol the streets of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on March 6, 2024. These groups have sprung up in Rafah in recent days, acting to maintain security and control skyrocketing prices of food items in street markets. #
Said Khatib / AFP / Getty Read more -
Palestinians carry bags of flour from an aid truck near an Israeli checkpoint in Gaza City on February 19, 2024. #
Kosay Al Nemer / Reuters Read more -
An aerial view of makeshift tents set up in the El-Mavasi district of Rafah, Gaza, on February 9, 2024. #
Abed Zagout / Anadolu / Getty Read more -
A picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing during an Israeli bombardment over Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 11, 2024. #
Said Khatib / AFP / Getty Read more -
A Palestinian family who left their homes due to the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has their sahur (pre-dawn) meal with za'atar, pepper sauce, a few pieces of bread, and tea, during the holy month of Ramadan at the Salah al-Din shelter in Gaza on March 12, 2024. #
Dawoud Abo Alkas / Anadolu / Getty Read more -
Palestinians hold empty containers while they line up to receive food being distributed by aid organizations, on the second day of Ramadan in Rafah, on March 12, 2024. #
Jehad Alshrafi / Anadolu / Getty Read more -
Men salvage bread found amid the rubble of the Abu Anza family home that was destroyed in an overnight Israeli air strike in Rafah on March 3, 2024. #
Said Khatib / AFP / Getty Read more -
A U.S. Air Force plane drops humanitarian aid for Gaza residents, in this screengrab from a video released on March 5, 2024. #
U.S. Central Command via X / Reuters Read more -
People watch as the U.S. military carries out its first aid drop over Gaza on March 2, 2024. #
Kosay Al Nemer / Reuters Read more -
Displaced Palestinians take shelter in a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in Rafah on March 3, 2024. #
AFP / Getty Read more -
A group of volunteer Palestinian women in Gaza are preparing food to distribute to families who fled Israeli attacks and took refuge in Rafah, as part of preparations for the upcoming holy month of Ramadan, on March 10, 2024. #
Jehad Alshrafi / Anadolu / Getty Read more -
Palestinians share an Iftar meal, the breaking of fast, on the first day of Ramadan, at a camp for displaced people in Rafah on March 11, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. #
Said Khatib / AFP / Getty Read more We want to hear what you think about this article. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.
- © Ian Ford, 2024 Sony World Photography Awards
- In Focus
- March 12, 2024
- 21 Photos
Winners of the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition
A collection of some of the winning and shortlisted photos from this year’s competition
- Peter White / Getty
- In Focus
- March 8, 2024
- 35 Photos
Photos of the Week: Snowy Soccer, Crouching Spider, Pain Simulator
Humanitarian aid air-dropped into Gaza, the funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, a blizzard in California, a parade of effigies in Bali, and much more
- Buyenlarge / Getty
- In Focus
- March 5, 2024
- 32 Photos
100 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1924
Images of some of the events and sights around the world in the year 1924
- Carlos Perez Gallardo / Reuters
- In Focus
- March 1, 2024
- 35 Photos
Photos of the Week: Jet Suit, Surf Horse, Giza Camel
Unusually warm weather in Turkey, a volcanic eruption in Mexico, sledding in Morocco, displaced Palestinians in Gaza, under-ice swimming in Italy, and much more
TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2024 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All Rights Reserved.
login
who are we?
contact us
qosheapp
Toi Staff
Gideon Levy
Belen Fernandez
Andrew Mitrovica
Mort Laitner
Rami G Khouri
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
Nikkei Editorial
visit website
