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Four killed after Israeli forces opened fire on crowd seeking aid
Israeli attacks on Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza continue. Witnesses said at least four people were killed when Israeli forces fired at a crowd seeking aid near a GHF site near the Netzarim Corridor yesterday.
“The gunfire was indiscriminate,” Mohamed Abed, a father of two from the Bureij refugee camp, was quoted as saying by the AP. He and another witness said the shooting began when a group at the front tried to push towards the site before its scheduled opening.
In a statement to AP, the GHF said, “This incident didn’t occur near our site nor as described.”
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, more than 2,000 Palestinians have been killed and some 13,500 wounded while seeking aid at distribution points or along convoy routes used by the UN and other aid groups.
‘It is entirely man-made’: Gaza doctor describes collapse of healthcare amid famine
Melina, a Bulgarian anaesthesiologist at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, has described the impact of famine and bombardment on patients and staff inside the hospital.
“What I see every day are people who are extremely thin … they are clearly displaying signs of severe malnutrition,” she said in a video shared by the hospital. “This affects their ability to heal and to fight infections … and makes any recovery from any illness really, really complicated.”
Describing a “total collapse” of healthcare, food and education, Melina added: “I have never witnessed or imagined a situation like that is possible … The fact that to this disaster, I’m a witness, it is entirely man-made. It could have been prevented.”
She recalled anaesthetising a 33-year-old patient about to lose his right hand, saying there were “many like him” who had lost “their homes and their children, their livelihoods, their salaries”.
“Nobody knows really what will happen,” she said. “The uncertainty and the long duration of this disaster is really shocking.”
Gaza’s health crisis: Doctors powerless against famine killing malnourished children
Doctors say there’s little they can do to stop children dying of starvation from the Israeli-engineered famine in Gaza. It’s getting worse as attacks step up, with Israel intent on seizing Gaza City and forcing out nearly one million Palestinians.
Seven-year-old May Abu Arar is one of the children with severe malnutrition. For four months, her mother has watched helplessly as she wastes away in front of her.
“May is so weak she has to be fed through a syringe. Every sip is painful. Her mother says these liquid meals aren’t working,” said Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili, reporting from Gaza City. Her mother, Nadia Abu Arar, says May “used to weigh 19kg, and then it started decreasing”.
“There’s such a shortage of protein that every day, my daughter has been getting worse and worse. 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 … and I haven’t seen improvement in her situation at all.”
Malnutrition-related deaths cross 300
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 11 more people, including two children, have died from malnutrition in the past 24 hours.
That brings the total number of hunger- and malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza, where famine has now been confirmed in some areas, to 300, including 117 children.
