Updates: UN runs out of food aid in Gaza amid Israel’s total blockade

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For more on the UN’s warning that food supplies are “depleted” in Gaza, check out our story here.

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We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of the day’s main events:

• The UN’s World Food Programme says food stocks have been depleted due to Israel’s weeks-long blockade on the coastal territory, raising fears of famine.
• UNRWA says nearly 3,000 aid trucks are ready, but have been prevented from entering Gaza due to the blockade.
• Gaza’s Government Media Office says the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel has risen to 212 since the war began in October 2023.
• The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, also known as UNRWA, says the multiple forced displacement orders issued by the Israeli military have left Palestinians “with less than a third of Gaza’s area to live in”.
• Al Masirah TV is reporting that one woman has been killed and one wounded in a US air attack in Saada governorate in Yemen.

University students have staged a demonstration at Place du Pantheon in Paris in support of Palestinians in Gaza, calling for justice and urging French universities to cut ties with Israeli institutions, Anadolu news agency is reporting.

Demonstrators also demanded economic sanctions against Israel and carried Palestinian flags while chanting slogans such as “Free Palestine” and “Boycott Israel”.

Munther Isaac, the pastor of the Christmas Lutheran church in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, says Palestinian Christian families in Gaza expressed feeling “like orphans” after the pontiff’s death.

Pope Francis, whose funeral will be held tomorrow, had made nightly phone calls to Christian leaders in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s bombardment of the enclave. He also had condemned Israel for its “cruelty”.

“This is a pope who genuinely cared, who called [Gaza] on a daily basis, who understood the reality of life under occupation,” Isaac told Al Jazeera. “In the war on Gaza, he wasn’t shy to call out crimes for what they are, terror.”

The pastor added that Francis stood out for being someone who “was not afraid of speaking truth to power at a time when we see so many timid statements from church leaders”.

British MP Shockat Adam has returned from a trip to the occupied West Bank with a stark warning.

See what he had to say in the video below:

Philippe Lazzarini has warned that Palestinian children in Gaza are starving due to Israel’s blockade.

“The Government of Israel continues to block the entry of food + other basics,” the head of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said on X. “A manmade & politically motivated starvation.”

#Gaza: children are starving.

The Government of Israel continues to block the entry of food + other basics.

A manmade & politically motivated starvation.

Nearly 2 months of siege.

Calls to bring in supplies are going unheeded. pic.twitter.com/leqPwWikZe

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) April 25, 2025

A new survey has found that 71 percent of likely Democratic Party primary voters believe “the US should restrict military aid to Israel until it stops attacks on civilians in Gaza, supports Palestinian rights, and commits to a long-term peace process”.

Twenty percent said the US should continue providing military assistance to its ally while urging Israel to reduce civilian harm, according to the survey, which was conducted by Zeteo and Data for Progress.

The US provides at least $3.8bn in military support to Israel annually – an amount that has grown by several folds since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza.

Successive US administrations have worked to shield Israel from criticism and accountability at international forums, including by vetoing UN Security Council resolutions against Israeli abuses.

Former US President Joe Biden had faced widespread criticism from his Democratic Party base for his administration’s Gaza policy, earning him the moniker “Genocide Joe”.

WHO chief Tedros has described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “an awful and grim moment”, citing the latest announcement by the WFP that its food supplies within Gaza have been completely depleted.

“WFP food supplies inside the Strip have run out, even though there is enough food to feed a million people positioned in aid corridors but cannot reach those in need,” he said in a post on X.

Medical supplies are also dwindling, with 16 WHO trucks carrying vital resources awaiting entry into Gaza, he added.

“This aid blockade must end. Lives depend on it,” Tedros warned.

Israel has maintained an eight-week blockade on food, medicine and aid entering Gaza, while continuing aerial attacks on homes and tent shelters – deepening what the UN describes as the war’s “worst humanitarian crisis”.

We've reached an awful and grim moment in #Gaza.@WFP food supplies inside the Strip have run out, even though there is enough food to feed a million people positioned in aid corridors but cannot reach those in need.

The situation is the same with medical supplies. They are… https://t.co/I8udakt0UK

— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) April 25, 2025

Al Masirah TV is reporting that one woman has been killed and one wounded in a US air attack in Saada governorate in Yemen that targeted a home in an area east of the Sahar district.

US forces have also conducted four raids in the Ras Isa area in as-Salif district in the Hodeidah governorate, and one raid in the al-Tawila district in the al-Mahwit governorate.

Let’s bring you up to speed with the latest developments:

• Israeli army has carried out a series of attacks across Gaza and issued new forced evacuation orders for three areas in the north of the territory.
• UNRWA says nearly 3,000 aid trucks are ready, but have been prevented from entering Gaza due to Israel’s weeks-long blockade.
• Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank town of Salem, east of Nablus.
• The US has carried out four raids in Yemen’s Saada governorate, Houthi-affiliated media outlet Al Masirah TV has reported.

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that Israeli warplanes have launched raids on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and Jabalia camp in the north.

Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military issued a forced evacuation threat for Palestinians residing in three areas in northern Gaza before what it said was a planned strike.

Hamas released a statement regarding Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank:

• Settler attacks and brutal crimes in West Bank are a continuation of the escalating war of extermination against our people in Gaza.
• Settler attacks accelerate the implementation of the occupation’s plans for annexation and displacement.
• The escalating settler crimes call for further igniting anger and confronting all attempts to end the Palestinian presence.
• We call on the people of the West Bank and its revolutionary youth to confront the settlers’ attacks and mobilise to repel their attacks, which are carried out under the protection of the occupation.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on global leaders to act to end Israel’s siege on the Gaza Strip, which is “resulting in the intentional starvation of women, children and the elderly”.

CAIR said the US government, in particular, is “complicit in this unconscionable campaign of forced starvation”.

“That complicity must come to an end,” it said.