SvennoJ on 13 August 2025
Main events on August 13th
- At least 100 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday.
- UN experts say Israel’s targeted destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system and its killing and starvation of health workers in the Strip amounts to “medicide” – an attempt to wipe out medical care.
- Gaza’s Government Media Office says the number of people who have died from starvation in the enclave has risen to 235, including 106 children, as the humanitarian crisis reaches what it called “catastrophic levels”.
- Al Jazeera has seen a copy of a UN report set to be published on Thursday that accuses Israeli forces of using sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners.
- The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says critical aid, including food, medicines, shelter materials, and hygiene supplies, is being blocked by Israeli authorities from entering Gaza.
- An Israeli drone strike targeted a car on the Haris–Hadatha road in southern Lebanon, killing one person, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.
