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SvennoJ on 30 May 2025
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Israel aid blockade making Gaza ‘hungriest region on Earth’: UN

Israel is blocking all but a trickle of humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said, with almost no ready-to-eat food entering what its spokesperson described as “the hungriest place on Earth”.

Spokesperson Jens Laerke said only 600 of 900 aid trucks had been authorised to get to Israel’s border fence with Gaza, and from there a mixture of bureaucratic and security obstacles made it all but impossible to safely carry aid into the region.

“What we have been able to bring in is flour,” he told a news conference. “That’s not ready to eat, right? It needs to be cooked … 100 percent of the population of Gaza is at risk of famine.”


Desperate scenes as Palestinians shot at while trying to get aid

Israeli forces have opened fire on desperate civilians this morning, who have gathered on Salah al-Din Street in a desperate attempt to get food from recently established food aid distribution centres, run by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

It’s desperate to see similar scenes every single morning.

At least 20 Palestinians have been reported wounded, according to medical sources. In a separate incident, one Palestinian was shot and injured by Israeli snipers close to Rafah city as he was approaching the designated distribution point.

The number of Palestinians killed in the past 72 hours while trying to get aid has reached 10, and such repeated incidents highlight the serious and severe dangers Palestinians face to get aid.


Death toll in Gaza since Israel’s war began reaches 54,321

We’ve gotten an update from the Health Ministry in Gaza, which says at least 54,321 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war on the enclave since October 2023. The ministry also reported that:

  • Another 123,770 Palestinians have been wounded since October 7, 2023.
  • At least 72 deaths and 278 injuries have been reported to hospitals in Gaza over the past 24 hours, not including hospitals in the north of the enclave.
  • “A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, unable to be reached by ambulance and Civil Defence crews.”
  • Since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18, at least 4,058 people have been killed and 11,729 others have been injured.


Gaza death toll may be much higher than reported, new research shows

A new study suggests the death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza may be much higher than official figures. Al Jazeera’s Hind Touissate spoke to Francesco Checchi, one of the researchers involved in a statistical analysis, who says the number could be as high as 95,000.

Probably even higher. The 'official' death toll is only the bodies that made it to a hospital. All those left under the rubble, buried in mass graves, buried by family members, eaten by dogs and those 'disappeared' are not included in the count.