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SvennoJ on 02 June 2025
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Instead of bread, ‘they gave him a bullet in his head’

Among those wounded on Sunday was Shuaib Abu Tayr, a father of four. He was shot in the head and is now “between life and death” at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, according to his sister-in-law Asmaa Abu Salah.

“He went for food and drinks for his children. His children need food, [they say] ‘we want food, dad’. This is the most difficult word,” she said.

“He went to get aid [distributed by] the US. He went to get a loaf of bread. Instead of giving him a loaf of bread, they [Israelis] gave him a bullet in his head … We responded to the US forces to come for aid, in order for [Palestinians] to get flour and food for the children and the young people, all of us are dying of hunger.”

This is famine parallel to genocide’

Gaza’s civilians face impossible choices: risk Israeli drone strikes at US-backed aid sites or starve as food prices soar and markets empty. The new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, replacing UNRWA, is accused of weaponising aid, with distribution points becoming “death traps”.

Hospitals battle malnutrition-induced anaemia, leaving even blood donors too weak to contribute. “This is famine parallel to genocide,” says one woman, describing hours-long queues for scraps of food.


Aid distribution being sabotaged by Israeli forces: PNGO chief

Amjad Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), has spoken to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic about the US-backed Israeli aid distribution system currently in place in the coastal enclave.

Here are his translated comments:

  • The so-called aid centres are merely military outposts serving the agenda of the Israeli occupation.
  • The occupation is working to sabotage the previous aid distribution systems.
  • The deterioration of humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip is unprecedented worldwide.
  • The occupation caused famine to force people to seek aid centres.
  • The occupation forces shoot at civilians near aid centres with the intent to kill.


Hospital in southern Gaza overwhelmed amid ongoing Israeli attacks: MSF

Claire Menara, an emergency coordinator with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, says the staff are working in dire conditions, facing severe shortages of medical supplies.

“There is no room for all of the patients. We have patients in corridors… and more come in today, dead and wounded,” she told Al Jazeera.

“The cases are critical, and we don’t have enough supplies to treat them because of the [Israeli] blockade that has been going on now since March 2.”

Menara added that hospital staff were donating their own blood to help keep patients alive.

“We can’t continue like this. We need an immediate and sustained ceasefire and to be able to give aid at scale,” she added.


Gaza hospitals face imminent shutdown as fuel shortages worsen

Marwan al-Hams, the director of field hospitals at Gaza’s Health Ministry, has provided our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic with an update about the dire healthcare situation in the coastal enclave.

Here are his translated comments:

  • Most hospitals will soon shut down due to fuel shortages.
  • We cannot provide a single morsel of bread for hospital patients or doctors.
  • We call on the world to provide protection for the hospitals in the Gaza Strip.