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Women’s Refugee Commission, ‘“I Starve Myself So My Children Can Eat”: The Gendered Impacts of Food Insecurity and Famine in Gaza’, 2025
Abstract
This report documents the gendered impacts of Gaza’s food insecurity and famine crisis and provides actionable evidence for policymakers and humanitarian actors. Drawing on secondary data, key informant interviews, and testimonies from women, the report describes in detail the ways in which women and girls in Gaza are disproportionately at risk of hunger and starvation. The research also illustrates how aid blockades and militarized food distribution mechanisms systematically exclude women and girls. It concludes that Israel’s suppression of a professional humanitarian response, coupled with mass casualties and continuous forced displacement, exacerbates pre-existing gender inequalities in Gaza and has resulted in a psychological collapse that may last for generations.
