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At Gaza’s cemeteries, grief turns to questions and questions to rage
Following Israel’s overnight strikes in northern Gaza, the bodies of Palestinians killed in the attacks were carried through the streets for burial this morning.
Mohammed Abu Daf told Al Jazeera that those killed in one attack included “five children, three women and the rest were youths, many of the injured are in critical condition; it’s enough, enough for what the people of Gaza are going through”.
“My cousin’s house was targeted while they were sleeping at three in the morning, sleeping in peace. Where do people go? All of Gaza is targeted,” Abu Daf said.
At overwhelmed medical facilities, the wounded filled the floors before beds could be found, as doctors must make the impossible choice of who they save first.
Issam Abu Ajwa, a general surgery specialist at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, said: “After the bombing of a house in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, we received 12 bodies and a number of injuries, including children and women.”
Israel starves 4 more Palestinians to death in Gaza
Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded four more hunger-related deaths over the past 24 hours.
The latest count brings the total number of Palestinians who have starved to death during Israel’s war on Gaza to 239, including 106 children.
Without medical care, aid could trigger deadly new crisis in Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/14/food-alone-wont-save-gazas-starving-population
Israel has imposed man-made starvation on the population of Gaza since the aggression against the enclave began in October 2023. This campaign intensified drastically after March 2025, when the Zionist occupation implemented even harsher restrictions on the already scarce aid allowed into Gaza.
Since then, hundreds of men, women, and children have died from severe malnutrition. Doctors survive on meagre crumbs of bread and oil each day, often resorting to seawater to ingest much-needed electrolytes.
Bodily systems shut down one by one, fatigue envelops the victims, and the body begins to consume itself to death. What is often overlooked, however, is that recovery from starvation can be just as devastating.
Israel uses ‘bureaucratic measures’ to stop NGOs from delivering aid to Gaza: Oxfam
Israel is using “bureaucratic measures to block aid, and the impact of that means that it will only deepen starvation in Gaza”, Bushra Khalidi, policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory for Oxfam, a global charity, has told Al Jazeera.
“Most major international NGOs since the second of March have been virtually unable to deliver a single truck of life-saving supplies, and we have millions of dollars of food, medicine and essential goods from multiple NGOs that are just standing there in the regional borders, just waiting to get in,” Khalidi said.
“Israeli authorities are rejecting aid requests from these long-established NGOs. There’s been 60 plus such denials issued since July alone,” she said.
“Registration rules are demanding, extremely intrusive and [include] unsafe disclosure of Palestinian staff lists, donor information and other sensitive data. Our view is that this violates international law, data protection laws [and] ultimately it puts staff at risk,” she said.
“Gaza has become the most dangerous place for humanitarian workers to be in. We have seen systematic attacks on aid convoys, humanitarian trucks, warehouses, premises. So for us, refusing to comply with providing private information about our staff, it’s natural,” Khalidi said.
