The level of hunger is really what’s heartbreaking,' and it's getting worse, said a Texas surgeon visiting Gaza for the third time.

Soon after arriving at a Gaza City hospital, Texas surgeon Mohammed Adeel Khaleel examined a 17-year-old with gunshot wounds sustained when he went to an aid site.

The White House has not commented on a report finding famine in Gaza. Analysts say that absent U.S. pressure, Israel is unlikely to change course.

Representative Greene has grown increasingly vocal about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as famine spreads in the enclave.

Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan has written to U.S. President Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, and urged her to contact Israel's prime minister and raise the plight of children in Gaza, authorities in Ankara said on Saturday.

Advocates are renewing calls for Canada to recognize a genocide in Gaza following the release of a new report. A joint media investigation using the Israeli military's own data found at least five out of every six people killed by Israeli forces in the Israel-Hamas war have been civilians.

Satellite images taken over and around Gaza City point to preparations for the expanded military operation and show signs internally displaced people are already fleeing.

Famine has struck an area of Gaza and will likely spread over the next mont h, a global hunger monitor determined on Aug. 22, 2025. The assessment will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the war-torn Palestinian enclave,