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War on Gaza death toll rises
Since October 2023, Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 62,686 people and wounded 157,951, the Palestinian Health Ministry in the enclave says.
In the latest 24-hour reporting period, the bodies of 64 people and 278 injured Palestinians have been brought to hospitals across the besieged enclave, hospital officials said.
Moreover, the bodies of 19 people killed while seeking aid and 123 wounded aid seekers were brought to Gaza’s health facilities in the past 24 hours.
The latest deaths raise the total number of aid seekers who have been killed by Israeli fire since the establishment of the US- and Israel-backed GHF at the end of May to 2,095, with more than 15,431 wounded.
A Palestinian man rides a bike as smoke rises following an Israeli attack on Gaza City, August 24
Israeli forces blocking access to areas it bombed: Emergency services director
The director of ambulance and emergency services in Gaza, Fares Afaneh, has updated Al Jazeera on the challenges facing rescue workers and residents. Here are his comments:
- The occupation prevents our vehicles from entering to rescue civilians in the areas it has targeted.
- Displaced people don’t know where to go due to the lack of safe areas in the Gaza Strip.
- Hospitals are damaged and severely lack supplies and medical staff.
Seven-year-old Palestinian girl fights for her life amid Israeli-made famine
The Israel-imposed famine is tightening its grip on Gaza, and for some families, it’s too late.
May Abu Arar is just one of an increasing number of young Palestinians suffering from malnutrition. The seven-year-old has been losing weight for four months and is so weak she has to be fed through a syringe.
“She’s been suffering from malnutrition for four months now,” Nadia Abu Arar, May’s mother, told Al Jazeera, adding that May had never spent a night in a hospital before.
“The doctor told me that she isn’t suffering from any disease or from any past conditions. They are saying it’s all due to malnutrition. … I haven’t seen improvement in her situation at all,” she said.
Hisham Abu al-Oun, director of paediatric intensive care at Friends of the Patient Hospital, says the Israeli army “is preventing the entry of vital medicines into the Gaza Strip”.
“Potassium chloride is the easiest medication that any doctor can prescribe. We don’t even have that,” he told Al Jazeera. “We have babies die because we don’t have it. Sometimes, supplies come in but, unfortunately, very little.”
