Israel to allow air drops of aid, as Gazans die of starvation

以色列将允许空投援助物资,加沙地带居民因饥饿而死亡

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2025-07-27

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Israel says it will allow aid drops into Gaza by air, saying Jordan and the United Arab Emirates could facilitate. This comes as at least 5 people are reported to have died from malnutrition in the last day, bringing the total to 127 since the beginning of the war. Also on the programme, Iran is tackling a severe water crisis; and, one of Lebanon's most celebrated composers, Ziad Rahbani, has died. (Photo: Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza City, July 26, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa)
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  • This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.

  • And we begin the programme with the frankly heartbreaking descriptions of starvation coming from medics in the Gaza Strip.

  • In the past 24 hours, at least five more people have died of malnutrition.

  • That's 127 since the war began, 85 of them children.

  • These are according to figures recorded in the few remaining health centres overseen by the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.

  • But aid workers warn that the level of acute malnutrition has now reached a tipping point.

  • in Gaza and they expect more deaths to follow.

  • Children are especially vulnerable.

  • 21 months into this conflict,

  • for many it's been weeks since they had anywhere near normal levels of nutrition.

  • An Israeli plan to allow airdrops of aid have been described as inefficient and dangerous by the head of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees,

  • Philippe Lazarini.

  • We'll have more on that in a moment.

  • First though, Dr Rana Soba, a pediatrician nutritionist working in Gaza,

  • told us how the children she treats are being affected by malnutrition.

  • I work on therapeutic treatments for children under five also.

  • Some of those children can no longer walk or speak for extreme wasting.

  • Actually a child who should be laughing and playing is now sitting quietly in the corner with empty eyes,

  • bald face and no voice.

  • The bust of a few weeks we have seen a sharp increase in cases of acute malnutrition.