More Than 100 Aid Groups Warn of Starvation in Gaza and Call For Action
(July 23, 2025)
In an open letter, 115 human rights and aid organizations warned that “mass starvation” was spreading across Gaza and called for Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid.
As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, more than 100 humanitarian organizations have issued an urgent call to governments worldwide to end the Israeli-imposed siege and allow for unrestricted delivery of life-saving aid.
Humanitarian workers, once the providers of aid, are now standing in lines for food aid alongside the communities they serve. This is not because the UN-led humanitarian system failed, but because it has been prevented from functioning. Medical supplies, food, clean water, and fuel sit idle in warehouses as humanitarian organizations are blocked from accessing or distributing them, while conditions on the ground continue to deteriorate.
“Each morning, the same question echoes across Gaza: Will I eat today?” said one agency representative.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—a militarized distribution scheme by the Israeli government—began operations two months ago. The United Nations confirms that at least 875 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food, including 201 on aid routes. Deaths at distribution sites occur nearly every day.
Doctors report unprecedented rates of acute malnutrition, particularly among children and the elderly. An aid worker providing psychosocial support spoke of the devastating impact on children; “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.” The starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime and must be prevented.
Despite recent pledges from the EU and Israel to scale up aid, on-the-ground realities remain unchanged. Aid trucks entering Gaza average just 28 per day—woefully insufficient for over two million people in urgent need. With nearly two million Palestinians displaced and confined to less than 12% of Gaza, the World Food Program now warns that humanitarian operations are “untenable.”
It is time for governments to take decisive action: demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire; lift all bureaucratic and administrative restrictions; open all land crossings; ensure access to everyone in all of Gaza; reject military-controlled distribution models; restore a principled, UN-led humanitarian response and continue to fund principled and impartial humanitarian organizations. States must pursue concrete measures to end the siege, such as halting the transfer of weapons and ammunition.
Signatories:
1. American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
2. A.M. Qattan Foundation
3. A New Policy
4. ACT Alliance
5. Action Against Hunger (ACF)
6. Action for Humanity
7. ActionAid International
8. American Baptist Churches Palestine Justice Network
9. Amnesty International
10. Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz
11. Associazione Cooperazione e Solidarietà (ACS)
12. Bystanders No More
13. Campain
14. CARE
15. Caritas Germany
16. Caritas Internationalis
17. Caritas Jerusalem
18. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
19. Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM)
20. CESVI Fondazione
21. Children Not Numbers
22. Christian Aid
23. Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP)
24. CIDSE- International Family of Catholic Social Justice Organisations
25. Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud (CISS)
26. Council for Arab‑British Understanding (CAABU)
27. DanChurchAid (DCA)
28. Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
29. Development and Peace – Caritas Canada
30. Doctors against Genocide
31. Episcopal Peace Fellowship
32. EuroMed Rights
33. Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)
34. Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V.
35. Gender Action for Peace and Security
36. Glia
37. Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)
38. Global Witness
39. Health Workers 4 Palestine
40. HelpAge International
41. Human Concern International
42. Humanity & Inclusion (HI)
43. Humanity First UK
44. Indiana Center for Middle East Peace
45. Insecurity Insight
46. International Media Support
47. International NGO Safety Organisation
48. Islamic Relief
49. Jahalin Solidarity
50. Japan International Volunteer Center (JVC)
51. Justice for All
52. Kenya Association of Muslim Medical Professionals (KAMMP)
53. Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation
54. MedGlobal
55. Medico International
56. Medico International Switzerland (medico international schweiz)
57. Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
58. Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)
59. Medicine for the People – Belgium (MPLP/GVHV)
60. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
61. Médecins du Monde France
62. Médecins du Monde Spain
63. Médecins du Monde Switzerland
64. Mercy Corps
65. Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
66. Movement for Peace (MPDL)
67. Muslim Aid
68. National Justice and Peace Network in England and Wales
69. Nonviolence International
70. Norwegian Aid Committee (NORWAC)
71. Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
72. Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA)
73. Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
74. Oxfam International
75. Pax Christi England and Wales
76. Pax Christi International
77. Pax Christi Merseyside
78. Pax Christi USA
79. Pal Law Commission
80. Palestinian American Medical Association
81. Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF)
82. Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS)
83. Peace Direct
84. Peace Winds
85. Pediatricians for Palestine
86. People in Need
87. Plan International
88. Première Urgence Internationale (PUI)
89. Progettomondo
90. Project HOPE
91. Quaker Palestine Israel Network
92. Rebuilding Alliance
93. Refugees International
94. Saferworld
95. Sabeel‑Kairos UK
96. Save the Children (SCI)
97. Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund
98. Solidarités International
99. Støtteforeningen Det Danske Hus i Palæstina
100. Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER)
101. Terre des Hommes Italia
102. Terre des Hommes Lausanne
103. Terre des Hommes Nederland
104. The Borgen Project
105. The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM)
106. The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P)
107. The International Development and Relief Foundation
108. The Institute for the Understanding of Anti‑Palestinian Racism
109. Un Ponte Per (UPP)
110. United Against Inhumanity (UAI)
111. War Child Alliance
112. War Child UK
113. War on Want
114. Weltfriedensdienst e.V.
115. Welthungerhilfe (WHH)
Sources: Text from: Over 100 Humanitarian Organizations Call for Immediate Ceasefire and Unimpeded Aid Access in Gaza,
Action Against Hunger, (July 23, 2025)..
List of signatories from: Palestine: As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away,
Doctors Without Borders, (July 24, 2025).
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