Israeli military destroyed tens of thousands of aid items that spoiled at Gaza border: Report

Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, reports that the military has destroyed and buried tens of thousands of aid items – including food and medical supplies – that spoiled after sitting too long at the Gaza border.

Citing military sources, the report says the wasted aid amounted to the contents of roughly 1,000 trucks and was either burned or buried.

“Even today, there are thousands of packages waiting in the sun, and if they are not transferred to the Gaza Strip, we will be forced to destroy them too,” one military source was quoted as saying.

The broadcaster attributed the spoilage to a “problem in the aid distribution mechanism”. For months, Israel has faced sharp criticism from the UN and rights groups over its obstruction of aid deliveries into Gaza.

Main events on July 25th

• Sources at hospitals in the Gaza Strip tell Al Jazeera that at least 38 people have been killed by Israeli attacks since the early hours of this morning.
• Sources at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis told Al Jazeera that a six-month-old infant has succumbed to medical complications that arose from starvation. At least nine other Palestinians starved to death in Gaza today, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
• Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, reports that the military has destroyed and buried tens of thousands of aid items – including food and medical supplies – that spoiled after sitting too long at the Gaza border.
• Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed a hypersonic missile attack on Israel, saying it was aimed at Beersheba in the south of the country. The Israeli government said it intercepted the missile.
• The UN’s World Food Programme said on X that it has distributed 22,000 metric tonnes of food aid to starving Palestinians in Gaza since May 21, and dispatched 349 trucks carrying about 4,200 tonnes of food in the last week alone, but that this is a “tiny fraction” of what is needed to keep the Strip’s population alive.

Surgeon Just Back from Gaza: Injuries Indicate Targeting of Certain Body Parts

Dr. Nick Maynard, a surgeon who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza for the past month, describes a pattern reminiscent of "target practice" visible in the injuries medical staff are treating in Gaza.

As evidence grows of deliberate massacres of Palestinians seeking aid at the U.S.- and Israeli-backed aid sites, Maynard says the pattern of injuries suggests that Israeli military forces and other security contractors staffing the sites are "playing some sort of game" in their targeting of civilians, shooting at the head one day, "the abdomen tomorrow, the testicles the day after that."

Because of Israel's blockade on food and medicine outside of the sparse supplies available at these dangerous aid sites, Maynard continues, normally survivable injuries have become fatal. "Because they're so malnourished, their tissues don't heal. Their immune systems are suppressed. … They often end up breaking down, causing terrible infections inside the body, and frequently these patients die."

'There is a genocide': Doctor calls on government to do more to avert Gaza 'war crimes' | ITV News

Professor Nick Maynard has just returned from his latest trip to Gaza, where he works as a surgeon. He told ITV News about the conditions he experienced inside the territry during July, which was the deadliest month in the conflict in 18 months. 

Fearing Trump, UK, France, Germany change tune on Gaza? Crocodile tears by BBC

A day after Emmanuel Macron announced his intention to recognise the State of Palestine, a joint statement by the UK, France and Germany has surprisingly omitted that pledge. Rifat Jawaid says that this could be to avoid potential reprisals from Donald Trump who had rejected Macron’s statement. Meanwhile, the BBC too has issued a statement pretending to care about eh suffering of Palestinians journalists.

Berlin Burns: 120 Riot Cops Kick, Punch Pro-Gaza Protesters At Anti-Israel Govt Protest

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters were detained by police during a tense rally in Berlin against Israel’s actions in Gaza. The unauthorized demonstration near Checkpoint Charlie saw violent clashes as officers used force and paramedics treated injured protesters. Demonstrators decried the alleged “starvation” of Gaza’s civilians amid a growing humanitarian crisis. UNICEF warns over 2.4 million people in Gaza face famine risks due to blockades and shortages. Israel denies responsibility, blaming Hamas for the crisis, as conflict casualties continue to rise sharply.

This is not the first time Palestinians have been starved to death

In 2014, thousands of Palestinians in Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp were starved under siege by the Assad regime, which cut them off from food, medicine and water in a blockade that lasted years. Today, Palestine’s Gaza is facing a similar fate as Israel enforces a total blockade, halting all entry of food, medicine and humanitarian aid from entering the besieged enclave. As international warnings of a man-made famine grow louder, the parallels between Yarmouk and Gaza are impossible to ignore. And amid Israel’s ongoing assault on the Palestinian territory, starvation is not simply a byproduct of war, but rather part of Tel Aviv’s genocidal strategy.

Live crossover to the #Handala as it breaks the Israeli siege to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Former US soldier alleges war crimes committed by Israeli army, US contractors in Gaza

A former US soldier who worked for the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has told the BBC that he had “without question … witnessed war crimes” in the killing of civilians seeking food aid.

Anthony Aguilar told the BBC that he saw Israeli soldiers and US contractors use live ammunition, artillery, mortar rounds and tank fire on civilians at food distribution sites.

“In my entire career, I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of the [Israeli army] and US contractors,” he was quoted by the BBC as saying.

Al Jazeera had previously reported similar incidents, quoting Palestinian witnesses who were among those seeking food aid from the GHF.


_{Palestinians transport a wounded man who was reportedly shot as he waited to receive food parcels at a GHF distribution point in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on July 12}

Israeli forces kill 12 aid seekers and injure 150 in attack in northern Gaza

At least 12 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces as they sought food in northern Gaza. Hospitals said more than 150 people were injured in the overnight attack, which happened near the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza.

Israeli forces have targeted people in this area before. Twenty-six Palestinians were killed while waiting for food trucks on Sunday. The UN said more than 1,000 people have been killed at food distribution sites since May.

WHO chief urges Israel to immediately release staff member working in Gaza

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called on Israel to release a WHO staff member in Gaza who has been detained since Monday.

“It has been four days. Our colleague remains in detention. We again call for his immediate release,” Ghebreyesus said in a statement posted on X.

On Monday, WHO reported that its staff residence in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, was hit by projectiles and damaged by fire while its personnel and their families were inside. It also said staff members were detained, stripped to their underwear, handcuffed, blindfolded and interrogated at gunpoint.

We once again call on the Israeli authorities to ensure the immediate release of our @WHOoPt colleague detained in #Gaza. pic.twitter.com/eFvWrKPJlP

— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) July 25, 2025

Jewish scholars call for immediate delivery of humanitarian aid amid starvation in Gaza

A New York-based international association of Conservative Jewish scholars has called for an “urgent action” in Gaza “to alleviate civilian suffering and ensure aid delivery” amid reports of deadly starvation.

“Even as we believe Hamas could end this suffering immediately through the release of the hostages and care for its civilian population, the Israeli government must do everything in its power to ensure humanitarian aid reaches those in need,” the Rabbinical Assembly said in a statement posted on its Facebook page and its website.

“The Jewish tradition calls upon us to ensure the provision of food, water, and medical supplies as a top priority,” the group said.

“Aid agencies, the United Nations, and the Israeli government must act swiftly to distribute supplies currently stalled at the border so they reach the civilians who so desperately need them.”

Not just Jewish tradition, international law as well.

Anger over Israel’s man-made starvation – Protesters march from UN through New York

Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters gathered opposite the UN headquarters in New York on Friday with one message: End Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Not ‘a single crumb’: Palestinians in Gaza City desperately search for food

Palestinians waiting for food at a charity kitchen in Gaza City have described the struggles they face to get enough to eat amid an ongoing Israeli blockade.

“Here’s my pot, it doesn’t even have a single crumb,” said one woman, Umm Abdullah, as she waited. “I have a two-year-old girl. I got back home with an empty pot to see my daughter screaming for having no food or bread.”

She said there were often squabbles at the charity kitchen as desperate people jostled for the limited supplies available. Previously, she said, “A pot spilled on me and I was burned so I left with nothing.”

Another woman, Riham Dwas, said: “Sometimes I get food and sometimes I don’t. My children eat if there is a charity kitchen running, but if there isn’t, then they don’t.”

Nearly 500,000 people are facing catastrophic hunger in Gaza, and at least 122 people have starved to death since Israel’s war began nearly 22 months ago, most since March when Israel imposed a total blockade.

Gaza Medical Relief: 17,000 children suffer from severe malnutrition in besieged territory

A total of 17,000 children in Gaza suffer from severe malnutrition, the director of Medical Relief in Gaza said, as Israel continues its humanitarian blockade of the besieged territory.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Dr Mohammed Abu Afash said the situation is “deteriorating day by day, and we are in the fifth stage of famine”, adding that the lack of milk for children is causing serious health problems for them.

“If medicines and medical supplies are not delivered immediately, the death rate will accelerate,” he added. “There is no food or drink, and no aid has been delivered for the past five months.”

_{A protester in Israel’s Sakhnin holds a picture during a protest calling on the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end hunger in Gaza}

Another infant starves to death in Gaza during Israel’s blockade

The latest person to starve to death in Gaza is an infant, Zainab Abu Halib. Her family says she died because she was malnourished and they could not get milk for her. Not only could they not afford the formula, they simply could not find any to buy.

Her family said they saw her dying slowly every day due to the lack of food and medical treatment. They went to the hospital, but the hospital did not have any treatment for her.

Her death brings the number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition and starvation in Gaza to 123 with at least 84 of those children and babies.

Israel must immediately lift fuel and access restrictions in Gaza: Oxfam

There should not be any restrictions on aid or fuel when the entire population of Gaza faces starvation and more than 80 children have died of hunger, Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory, says.

“What world do we live where I’m an hour and a half away from Gaza and there are children starving miles from me and there’s an abundance of food here?” she told Al Jazeera from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

“The main point is that there is a siege on Gaza, that Israel has occupied 88 percent of Gaza, that most of Gaza is an active conflict zone and that we are unable to operate under these conditions.”

Khalidi pointed out that even if there were access for aid groups, there is no way for the UN and other international organisations to deliver it to those most in need under live fire from Israeli soldiers. She said Israeli authorities have not provided any safe routes to warehouses or delivery points for Palestinian civilians.

“The crossings are closed, so what we need is opening them, lifting the restrictions and arbitrary delays and denials by Israeli authorities,” she said, adding that “just dumping aid at the border” is meaningless when none of it reaches people.

Seven-day-old infant dies of malnutrition in Gaza

A seven-day-old baby has become the latest victim to die of malnutrition in Gaza, a source at the al-Ahli Hospital has told Al Jazeera. The child died from a lack of milk, said the source at the hospital in Gaza City.

Earlier, we reported that another infant, Zainab Abu Halib, had died of malnutrition amid critical food shortages in Gaza. More than 120 people have died of malnutrition in the territory since the war began, and more than 80 of the victims were children or babies.

Gaza government warns thousands of infants at imminent risk of death without baby formula

Gaza’s Government Media Office has strongly warned of an “unprecedented and imminent humanitarian disaster” being committed by Israel, saying 100,000 children aged two years and under, including 40,000 babies, are at risk of death within days.

This is due to a “complete lack of baby milk and nutritional supplements, and the continued closure of crossings and prevention of the entry of the simplest basic supplies”, it said in a statement.

“We are facing an expected and deliberate mass killing slowly being committed against infants whose mothers have been breastfeeding them water instead of baby milk for days, as a result of the starvation and extermination policy pursued by the ‘Israeli’ occupation.”

Children cannot survive long in famine conditions, Gaza hospital chief warns

A hospital director in Gaza has warned that children are the group “most vulnerable” to the famine conditions gripping the territory amid reports that two babies have been the latest to die of malnutrition.

Dr Ahmed al-Farra, director of the children’s hospital at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, told Al Jazeera that children cannot survive long without food.

He warned that children face the greatest risk from the critical food shortages afflicting Gaza caused by the Israeli blockade. He said there would be mass deaths if border crossings are not immediately opened to allow aid to flow in.

One, Hood Arafat, was born just a week ago in Gaza City and died as a result of malnutrition due to a lack of milk, a source at al-Ahli Arab Hospital told Al Jazeera. Earlier on Saturday, staff at the Nasser Medical Complex reported that a six-month-old, Zainab Ahmed Abu Haleeb, had also died of malnutrition.

Five people die of starvation in Gaza in past 24 hours

Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip says five people in Gaza have died due to famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours.

Starmer: ‘Humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza must end now’

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called for immediate action to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in a newspaper column outlining efforts by the UK to help.

In a column in the Daily Mirror, the UK leader wrote that the “images of starvation and desperation in Gaza are utterly horrifying”.

“The denial of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people – to children and babies – is completely unjustifiable,” he wrote. “It is a humanitarian catastrophe. And it must end now.”

He said the humanitarian support allocated by the British government to help Palestinians had not been getting into Gaza so the government was scaling up its work.

“News that Israel will allow countries to airdrop aid into Gaza has come far too late – but we will do everything we can to get aid in via this route,” he wrote, adding that British officials were working urgently with Jordanian authorities to get aid onto planes and into Gaza.

He said his government was also speeding up efforts to evacuate children in need of critical medical support from Gaza to bring them to the UK for treatment.

Nothing but talk. Air drops will only make matters worse, they're the very definition of drip feeding next to causing more chaos.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478831
Three C-130 aircraft can drop 37,000 meals for 2 million starving people...  The GHF 'claims' to be delivering 1 million 'meals' a day and look where we are now:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/22/food-aid-gaza-deaths-visual-story-ghf-israel
It didn't provide anything meaningful last year when starvation and malnutrition were much less of an issue, it's nothing but the same stalling technique again. History repeating on a 1 year cycle...

UK has only taken in two, that is 2, medically evacuated children so far
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/19/uk-government-faces-legal-action-over-not-evacuating-critically-ill-children-from-gaza

And UK weapon shipments are still getting through. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz09k48z9v0o

The RAF is also still helping Israel with reconnaissance flights
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25333493.uk-spy-plane-flew-towards-gaza-hours-labour-condemned-horrors/

Starmer and Lammy belong in The Hague before the ICC.

Starmer is doing everything to stall while children are starved to death.

Starving and exhausted doctors call for international intervention in Gaza

Doctors in Gaza are malnourished themselves as they try to help people. We have spoken with doctors who said they are always feeling dizzy, they experience headaches or even fall unconscious.

Starved Palestinian patients and wounded are coming into hospitals every single day under these circumstances. There are no medical supplies, no nutritional resources that those doctors can give them.

Many are forced to leave the hospitals because they can’t provide them any help. We have seen fathers and parents crying at the entrance of the hospitals sometimes because the doctors are helpless.

That’s why Palestinian doctors have been calling on other countries and the international community to let supplies and medicine enter the Gaza Strip. Those who are severely wounded, or suffering from chronic diseases or malnourished cannot be helped at the moment.

Five people killed, including two children, in Israeli drone strike in al-Mawasi

Two children are among five Palestinians killed by an Israeli drone strike in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, sources at Nasser Hospital tell Al Jazeera.

The attack struck a camp housing displaced people in al-Mawasi, which is west of Khan Younis.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 39 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 15 aid seekers.

Israel blames UN again as it reports limited aid pick-up

The Israeli military’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which is in charge of managing aid intended to reach Gaza, claims about 90 food trucks were unloaded at aid crossings on Friday.

It said in a short report that more than 100 trucks of aid were loaded by the UN and international organisations from the Gaza side and distributed.

But the military entity again blamed the UN and others for the hundreds of other trucks filled with aid which are waiting at the border, claiming that “we continue to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid.”

COGAT also released a few images of a World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity food distribution site in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah as proof that aid is getting to Palestinians and that the UN is responsible for any shortcomings.

The WCK said on Friday that after a five-day halt due to the Israeli blockade, its kitchen in Deir el-Balah resumed “limited hot meal service” in Gaza.

The UN has repeatedly pushed back against Israeli claims of blame, pointing to Israel’s well-documented restrictions on aid and staff movement that have left Gaza’s entire population facing the risk of starvation.

UNRWA chief says aid airdrops a dangerous distraction, could kill hungry Palestinians

Philippe Lazzarini says proposed airdrops of aid would be an expensive, inefficient “distraction” that could kill starving Palestinians.

Israel said on Friday that it will allow airdrops of food and supplies from foreign countries into Gaza in the coming days in response to critical food shortages caused by its blockade.

But in a social media post, Lazzarini said the airdrops would “not reverse the deepening starvation” and called instead for Israel to “lift the siege, open the gates [and] guarantee safe movements [and] dignified access to people in need”.

Airdrops, he said, are “expensive, inefficient [and] can even kill starving civilians”. “A manmade hunger can only be addressed by political will,” he said, calling on Israel to allow the UN and its partners to operate at scale in Gaza “without bureaucratic or political hurdles”.

He said UNRWA has the equivalent of 6,000 trucks in Jordan and Egypt “waiting for the green light to get into Gaza”. “Driving aid through is much easier, more effective, faster, cheaper and safer” than airdrops, he said, adding that it is also more dignified for the people of Gaza.

#Gaza: airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians.
It is a distraction & screensmoke.

A manmade hunger can only be addressed by political will.
Lift the siege, open the gates & guarantee safe movements…

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) July 26, 2025

‘Appalling malnutrition in babies, children and adults’: Doctor

Nick Maynard, a British surgeon who has worked in Gaza, says he witnessed Palestinian babies and children dying of malnutrition at Nasser Hospital in the south of the enclave.

Speaking to Al Jazeera from Oxford in the UK, Maynard said his medical colleagues had baby formula taken away from them by the Israeli authorities when they tried to bring it into the Strip.

“The formula feed that’s required for newborns and for infants was in extremely short supply,” he said.

“No formula feed had been delivered to Nasser Hospital for many months and indeed, doctors I knew from America who had specifically brought in formula feed to Gaza because they knew there was such a shortage had their cartons confiscated by the Israeli border guards,” Maynard explained.

“It’s unfathomable why they would do that, but it’s certainly not an isolated incident. I heard it from many people that they had formula feed confiscated so I don’t think it was isolated. I think there was a very deliberate intention to not allow any of that feed into Gaza. But why? One can only speculate.”

Starving Palestinians surround aid trucks in southern Gaza

A handful of trucks carrying humanitarian aid were allowed into the Gaza Strip, prompting thousands of hungry Palestinians to surround them.

Footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency showed the chaos around the Morag Corridor area. Other videos showed Israeli forces firing at civilians awaiting aid in the area, resulting in a number of casualties.

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Palestinian baby Zainab Abu Haleeb dies of malnutrition

The Reuters news agency has shared photos of Zainab Abu Haleeb, a Palestinian baby who died of malnutrition in Gaza.

_{Zainab Abu Haleeb is the latest Palestinian infant to die of starvation due to Israel’s blockade on Gaza}

‘This cannot continue,’ US senator says

Democratic US Senator Chris Van Hollen has hit out at Trump, a Republican, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for replacing humanitarian aid groups in Gaza “with mercenaries – leading to more death and devastation”.

“Every day, the horrors in Gaza reach new, unimaginable depths,” Van Hollen wrote in a social media post.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire while trying to receive aid from the US-backed GHF.

“This cannot continue,” Van Hollen said.