Israel Eases Gaza Aid Curbs, Hoping to Defuse Hunger Outcry.

"Israel rolled back curbs on aid distribution to Gaza over the weekend in an effort to defuse a growing international outcry over hunger convulsing the shattered Palestinian enclave.

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The UN World Food Program has warned for weeks that the entire population of 2.1 million people in the Gaza Strip faces crisis levels of food insecurity. Scores of aid groups say starvation is fast spreading.

That’s seen world anger toward Israel’s government on the rise amid increasing reports and images of emaciated babies, children crammed into soup queues, and men tussling over bags of flour."

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Mahmoud Mardawi, a senior Hamas official, described the about-face on Telegram as “not a solution, but rather, a belated and twisted confession of a crime having been committed.”

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Recovering the remaining hostages, however, would have required Israel commit to ending the war and fully withdrawing, Hamas said. Israel has ruled that out so long as Hamas, which is on terrorism blacklists in much of the West, retains weaponry and rules in Gaza.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, a far-right member of Netanyahu’s coalition government, said he was excluded from the decision to restore UN aid. His ideological kinsman, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, also opposes pausing the assault on Hamas and wants a total Gaza takeover — even if that poses a risk to the 20 hostages believed to be still alive."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-27/israel-lifts-some-gaza-aid-curbs-in-bid-to-defuse-hunger-outcry?srnd=homepage-americas