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Deadly attack on central Gaza raises today’s death toll
A source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reported that a Palestinian woman was killed and others were wounded in an Israeli attack that targeted a house in the south of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Gaza’s hospitals report that today’s death toll now stands at 87 people killed, including 73 aid seekers.
Palestinians in Gaza facing ‘compounded massacres’
Munir al-Bursh, director-general of Gaza’s Health Ministry, said Palestinians in Gaza are facing “compounded massacres caused by starvation and ongoing bombardment”.
The Israeli army is “taking advantage of people’s hunger and need for food, luring them towards the [GHF] death traps, only to kill them”, al-Bursh said, commenting on the rising number of aid seekers killed.
At least 86 people, mostly children, have died due to hunger and malnutrition in Gaza, he told Al Jazeera. Those who are dying as a result of Israel’s crippling siege are “far more” than those who are being killed directly due to bombardment, he said.
Palestinians gather at a charity kitchen in Nuseirat
Gaza civil defence spokesperson launches hunger strike to protest ‘catastrophic famine’
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defence, has announced he is going on a full hunger strike starting today in protest of the “catastrophic famine” unfolding in the besieged enclave.
In a statement addressed “to the conscience of the world,” Basal said he, like more than 2 million Palestinians, is surviving on scraps of food due to the total absence of basic supplies. He warned that Gaza is not facing a crisis, but a “documented crime” where children are dying of hunger and aid is being deliberately withheld for political reasons.
“Using starvation as a weapon of war is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law,” he said, calling on world leaders, parliaments, the UN, academics, and influencers to take urgent action. He urged the immediate opening of safe humanitarian corridors, the lifting of Israel’s siege, an international investigation into the use of starvation as a weapon, and a global pressure campaign to end what he called the slow extermination of Gaza’s population.
“My hunger strike is not symbolic. It is an act of peaceful resistance against slow-motion genocide,” Basal said.
