Gaza death toll rises
At least 105 Palestinians have been killed and 530 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The toll included seven aid seekers killed and more than 57 injured, the statement published by the ministry on Telegram said.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 57,680 people and injured 137,409 since October 7, 2023, the ministry said.
The total number of aid seekers killed since the US- and Israel-backed aid mechanism was introduced on May 27 has reached 773, with more than 5,101 Palestinians waiting for aid also injured.
Number of aid seekers killed near Rafah rises to 8: Medical source
We’re getting reports that eight Palestinians were killed near the GHF aid centres as they were approaching to get food aid. Their bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis.
What is adding to the danger and confusion is that GHF did not share any information about times and locations where aid distribution would take place. So, Palestinians continued to gather near these aid centres in the early hours.
The GHF’s only aid site in central Gaza has now suspended operations, in a move that is expected to last at least a week. The GHF says this is part of an effort to improve the capacity of its warehouses.
The three aid hubs that remain operational are in the south, meaning that for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in central Gaza, the route to get aid will be a lengthy, dangerous trip on foot.
This concentration of aid in the south corresponds to what Israel is outlining under its proposal for a so-called “humanitarian city” amid the ruins of Rafah, which would see the transfer of Palestinians from other parts of Gaza. Palestinians are saying they fear Israel might forcibly prevent them from returning.
‘Decimated’: Gaza under-five mortality rises 10-fold since war began, says MSF
A survey of Doctors Without Borders (known by its French initials MSF) staff and their families has revealed an “appalling” death rate in Israel’s war on Gaza, the charity says.
The retrospective mortality survey of 2,523 MSF staff and their family members in Gaza found that the mortality rate among Palestinian children under five had increased 10-fold, compared with Ministry of Health estimates before the outbreak of the war.
For babies less than one month old, the mortality rate was six times higher, while among all those surveyed, it was five times higher.
Amande Bazerolle, deputy manager of MSF’s emergency department, condemned Israel’s “disregard for children’s lives”. “The children of Gaza are being decimated,” she said.
Israel carpet-bombs eastern Gaza City
It’s been 15 minutes so far since this major attack and black smoke continues to fill the skies after the eastern part of Gaza City was hit. We heard multiple explosions, massive ones, we had to duck and take cover. We could feel the building we’re in shaking. It seems to be a targeted killing by Israel, but no confirmation yet.
The entire street was hit by these bombs. People who are caught in this have been wounded. We can hear ambulance sirens on the way to the scene. People are scrambling for shelter.
An estimated 20 bombs were dropped by Israel’s army on an area best known as Jaffa Street in the densely populated Tuffah neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City. These were “quake bombs”, they shook the buildings. There are reports of damage and devastation to many buildings in that area.
Civil defence workers and paramedics are unable to reach the scene to help victims as Israeli quadcopter drones continue to hover in the sky. Many of the residential areas caught up in the bombing were full of people. We can confirm from one survivor that a four-storey building was hit by at least two missiles and brought to the ground, completely flattened.
No warning whatsoever was given to the area before this mass bombing of eastern Gaza City.
Israeli attacks across Gaza kill 74
Israeli attacks have killed 74 people across Gaza including 19 in the northern part of the enclave since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera. Among those, eight people were killed by Israeli fire while waiting for GHF aid.
