Middle East crisis: 25 foreign ministers issue joint call for ‘flood’ of aid into Gaza – as it happened

Published on August 12, 2025 at 04:02 PM
Middle East crisis: 25 foreign ministers issue joint call for ‘flood’ of aid into Gaza – as it happened

Representatives from countries including UK, Australia and France say that humanitarian suffering has reached ‘unimaginable levels’

In a post on X, Israel Defense Forces claim to have “debunked” what it called Hamas’s “starvation campaign” in Gaza.

The IDF said that reviews of documents showed that most deaths by malnutrition in Gaza were linked to “severe pre-existing conditions” and that only a handful of the 133 deaths by malnutrition claimed by Gaza’s authorities in July could be “verified”. The post said that the “expert review concluded that there are no signs of a widespread malnutrition phenomenon among the population in Gaza”.

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