According to medical sources, the military has been pounding the besieged enclave relentlessly, with the total Palestinian death toll exceeding a staggering 56, 000.
At least 20 aid seekers were killed on Monday when they were desperately trying to get food for their families to their families at distribution centers run by the controversial US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which the UN has criticized for “weaponization” of aid.
The latest killings are those that target hungry Palestinians who make the risky journey to the food distribution centers. In response to a worsening hunger and looming famine crisis, critics have criticized the locations as “human slaughterhouses.”
Since the GHF began distributions on May 27 and after Israeli attacks on Palestinians close to aid centers have claimed the lives of more than 400 people, and about 1, 000 others.
Hani Mahmoud, a journalist for Al Jazeera from Gaza City, claimed that Israel is engaged in its conflict with Iran while continuing to “kill Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with deadly airstrikes on tents or residential homes.”
“Foodie crowds assemble at food distribution centers in Rafah or the Netzarim Corridor,” the statement read. 13 aid workers have been shot dead as of today. They are one of 30 people killed by Israel’s military in the early hours, according to Mahmoud.
Meanwhile, an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in northern Gaza’s Jabalia claimed the lives of at least four people and injured several others.
Three more brothers, all brothers, were killed by Israeli forces as they went through their damaged home in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza’s al-Salateen neighborhood.
Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp, which had been treating injured people in Israeli attacks along Salah al-Din Street, announced in central Gaza that it had received the bodies of two Palestinians and treated 35 others.
According to Wafa, 16 of the injured were in critical condition and were being taken to other central governorates.
In eastern Gaza City, Israeli artillery also shelled the Shujayea neighborhood.
Since the start of Israel’s 20-month war, there have been more than 56, 000 fatalities in the area, with at least 131, 559 wounded, according to the most recent casualty figures.
Energy crisis
The attacks come as the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) issued a warning that Gaza’s lack of reliable energy sources poses a significant threat to its survival.
In a recent report, the NRC claimed that the “deliberate denial of energy access” undermines “fundamental human needs” in the enclave.
Israel has continued to encircle Gaza with a crippling aid blockade, preventing access to everything from food to medical supplies to desperately needed fuel.
Energy is not about convenience in Gaza; it’s about survival, according to Benedicte Giaever, executive director of NORCAP, an organization that makes up the NRC.
The effects are immediate and devastating when families can’t cook, hospitals go dark, and water pumps stop working. She continued, “The international community must give energy a top priority in all humanitarian efforts.”
Source: Aljazeera
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