‘Starvation threatens 700,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza’
- 25-Feb-2024
UNITED NATIONS: The world is watching in silence as the Palestinians are dying of hunger amid escalating Israeli war against Gaza, a civil defence spokesperson in the besieged enclave said on Saturday. In a statement, Spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that the Palestinian people were dying every day “under the light of a suspicious Arab and […]
Allow more relief trucks into besieged Gaza or risk starvation: UN
- 16-Jan-2024
UNITED NATIONS: The Israeli authorities have continued to block lifesaving aid from reaching northern Gaza 102 days since the eruption of the conflict on Oct 7, UN humanitarian officials insisted, just as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that “the long shadow of starvation” stalks the people in the Palestinian enclave. “In the first two weeks […]
Everyone is hungry in Gaza now, UN says amid relentless Israeli bombing
- 03-Jan-2024
The UN Relief Agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, and the UN World Food Programme, WFP, have warned about the threat of starvation and disease in heavily built-up areas, where tens of thousands of people have fled intense Israeli bombing campaigns in the enclave’s north and centre. “Everyone in Gaza is hungry! Skipping meals is the norm, […]
Covid crisis: Unemployed Indian family faces nearly 10-day starvation
- 16-Jun-2021
A six-member family in Aligarh's Nagla Mandir area faced severe food and water shortage for nearly 10 days after the breadwinners were deprived of their jobs due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Prolonged curfew created starvation-like situation in held Kashmir: AJK president
- 30-Aug-2019
Azad Jammu Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan on Thursday said that prolonged curfew has created starvation-like situation in occupied Kashmir.
India to investigate death of schoolgirl by starvation
- 17-Oct-2017
NEW DELHI: India ordered an investigation on Tuesday into whether the death of a young girl was caused by a government error that saw her family denied food rations. The girl’s mother and social welfare activists said the 11-year-old from Jharkhand state died of starvation last month after officials refused to give the family food […]
Spectre of starvation haunting globe: report
- 31-Mar-2017
ROME: Record prices, conflicts and extreme weather combined to drive the number of people vulnerable to starvation up to 108 million last year, according to a UN and EU-backed report published Friday. The global total of people deemed “severely food insecure” represents a 35 percent increase on the 80 million considered to be in that […]
‘Seven million Yemenis do not know where their next meal will come from’
- 21-Feb-2017
UNITED NATIONS: Seven million Yemenis are closer than ever to starvation, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the country warned Tuesday, almost two years since a conflict escalated between the government and rebels. “Seven million Yemenis do not know where their next meal will come from and are ever closer to starvation” in a country of […]
In Yemen war, hospitals bombed to rubble, starvation spreads
- 10-Feb-2016
DUBAI: Elderly Hamama Yousif was rushed to the main hospital in one of Yemen's largest cities after an artillery round lashed her chest with shrapnel, only to find that the doctors there had run out of the oxygen tanks needed to save her life.
Tharparkar toll reaches 230 after four more deaths
- 21-Dec-2014
MITHI: Four more children perished due to starvation in the drought-stricken Tharparkar on Sunday, taking the death toll to 227, ARY News reported.