In past 24 hours, 144 Palestinians killed in Gaza: Ministry
Gaza’s Ministry of Health says at least 144 bodies and 560 wounded have arrived at hospitals over the past 24 hours. The toll includes four bodies that were retrieved from under rubble.
Since Israel broke a truce agreed with Hamas in March, at least 5,334 Palestinians have been killed and more than 17,800 have been wounded.
Israel “is once again preventing international and UN organisations from accessing fuel storage sites designated for hospitals, claiming they are located in red zones,” the ministry said, adding that available fuel supplies in hospitals are sufficient for three days.
'Simply apocalyptic' and 'too risky': Papers react to Gaza aid distribution deaths
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With the press focused on news of the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating.
The New York Times reports that seeking aid has gotten "just too risky" for some Gazans. "I'll never try again" reads the headline, quoting one Palestinian man who says he saw many dead and injured people while trying to get aid. He tried to get supplies twice and didn't manage to get anything both times, the paper reports.
According to The New York Times, more than 70 Palestinians were killed on Monday and Tuesday while trying to reach aid distribution points. Left-wing French daily Le Monde headlines with "In Gaza, humiliation and death to get food". The paper says that dozens of people die every day while trying to reach aid. The paper then talks about a video filmed on June 11 of starving Gazans on their feet for hours, waiting for the start of the aid distribution. When it finally begins, Le Monde describes an image of a "wild, desperate stampede". An Israeli activist interviewed by the paper describes the video as "simply apocalyptic", saying that "this is the hell we've created in Gaza".
Finally, the British daily The Guardian has an editorial on what it calls "Gaza's engineered famine". "Stop arming the slaughter – or lose the rule of law", writes the paper. It says that while Palestinians starve, Western governments "defend Israel and dismantle the very rules they claim to uphold".
