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Israel kills three more aid seekers in central Gaza
Three more Palestinians seeking aid have been killed near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, local medical sources tell our reporters on the ground. Numerous others have been wounded in the area, they report.
In its latest daily update yesterday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli attacks had killed at least 21 aid seekers over the latest 24-hour reporting period.
Five more deaths from starvation, bringing overall toll to 217, including 100 children
The Health Ministry in Gaza says hospitals in the besieged territory have recorded five new deaths from forced starvation during the last 24-hour reporting period, bringing the total number of victims since the start of the war to 217.
Two children were among the latest deaths, raising the number of children who have died from forced starvation in Gaza to 100.
Aid drops providing less than 1 percent of Gaza’s food needs
Palestinian writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada says all of the combined airdrops of aid into the Gaza Strip over the last week have totalled about the equivalent of 15 aid trucks, “which is less than 1 percent of what Gaza needs on a normal day for basic survival”.
Aid agencies have been seeking the entry of at least 600 trucks daily to address the dire situation in Gaza, which has seen more than 200 people die of starvation.
Shehada, a senior fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations, says “complicit countries” are participating in parachuting aid into Gaza, “not to address the hunger, not to end it, but to sustain it [and] cover it up” with “headline-grabbing gestures”.
Israel’s consistent policy for the past two decades has been to allow in fewer trucks than could provide the “minimal calorie count” Palestinians need to survive, in what Israelis have called putting Palestinians on a “starvation-plus diet”, Shehada said, referring to Israel’s air, land and sea blockade of Gaza since 2007.
He added that Israel’s intention is to make “the situation as miserable” as possible so that people have no choice but to leave Gaza, which “Israel now calls voluntary migration”.
“Starve to death if you stay or stay and get bombed to death, or leave of your own volition,” Shehada said.
As we reported earlier, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by a falling pallet during an airdrop of humanitarian aid in Gaza on Saturday, one of at least 23 Palestinians who have been crushed to death in a similar way since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
Palestinians rush to the scene as air pallets, carrying humanitarian aid, parachute down after being dropped from a military plane over Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday
Israel’s war on Gaza has now killed at least 61,430 Palestinians
The latest daily casualties report by the Health Ministry in Gaza is in.
In a statement, it said the bodies of 61 people, including two from earlier attacks, had arrived in hospital across the Gaza Strip during the latest 24-hour reporting period. At least 35 were aid seekers. An additional 363 people, including 304 aid seekers, were wounded, the ministry added.
The figures bring the overall number of people killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war to at least 61,430, with 153,213 wounded.
Five more aid seekers killed by Israeli forces in southern Gaza
Israeli forces have shot and killed at least five people seeking aid near the Morag axis in southern Gaza, our colleagues on the ground cite Nasser Hospital as reporting.
Meanwhile, an aerial strike that hit a tent camp in al-Mawasi killed another person. So far today, Israeli attacks have killed at least 52 Palestinians, including at least 26 aid seekers, according to medical sources.
