Israeli attack kills 7 people waiting for aid in Gaza City: Report
Israeli forces have reportedly again attacked Palestinians waiting for aid trucks at the Kuwait Roundabout south of Gaza City, killing seven people, the Wafa news agency reports. More than 20 people injured in the attack were transferred to the Shifa Medical Complex, Wafa added, quoting medical sources.
Gaza City is in the north of the Gaza Strip, which has been almost completely cut off from aid, with only a small amount of trucks reaching the city from Rafah in the south. It's the fourth such attack on people waiting to receive aid at the Kuwait roundabout.
Eight killed in Israeli attack on Deir el-Balah residential home
At least eight people have been killed and a number are still missing under the rubble after an Israeli attack on the Abu Sanjar family home in Deir el-Balah.
Attacking aid seekers in Gaza is become new normal
People have been calling the Kuwait Roundabout on Salah al-Din Street a death trap. Hunger, starvation and dehydration don’t stop people from getting together to wait for aid. They’ve been displaced and traumatised from the start of this genocidal war.
Nine people have been killed so far in the latest incident. The initial number was seven and two just died at al-Shifa Hospital as there is no proper medical intervention. The other 20-plus injuries in the hospital are likely to lose their lives because their injuries are very severe and the hospital doesn’t have the capacity to provide life-saving treatments. It has been nonoperational since it was stormed and damaged by the Israeli military in the past three months.
This has unfortunately become the new normal for aid seekers and hungry Palestinians stranded in the northern part of Gaza City. We’ve seen this happening almost on a daily basis now. People get together, wait for food supplies and get attacked by the Israeli military.
Aid seekers death toll rises to 11
The Kuwait Roundabout is between the central area of the Gaza Strip and Gaza City, where people gather in large groups to wait for aid trucks. So far, at least 11 people have been reported killed as a result of direct attacks by the Israeli tanks stationed around the area, and multiple injuries, close to 25, with different injuries, as we were told by paramedics at al-Shifa hospital.
Gaza media office: More than 400 killed by Israeli fire while waiting for aid
The Gaza media office says that the latest Israeli attack on people waiting for aid at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City this morning has resulted in more than 400 people killed since the “flour massacre” in late February.
“The occupation army insists on targeting those searching for a living for their children to satisfy their hunger,” the office said in a statement.
Israeli forces attacking outskirts of Deir el-Balah
Since the early morning, Israeli tanks have been hitting the eastern outskirts of Deir el-Balah. At least four Israeli air strikes have targeted the same areas. We are also clearly hearing gunfire and fighting. People in Deir el-Balah, where more than half a million are taking shelter, are frightened and panicked from a deeper Israeli ground invasion that will force them into further displacement.
“We don’t have anywhere to go. All that we have is to stay and wait for our turns to be killed,” Hussain al-Ramlawi told Al Jazeera. “What is happening is beyond any human’s capability. My children are terrorised. Even in Ramadan, we are being killed and are unable to worship God. Where are the human rights organisations? Living in this world as Palestinians is a curse.”
Healing through play to support the mental health of Palestinian children
Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza has left many children in desperate need of psychological support, with about half of its population under the age of 18 and showing signs of deep trauma.
One project in the al-Mawasi camp near Khan Younis has become a sanctuary for many Palestinian children, and every day hundreds of them arrive at the centre to dance, play games and lose themselves in activities that restore a sense of normalcy.
Children in Gaza suffer from ‘complete psychological destruction’
Without urgent action, Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip will inflict further lifelong detrimental mental harm to Palestinian children, with rapidly shrinking opportunities to recover, a report by Save the Children said.
The report notes that before October 7, children in Gaza were already living with exceptionally poor mental health due to the 16 years of a blockade, lack of freedom of movement, various Israeli escalations on the Strip, economic collapse, and separation from family and friends.
“It is unacceptable that any child should contend with the horrors that those in Gaza have lived through,” said Jason Lee, Save the Children’s Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territories. “While dodging bombs and bullets, fleeing through streets littered with debris and corpses, being forced to sleep in the open air and going without the basic food and clean water they need to survive, children in Gaza are going through a period of mass-scale shock and grief.
“This war and the physical and mental scars it is leaving on children is further eroding their resilience.”
