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Gaza’s hunger toll rises to 441 after child dies of severe malnutrition
A medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza says a nine-year-old child has died from severe malnutrition in the hospital’s paediatric ward.
The death comes amid a worsening famine in the enclave, where hunger-related deaths have been steadily rising as Israel’s blockade restricts the entry of food and fuel.
The latest case brings the total number of deaths from Israeli-induced hunger since the war on Gaza began to 441, according to Gaza Health Ministry figures.
Gaza City under ‘heaviest wave’ of Israeli attacks since war began
This current military operation is completely destroying entire blocks, and there are still families who are trapped under the debris of the targeted houses, particularly in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.
We’ve got reports confirming that three civilians were killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a residential house in Tal al-Hawa, close to the Netzarim Corridor – a key direction that the Israeli military has been following to encircle the entire city.
We are also receiving updates from Gaza’s Health Ministry confirming that 36 Palestinians have been killed since dawn today – 19 of them in Gaza City.
Also, distressing images are coming out of the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Israeli quadcopter drones dropping grenades in the courtyards of UN-run shelters.
Many Palestinian families in Gaza City lack the means to flee Israel’s escalating assault
The Israeli military warned earlier on Friday it would attack Gaza City with “unprecedented force”, telling residents to flee south as it presses its ground offensive on the territory’s largest urban centre. But many Palestinians say the journey is prohibitively expensive and there is no safe place to go.
“For several days, we’ve been trying to evacuate to the south, but we haven’t been able to find any means of transport,” Khaled al-Majdalawi, a displaced Palestinian in western Gaza City told the AFP news agency, describing “intense and continuous” shelling. “We finally found a way to leave early this morning. We packed our belongings and waited for hours, but until now, no one has come, and the driver isn’t answering us,” the 32-year-old said.
Nivin Ahmed, 50, fled south from Gaza City to the central city of Deir el-Balah on Thursday, walking with seven family members. “We walked more than 15km [nine miles], we were crawling from exhaustion,” she told AFP. “My youngest son cried from fatigue. We took turns dragging a small cart with some of our belongings.”
Mona Abdel Karim, 36, said she had been unable to secure transport south and had been sleeping on the al-Rashid road for two nights with her family, waiting for a driver. “I feel like I’m about to explode. We can’t walk on foot – my husband’s parents are elderly and sick, and the children are too weak to walk,” she said.
Toufic Abu Mouawad left a camp for the displaced in Gaza City with nowhere else to go. “The situation is really bad. All night long, the tank was firing shells,” Abu Mouawad told the Reuters news agency. “I want to flee with the boys, the girls, the children. This is the situation that we are living in. It is a very tragic situation. We call on all the Arab countries and the people who have a good conscience to stand with us.”
