Nearly 2 million people, about 90% of Gaza's population, have been "displaced and living in overcrowded, unsafe conditions."

On the morning of May 15, Miran Mohammad was helping her grandfather bake bread at his home in Beit Lahia, a town in northern Gaza. Given the scarcity of food, the 7-year-old Miran was hungry and was eager to have a piece of the freshly baked bread. She wouldn’t get the chance.

As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to exacerbate, children sat in lines on the side of the road on Tuesday waiting for any food.

"In hunger crises, children are always amongst the most vulnerable," said Scott Paul, American director of peace and security for Oxfam, one of the humanitarian aid groups providing aid in Gaza. And for cases of severe acute malnutrition, "You can't just bake a loaf of bread."

The starvation of Gaza can be measured in the jutting ribs of a 6-year-old girl. In the twig-like thinness of her arms. In the pounds she and those around her have lost. In the two tomatoes, two green chili peppers and single cucumber a destitute child can buy to feed his family that day.

Six hundred days after the start of the war in Gaza, UNICEF's Edouard Beigbeder asks, 'How many more dead girls and boys will it take?"

On Tuesday, a coalition of faith leaders, community organizers, and union leaders came together in downtown Albuquerque to call on Congressional delegates to continue humanitarian aid for Gaza.

Two months ago, King Abdullah II of Jordan pledged to take in 2,000 sick Palestinian children from Gaza, but Kennedy said Jordan “took 44, and then they’ve cut us off.” “I would encourage him to put the welfare of these children first and put the ...