Israeli attacks kill 92 Palestinians in Gaza so far today
At least 92 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Thursday so far, Palestinian health officials say.
Today’s death toll includes 64 people killed in Gaza City and the north of the Strip, as well as 16 killed while seeking aid near the Netzarim Corridor in northern Gaza.
More than 5,100 children treated for malnutrition in Gaza in May: UNICEF
The UN’s child rights agency has warned that childhood malnutrition is rising at at “alarming rate” in the bombarded Palestinian territory, as Israel continues to block most aid from entering Gaza.
UNICEF said that 5,119 children aged between six months and five years old were admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition last month alone. That’s a nearly 50 percent increase from the number of child admissions in April.
“In just 150 days, from the start of the year until the end of May, 16,736 children – an average of 112 children a day – have been admitted for treatment for malnutrition in the Gaza Strip,” Edouard Beigbeder, the agency’s Middle East and North Africa director, said in a statement.
“Every one of these cases is preventable. The food, water, and nutrition treatments they desperately need are being blocked from reaching them. Man-made decisions that are costing lives,” he said.
“Israel must urgently allow the large-scale delivery of life-saving aid through all border crossings.”
Palestinian children try to get food at a charity kitchen in central Gaza in May
‘Lives of Palestinians are being completely abandoned’
A Bedouin man makes tea inside a tunnel under a bridge that he and his family use amid a lack of public shelters for Palestinians in Israel
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has said that about 50 percent of the Palestinian citizens of Israel do not have access to public shelters to seek safety amid Iranian missile attacks.
Palestinians make up about 20 percent of the Israeli population, numbering about two million people.
B’Tselem noted that in Tamra, a city in northern Israel where four members of a Palestinian family were killed by a missile fired from Iran this week, about 37,000 residents do not have access to a single public shelter.
“In southern Israel, around 85,000 Bedouin citizens live in villages unrecognised by the state. Some of these areas are designated by the Israeli military as ‘open terrain’ – and receive no protection from missile interception systems or even siren alerts. Most of the villages lack any safe rooms, and authorities have even opposed placing portable shelters,” the group said on X.
“In the occupied territories: in the West Bank and certainly in Gaza, the situation is far worse – residents are not only left unprotected against foreign missile attacks but are also defenceless in the face of … Israeli daily attacks.”
