According to health officials, at least 15 people have died from starvation in the besieged Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including a six-week-old baby.
Yoursef’s family, according to his uncle, Adham al-Safadi, was unable to locate baby formula for six-week-old.
He told the Reuters news agency, “You can’t find milk anywhere, and if you do find any, it’s $100 for a tub.”
Abdulhamid al-Ghalban, 13, who passed away in a hospital in Khan Younis, was one of the 15 people who died on Tuesday from starvation.
At least 101 people have died from hunger and malnutrition since Israel launched its assault on Gaza in October 2023, according to the Gaza-based Ministry of Health. 80 of those victims are children. The majority of the deaths occurred recently.
Since Israel stopped all deliveries to the territory in March, Gaza’s food stocks have run out. The US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is largely unrelated to the UN, then partially lifted the blockade in May, allowing a small flow of aid to enter the territory and be distributed by it.
The UN rights office reports that more than 1, 000 Palestinians have died since May while attempting to get aid, mostly close to GHF distribution points.
Phillipe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, described the aid distribution program as a “sadistic death trap.”
The ‘GHF’ distribution scheme is a “sadistic death trap,” according to the author. According to Lazzarini, who spoke on X on Tuesday, “snipers open fire randomly on crowds as if they are given a license to kill.”
Israel accuses Hamas of swindling aid without providing proof of widespread divergence, and it points fingers at UN agencies for omitting food that Israel has allowed in.
The GHF disputed what it called “false and exaggerated statistics” from the UN.
“Horror show”
Lazzarini also warned that doctors and other humanitarian workers in Gaza were becoming drowsy and starving while on duty.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the situation of the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza as a “horror show” with “a level of death and destruction without precedent in recent times.”
Guatemala’s statement to the UN Security Council read, “We are witnessing the last gasp of a humanitarian system built on humanitarian principles.” The conditions are being removed from that system.
According to Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, malnourished Palestinians were “every moment” arriving at the hospital’s remaining functioning, and warned of ” alarming numbers” of deaths as a result of starvation.
Hospitals are already overburdened by the number of gunshot wound victims. Because of food and medication shortages, the spokesperson for Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Khalil al-Daqran, said, “They can’t provide much more help for hunger-related symptoms.”
According to Deqran, at least 60 000 pregnant women were among the 600 000 people who were battling malnutrition. He claimed that dehydration and anaemia are common among those who are experiencing hunger.
Aid organizations, doctors, and residents claim that baby formula is in a critical shortage while Gaza is plagued by widespread goods shortages caused by Israeli restrictions.
In response to the “synthetic genocide and criminal starvation” in the enclave, Hamas claimed in a statement that it was “time to break the restrictions” and allow for more aid to enter Gaza. Hamas also expressed surprise by the” silence “of Arab and Islamic countries” in the area.
Deadly attacks continue to happen.
At least 81 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on Tuesday, according to medical sources, including 31 aid-seekers.
At least 13 people were killed and more than 50 were hurt in Israeli strikes on the Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, according to Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense.
According to a source at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, an Israeli attack on a building that housed displaced Palestinians resulted in the deaths of 15 people, including six children.
Israeli airstrikes hit residential areas in the eastern part of the city, particularly the Zeitoun neighborhood, according to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, who is a reporter from Gaza City. He claimed that a “group of people” was struck.
The attacks come a day after Israeli tanks for the first time since the deadly assault started to invade Deir el-Balah in central Gaza’s southern and eastern regions.
Despite claims by the Israeli army that its assault on Deir el-Balah has come to an end, many Palestinians are unable to return to their homes because they are in the firing line of heavy artillery, according to Mahmoud.
“The area is also surrounded by quadcopters and surveillance drones, creating a sense of fear and intimidation,” Mahmoud said.
On Tuesday, Bassal, the Civil Defense Agency, reported that two people died in Deir el-Balah.
Up until the Israeli offensive this week, the area was thought to be the only area in the tiny Strip that was considered to be largely safe, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
In displacement camps, there were about 30 000 people.
Nearly 88 percent of the Gaza Strip’s population is now being forced into an ever-crowding space, according to OCHA, who estimates that the population is now threatening evacuation or living in militarized areas.
Meanwhile, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, accused Israeli troops of allowing them to interview male employees at gunpoint and handcuff them into their homes.
Source: Aljazeera
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