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  • Publication | 2025
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights:

  • Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza  marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths.
  • Life expectancy at birth reportedly declined by approximately 35 years in 2024. This represents a greater collapse in longevity than that recorded during the genocide in Rwanda, where life expectancy at birth declined from age 42.9 years in 1993 to age 12.2 years in 1994.
  • Since October 7, 2023, Gaza has recorded more child deaths than any other conflict zone and has the highest number of children with amputations per person in the world.
  • Between October, 2023 and May, 2025, there were 720 documented attacks on health-care targets, including 125 health facilities, 34 hospitals, and 186 ambulances.
  • Gaza has recorded the highest numbers of health-care worker fatalities (over 1400 deaths), UN staff deaths (295 deaths), and journalist fatalities (212 deaths) in any recent conflict zone.
  • Starvation is being used repeatedly and relentlessly as a weapon of war. Leading human rights organisations, UN agencies, and UN Special Rapporteurs have officially recognised the genocide in Gaza. This position is also supported by a broad and distinguished group of genocide scholars.