SHOTLIST:

- CHICAGO, US (JULY 26, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL)

1. PROTESTERS GATHERING ON MICHIGAN AVENUE IN DOWNTOWN CHICAGO

2. PROTESTERS CHANT SLOGANS

3. PROTESTERS HOLDING BANNERS CONDEMNING ISRAEL'S GENOCIDAL WAR ON GAZA STRIP

4. PROTESTERS BEATING POTS AND PANS

5. PROTESTERS MARCHING CHICAGO, US - JULY 26: Protesters gathered on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago on Saturday, July 26, to demand an end to Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Organized by the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine, the demonstration featured participants beating pots and pans to symbolize what they said is "the U.S.- and Egyptian-supported Israeli starvation of Gaza."

Several community groups, including the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), took part in the protest.

Gaza’s hunger crisis has spiraled into a humanitarian catastrophe. Harrowing footage shows severely emaciated residents, some reduced to skin and bone, collapsing from exhaustion, dehydration and prolonged starvation.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday that five more Palestinians, including two children, have died from hunger and malnutrition in the last 24 hours, pushing the death toll since October 2023 to 127, including 85 children.

On Tuesday, the World Food Program warned that one in every three people in Gaza had gone without food for several days due to the ongoing Israeli blockade.

Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, killing more than 59,700 Palestinians, most of them women and children. The relentless bombardment has destroyed the enclave and led to food shortages.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.