Starvation deaths are likely far more, the official count is restricted to people making it to a hospital and dying there.


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August is on track to less fatalities as July (but still more than June with 11 days left). Whether that's the reality on the ground, probably not. Hospitals keep getting targeted as well as rescue efforts and retrieval of the dead and buried under rubble. Only those making it to a morgue get counted.

Gaza death toll rises

At least 70 Palestinians, including 18 aid seekers, have been killed and 356 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 62,192 Palestinians and injured 157,114 since October 7, 2023, the ministry added.

The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism through the US-based GHF, has reached 2,036, with more than 15,064 injured, the statement said.

Israel’s Gideon’s Chariot operation killed ‘9,073 unarmed civilians’ since May: Media Office

Gaza’s Government Media Office says this major Israeli ground offensive launched in May this year has killed 9,073 civilians and injured 36,900.

The statement published on Telegram says the death toll includes 2,358 children, 1,088 women, and 455 elderly people.

It said the remaining victims were men who were shot dead “in cold blood” at the GHF aid distribution sites and aid convoys entering Gaza.

“We demand that the international community take serious and effective action to stop these massacres committed by the occupation and hold it accountable, in accordance with the provisions of international humanitarian law,” the office concluded.

Just 250 aid trucks entered Gaza in past three days: Media Office

Gaza’s Government Media Office says just 250 aid trucks reached the enclave in the past three days, most of which were looted.

That’s far below the 1,800 trucks expected during this timeframe, it said in a statement on Telegram.

In addition, Israeli restrictions have continued to block “vital food items” from being transported in, including eggs, red meat, fish, dairy products, vegetables and nutritional supplements, according to the office.

It went on to say it holds Israel and its allies “fully responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe” and urged “the United Nations, Arab and Islamic countries and the international community to take serious action to open the crossings and ensure the flow of aid, especially food, baby formula and life-saving medicines, and to hold the occupation accountable for its crimes against civilians”.

_{Palestinians seek aid supplies from trucks that entered Gaza through Israel, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, August 10}

Again, 2,100t of food alone each day (105 trucks) is needed to maintain the current level of starvation, 192 trucks of food alone to meet the daily calorie requirements (1.83kg of food) as calculated by Israel. Far more to reverse starvation, rebuild the health sector and start treating the widespread malnutrition.

But it seems Europe is content with a 38% increase in 'Aid' where a 10x increase is needed.

Israel destroyed nearly 80% of aid facilities in Gaza: Palestinian NGOs Network chief

Since day one of the war on Gaza, Israel has targeted the humanitarian lifelines for Palestinians in the Strip, leaving people across the coastal enclave with very few options for basic needs such as food, medicine or shelter.

“Palestinian civil society organizations have been subjected to numerous attacks, resulting in the killing of 230 aid workers, the injury of hundreds more, and the destruction of nearly 80 percent of their headquarters and humanitarian aid facilities,” Amjad Shawa, director-general of the Palestinian NGOs Network in the Gaza Strip, told Al Jazeera.

“These organisations are also facing a severe financial crisis due to the sharp decline in international funding.”

Meanwhile, Mohammed al-Najjar, representative of the Al-Khair Foundation, said one of the “most serious obstacles” facing the aid group was the “creation of an alternative mechanism for aid delivery, bypassing local humanitarian organisations”.

“This includes entities like the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, supported by Israel and the United States, which aims to privatise aid delivery through private companies and shelters mainly located in southern Gaza,” he said.

Gaza hospital director warns of dire conditions amid limited resources

Dr Suhaib al-Hams, the director of the Kuwait Specialty Hospital in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, has spoken to Al Jazeera Arabic about the challenges facing the hospital amid the ongoing Israeli attacks in the enclave.

Deir el-Balah tents in flames after Israeli attack

Footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency shows the aftermath of an Israeli attack that hit a tent camp in Gaza’s central city of Deir el-Balah.

The video shows numerous tents entirely wrecked or in flames next to a huge crater left behind by the explosion, as firefighters work to put out the blazes.

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Red Cross says Israel’s Gaza City offensive ‘intolerable’

Israel’s intensified operations in Gaza aimed at seizing Gaza City will cause new bloodshed and bring the humanitarian situation to another low, warns the Red Cross.

“The intensification of hostilities in Gaza means more killing, more displacement, more destruction and more panic,” said Christian Cardon, chief spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

“Gaza is a closed space, from which nobody can escape … and where access to healthcare, food and safe water is dwindling,” said Cardon.

“Meanwhile, the security of humanitarians is getting worse by the hour,” the spokesman added. “This is intolerable.”

Cardon has taken an active role in the Red Cross’s humanitarian activities on the ground and has been involved in every exchange of the Israeli captives taken by Hamas in the group’s October 7, 2023 attack.

Israeli army warns hospital authorities, aid groups amid escalating attacks in Gaza City

The Israeli army claims its personnel delivered warning calls on Tuesday to medical authorities and international aid groups operating in northern Gaza, sharing with them plans to relocate Palestinians to the southern part of the coastal enclave.

“The officers emphasised to the medical officials that adjustments are being made to the hospital infrastructure in the south of the Strip to receive the sick and wounded, alongside an increased entry of necessary medical equipment according to the requests of the international aid organisations,” it added.

This alert comes amid Israel’s newly approved offensive, a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the military occupation of Gaza City, located in the north of the Palestinian enclave.

Occupying Gaza City marks a major escalation by Israel in its war on the Palestinian territory, and will likely result in the forced displacement of tens of thousands of exhausted and starving residents who are experiencing famine conditions, as Israel continues to block humanitarian aid from entering the territory.

‘Scorched earth’ attacks in Gaza City neighbourhoods

The same exact scenario keeps repeating itself across Gaza. The Israeli military is targeting densely populated neighbourhoods to depopulate them. We’ve seen this unfolding in Tuffah and Shujayea neighbourhoods in eastern Gaza City. Now we’re seeing it happen in the Zeitoun neighbourhood.

It’s a scorched earth strategy – destroying all means of life, including residential buildings, public facilities and other critical infrastructure. This all eventually forces people to leave the area and never return.

Elsewhere, attacks continue to happen in Jabalia.

Global pressure failed to affect Israel’s strategy in Gaza

Israel’s push into Gaza City marks a dangerous escalation, which will inevitably cause more death and destruction, analyst Adel Abdel Ghafar says.

“This is all part and parcel of the punishment of the Palestinian people,” Ghafar, a senior fellow and director of the foreign policy programme at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, told Al Jazeera.

He noted that despite “massive protests” and growing opposition to Israeli actions around the world, the global pressure has not affected the Israeli government’s strategy.

“The Netanyahu government really wants to push the Gazans out of Gaza,” he added.

On the timing of Israel’s military moves alongside lingering ceasefire talks, Ghafar said the Israeli government wants to keep discussions going, “because it also has a domestic constituency that wants the hostages released”.

“But the right-wing of the government wants to also forge ahead with this takeover of Gaza, not just Gaza City.”

Words are useless at this point, actions are needed. 

Israeli Foreign Ministry announces new diplomatic outreach amid Gaza war criticism: Report

The initiative aims to bring hundreds of international delegations to Israel before the year’s end “to help spread the Israeli narrative in international media”, The Times of Israel newspaper is reporting based on an Israeli Foreign Ministry statement.

“As part of the battle of perception against the global anti-Israel narrative,” Israel expects about 400 delegations – involving more than 5,000 participants – to visit by December, the newspaper quoted the ministry statement as saying. The plan is estimated to cost $40m, the report said.

In past years, the figure averaged just 25 delegations annually, the ministry added.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 62,000 people as the Israeli army continues to besiege the coastal enclave, creating a severe hunger crisis. On August 14, more than 100 aid organisations, including prominent groups such as Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Amnesty International, and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), condemned Israel’s weaponisation of aid, saying it was obstructing life-saving assistance from entering Gaza.

Israel’s Gaza City operation ‘beginning of ethnic cleansing’

The Israeli government’s move to push forward with its planned Gaza City offensive, without even discussing the latest ceasefire proposal that Hamas responded positively to, shows it has “no intention to put an end to the war”, says Gideon Levy, columnist for Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

“There is no other way to explain it,” Levy told Al Jazeera. “There is a Hamas offer on the table and Israel hasn’t even discussed it yet.

“So, either they [Israel] want to put more pressure on Hamas, which I’m not sure is very probable, or they’re really serious about re-conquering Gaza City, pushing all the people to the south and then offering them to leave the Gaza Strip.

“That’s the beginning of an ethnic cleansing of Gaza,” Levy said.

Expanded war aims could further isolate Israel internationally

Haaretz newspaper columnist Gideon Levy says Israel’s expanded military operations in Gaza risk further alienating the country internationally, without any clear endgame in sight.

“The main risk is first of all operative,” Levy told Al Jazeera. “I don’t know how many fighters are still in Gaza and what kind of ammunitions and weapons they have.”

But above all, he said, is the risk of further reputational damage to Israel. “What will the world say if Israel continues the war instead of putting an end to it?” he told Al Jazeera, noting the country has already been acting as something of “a pariah state”.

“Meanwhile, within Israel, I see that there are a lot of protests, but very few refusing to serve in the army. And that’s really astonishing,” he added.

Only a phone call from the White House can stop Netanyahu

Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, says the families of captives have demonstrated “day and night”, and “have a lot of support in Israel, but … at the end of the day, this government continues with its plans”.

Speaking to Al Jazeera via videolink from Tel Aviv, he said there was only one thing that could stop Netanyahu from pressing ahead with the seizure of Gaza City “and that’s a phone call from the White House, but this phone call doesn’t seem to come”.

Levy added that the fact that Israel did not even discuss the ceasefire proposal is proof “that Israel is not interested in a deal right now, Israel is interested in continuing the war”.

“I don’t see anything within Israel stopping Netanyahu right now; he can do whatever he wants. The only thing that can really stop him is … Washington,” Levy said.


Israel's reputation is already done. The only thing not making it worse right now is continuing the genocide, that is preventing the worst evidence to come out. The previous ceasefire revealed many mass graves and the scale of destruction back then. 

Occupation of the Gaza strip not only placates the far right, it also helps hide/destroy the evidence.

Holocaust Survivor's Final WARNING to Israel

‘Bitter situation’: Families flee amid escalating Israeli attacks on Gaza City

In Gaza City, thousands of Palestinians have left their homes as Israeli forces have escalated shelling on the Sabra and Tuffah neighbourhoods. Some families have left for shelters along the coast, while others have moved to central and southern parts of the enclave, according to residents there.

“We are facing a bitter-bitter situation, to die at home or leave and die somewhere else. As long as this war continues, survival is uncertain,” said Rabah Abu Elias, 67, a father of seven.

“In the news, they speak about a possible truce. On the ground, we only hear explosions and see deaths. To leave Gaza City or not isn’t an easy decision to make,” he told the Reuters news agency.

Israel’s government approved a new offensive earlier this month, a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the military occupation of Gaza City, a move widely condemned globally.

Gaza Health Ministry rejects Israeli push to transfer resources south

The Palestinian Health Ministry has released a statement responding to what it says is an Israeli push to transfer health system resources to the south of the enclave.

“The Ministry of Health expresses its rejection of any step that would undermine what remains of the health system following the systematic destruction carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities,” it said.

“This step would deprive more than one million people of their right to treatment and put the lives of residents, patients and the wounded at imminent risk.”

As we’ve been reporting, Palestinians in Gaza City have expressed alarm and defiance as Israel tries to seize the city and forcibly displace them to other parts of Gaza, many of which are already overcrowded and lacking food, shelter and other supplies.

In its statement, the Gaza Health Ministry called on the UN and other international institutions “to protect what remains of the health system and provide all the necessary resources to save lives”.

Palestinians inspect huge crater in Gaza City left by an Israeli bomb

_{Israel struck Gaza City particularly hard overnight, residents reported}

Eighty-three percent of Palestinians killed in Gaza were civilians: Report

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/revealed-israeli-militarys-own-data-indicates-civilian-death-rate-of-83-in-gaza-war

Eighty-three percent of those killed in Israel’s war on Gaza have been civilians, the Guardian and Israeli news outlets +972 and Local Call have found, citing classified Israeli military intelligence figures.

The report found that, as of May, Israeli intelligence officials had listed 8,900 named Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters as dead or “probably dead”.

That amounts to just 17 percent of the some 53,000 Palestinians who had been killed in Israeli attacks by that date.

“That apparent ratio of civilians to combatants among the dead is extremely high for modern warfare, even compared with conflicts notorious for indiscriminate killing, including the Syrian and Sudanese civil wars,” the report said.

Palestinians have said since the beginning of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza that the vast majority of those killed were civilians, including women and children. They have also condemned the Israeli military for its indiscriminate attacks, which have decimated the enclave.

Meanwhile studies have already put the real death toll much higher.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02009-8
Almost 84,000 people died in Gaza between October 2023 and early January 2025 as a result of the Hamas–Israel war, estimates the first independent survey of deaths.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/10/gaza-death-toll-40-higher-than-official-number-lancet-study-finds
Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds

Take that 40% under counting of direct deaths and that 17% goes down to 12%, over 8 civilians per claimed combatant, 88%. Compared to Ukraine, 10% of deaths are attributed to civilians in Ukraine.

Five Palestinian children missing after seeking aid in Gaza: Rights group

Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) is raising alarm after at least five Palestinian boys between the ages of 12 and 16 have gone missing while seeking humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.

Musab Hussein Ziad Alyan, 12; Zain Suhail Said Dahman, 16; Ibrahim Mohammad Mohammad Abu Zaher, 15; Khaled Ramzi Adnan Saleh, 13, and Anas Eid Mahmoud Al-Sayed, 14, went missing between June 24 and August 2 near northern Gaza’s Zikim border crossing.

“Each day, we go back [to the hospitals] when new bodies are brought in,” 16-year-old Dahman’s mother told DCIP. “We have been tracking the bodies from the day he disappeared until now, and he has not been found among them.”

The rights group said the families believe the boys were likely detained by the Israeli military. “Israeli forces are shooting, detaining, and disappearing Palestinian children seeking aid in Gaza,” Ayed Abu Eqtaish, DCIP’s accountability programme director, said in a statement.

“Israeli forces have refused to disclose the numbers, names, and whereabouts of Palestinian children from Gaza in military custody, and these children have had no contact with the outside world,” Abu Eqtaish said.

“We have more than two decades of evidence indicating that Israeli forces torture Palestinian children in military detention. All of these children must be released and reunited with their families immediately.”

15-year-old Ibrahim disappeared on July 17 at the Zikim border area while looking for food. “Ibrahim was like my right-hand man,” Ibrahim’s father said.

Contact your reps to demand answers: https://t.co/qXeLGhS2rN pic.twitter.com/63S67bKcYe

— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) August 21, 2025

Israel’s Gaza City push ‘a death sentence’ for Palestinians: Ministry

The Palestinian Interior Ministry has condemned Israel’s push to seize and forcibly displace about one million people from Gaza City, calling it a “criminal plan”.

“This would constitute a major humanitarian catastrophe for the city’s 1.2 million residents and internally displaced people,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that the international community must take action to prevent “a premeditated war crime”.

“If the [Israeli] occupation continues its plan, it would sentence 1.2 million people to death and displacement without shelter or a place to go,” it said.

Ninety-one aid seekers wounded, says hospital in Gaza

Hamad Hospital, which is funded by Qatar, announced that it received the bodies of three people killed along with 91 others who were wounded while seeking aid.

The Israeli army fired on them in the northern Gaza Strip, in a new escalation of the ongoing assault on civilians and humanitarian facilities.

UNRWA warns services ‘at severe risk’ in Gaza City

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the situation in Gaza City is worsening amid Israel’s intensified operations.

“Tens of thousands live in UNRWA shelters and the surrounding areas,” it said in a post on X, noting that it provides displaced people with health care, drinking water, shelter and sanitation.

“There must be a #CeasefireNow.”

UNRWA services in #Gaza City are at severe risk as the Israeli military operations intensify.

Tens of thousands live in UNRWA shelters and the surrounding areas.

UNRWA provides healthcare, drinking water, shelter, and sanitation to the displaced.

There must be a #CeasefireNow.… pic.twitter.com/CJpDkhQzbC

— UNRWA (@UNRWA) August 21, 2025

Palestinians injured in settler attack in the occupied West Bank: Report

Several Palestinians have been injured in a settler attack in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports. The attack caused extensive damage to residents’ homes and property, Wafa stated, citing local activist Osama Makhamreh.

He said the settlers physically assaulted residents, injuring an elderly man and inflicting head wounds that required hospital treatment.

The settlers also vandalised property, smashing the windows of a house and damaging several civilian vehicles and two agricultural tractors belonging to two families in the area, Wafa said.

Violent attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank have surged since October 2023, in tandem with Israel’s war on Gaza, with the United Nations reporting that almost 650 Palestinians – including 121 children – have been killed in the territory by Israeli forces and settlers between January 1, 2024 and the start of July 2025.

A further 5,269 Palestinians were injured during that period, including 1,029 children.

France condemns Israel’s approval for settlement project east of Jerusalem

France’s Foreign Ministry says in a statement that the approval by an Israeli planning commission of a project to build settlements in the E1 area east of Jerusalem is unacceptable and constitutes a violation of international law.

Yesterday, Israel said that the E1 project, which would bisect the occupied West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, had received the final go-ahead from a Defence Ministry planning commission.

Formulaic condemnations not sufficient’: Amnesty on Israel’s E1 plan

Amnesty International has condemned Israel’s decision to approve about 3,400 new illegal settlement units in a corridor of the occupied West Bank between Jerusalem and the massive settlement of Ma’ale Adumim.

The so-called E1 settlement expansion, which would effectively sever the northern and southern portions of the occupied territory, has been widely criticised by world leaders and the UN. But Amnesty said that doesn’t go far enough.

“For decades, Israel has pursued vicious land grab policies & relentlessly expanded illegal settlements in violation of int’l law with devastating consequences for Palestinians’ human rights while facing no repercussions,” the rights group wrote on X.

“Formulaic condemnations are not sufficient,” it added.

“All states have an obligation to take concrete actions to ensure Israel immediately halts the E1 settlement expansion plan, dismantles existing Israeli settlements and brings its unlawful occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza to an end.”

The Israeli civil administration’s approval of the E1 settlement plan to build some 3400 housing units between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim settlement in the occupied West Bank is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and a dangerous step towards formal…

— Amnesty MENA (@AmnestyMENA) August 21, 2025