Gaza official says 17,000 children suffer from malnutrition in enclave
The director of medical relief in Gaza tells our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues that the situation in the Strip is getting worse for children. “We expect a large number of children to die from malnutrition unless a serious intervention occurs,” he said.
“Pressure must be put on the occupation to allow the entry of baby milk and medicine,” the official said, adding that “many surgeries have been postponed due to a shortage of staff, medical supplies, and medicine.”
In past 24 hours, 72 Palestinians killed in Gaza: Ministry
Gaza’s Ministry of Health says at least 72 bodies and 174 wounded people have arrived at hospitals over the past 24 hours.
Since Israel broke a truce agreed with Hamas in March, at least 6,008 Palestinians have been killed and more than 20,591 have been wounded.
The total death toll from the Israeli attacks has risen to 56,331, with 132,632 wounded since October 7, 2023.
Drugs found in flour bags distributed by US-Israeli aid centres in Gaza: Media Office
Gaza’s Government Media Office has expressed its “deep concern and condemnation” over the discovery of “narcotic pills of the type ‘Oxycodone'” inside flour bags distributed by the US- and Israeli-backed aid centres in the enclave.
“We have so far documented four testimonies from citizens who found these pills inside flour bags. More serious is the possibility that some of these narcotic substances were deliberately ground or dissolved in the flour itself, which raises the scope of the crime and transforms it into a serious attack directly targeting public health,” said the statement published by the Media Office on Telegram.
“We hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for this heinous crime of spreading addiction and destroying the Palestinian social fabric from within, as part of a systematic policy that constitutes an extension of the genocide it is waging against our Palestinian people,” it added.
“The Israeli occupation’s use of drugs as a soft weapon in a dirty war against civilians, and its exploitation of the blockade to smuggle these substances as ‘aid and assistance’, constitute a war crime and a grave violation of international humanitarian law,” the statement said.
