Displaced Gaza families face acute shortages of food, medical supplies during Ramadan

Gaza's humanitarian crisis remains severe as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan got underway.

Despite a ceasefire, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are struggling to survive amid critical shortages of food, clean water and medical supplies.

For displaced families in Gaza, Ramadan began inside fragile tents rather than their homes.

Raed Hajjaj lives with his family in a tent. Securing food has become a daily concern. With no stable source of income, they depend almost entirely on charity kitchens and humanitarian assistance.

"We are a family of seven. We receive one food parcel every week or ten days, if we succeed in getting it. We are living like beggars, relying on charity kitchens, food parcels, or even just a bundle of bread. Honestly, this is not enough at all," said Hajjaj.

For many displaced Palestinians, fasting from food during the day is not new. As Raghdah Hajjaj explained, hunger has already become part of their daily reality, even before Ramadan began.

"Ramadan has come, and I swear tonight we shared half a box of cheese with a little fava beans with my children. We divided the cheese between us [so] we could all have something. And we thank God for that," she said.

As the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, United Nations organizations have warned that ongoing restrictions on the entry of basic supplies are increasing the suffering of hundreds of thousands of displaced people and undermining efforts to provide even minimum assistance.

"Whilst 1.5 million have lost their homes and are staying in damaged tents, they are in bad need of basic assistance. Israel continues restricting the entry of basic supplies in all humanitarian sectors, food, water, medical supplies and hygiene items," said Amjad Al-Shawa, general director of the Palestinian NGO Network.

Displaced Gaza families face acute shortages of food, medical supplies during Ramadan

Displaced Gaza families face acute shortages of food, medical supplies during Ramadan

Displaced Gaza families face acute shortages of food, medical supplies during Ramadan

The Lianghekou hybrid pumped storage hydropower station marked two milestones on Sunday, completing excavation of its underground powerhouse and beginning concrete pouring for its downstream reservoir, bringing the mega clean‑energy project in Sichuan Province closer to completion.

Located on the Western Sichuan Plateau at an altitude of 3,000 meters, the facility uses the Lianghekou Reservoir, the province's largest, as its upper reservoir and the Yagen Level‑1 Hydropower Station reservoir as its lower reservoir. It is equipped with four reversible units of 300,000 kilowatts each, operating jointly with the 3 million kilowatts conventional units of the Lianghekou project to reach a total installed capacity of 4.2 million kilowatts.

Once completed, the plant will combine natural runoff power generation with bidirectional regulation through pumped storage.

The underground powerhouse, described as the project's "power heart," is buried about 500 meters beneath the mountain. Stretching nearly 200 meters in length and 60 meters in height, it reaches a maximum depth of 650 meters, serving as the core hub of the development.

This high-altitude green-energy "super power bank" is rapidly taking shape and is expected to play a vital role in strengthening clean-energy supply security and enhancing grid regulation capabilities in China.

World's largest hybrid pumped-storage power project under construction in Sichuan