In one of the deadliest single incidents involving aid seekers since May, Israeli forces killed at least 115 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday as they waited patiently for desperately needed food aid.
Health officials claim that more Palestinians have been injured.
At least 67 people were killed near the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza when an Israeli bomb struck aid gatherings. In the south of the country, there were also six fatalities close to a separate distribution site. 36 Palestinians were killed in similar circumstances the day before.
More than 900 people have been killed trying to access food relief as a result of the death toll since May, bringing the total to more than 900.
The Israeli forces opened fire on Ahmed Hassouna, who was attempting to collect food from a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site, when he attempted to get food from it.
A young man and I were accosted, and they began to shoot gas at us. With the gas, they used to kill us. We hardly managed to escape the air, he claimed.
A wounded elderly man was saved from the gunfire by an additional man, Rizeq Betaar.
There are no ambulances, no food, no life, and no longer a way to live, according to the statement from the group that carried him on the bicycle. We’re just about hanging on. He prayed, “May God comfort us.”
A convoy of 25 aid trucks, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), opened fire shortly after entering Gaza.
The organization stated in a statement that WFP reiterates that any violence against civilians seeking humanitarian aid is completely unacceptable.
Israel’s military denied intentionally attacking aid convoys, but claimed that its forces fired “warning shots” at what it called “an immediate threat.”
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued a warning on Sunday that the Gazan situation has reached “catastrophic” levels, with some children dying before aid arrives.
People are taking their lives to search for food, OCHA said, calling the situation “unconscionable.”
Israel’s ongoing attacks on aid seekers were also denounced by the US-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The ongoing massacres of starving Palestinian women, children, and men who have been denied food by the US and the government are both a human tragedy and an indictment of a Western political order that led to this genocide, according to Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director, in a statement.
Western governments are unable to deny ignorance. They are choosing to do nothing as innocent civilians are purposefully starved, forced to relocate, and slaughtered in real time. The Western world’s indifference to Gaza’s forced starvation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide will stick in history’s minds forever. ”
starvation caused by humans
UNRWA’s head of UNRWA, Phillipe Lazzarini, claimed that Gaza’s staff were ecstatic about the lack of food.
“All created, in complete impunity. Only a few kilometers away, he wrote on X, adding that UNRWA has enough supplies at the border to feed Gaza for three months. However, since March 2, Israel has been preventing aid.
According to Dr. Mohammed Abu Afash, the Gaza-based Palestinian Medical Relief Society’s director, women and children are suffering from hunger.
We are entering the unknown, the author says. He warned of a looming disaster if aid is not immediately given that children are at their highest levels of malnutrition.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza echoed that warning, warning that a number of Palestinians who are dehydrated and malnourished could soon pass away.
We issue a warning that hunger poses the greatest risk of death for hundreds of people whose bodies have been wasted, according to a spokesperson.
According to Palestinian families, the only basic staples are flour. Since the start of the war in 2023, according to the ministry, at least 71 children have died from malnutrition, while 60,000 others have shown signs of severe undernourishment.
It reported 18 deaths tied to hunger alone on Sunday.
Most people in Gaza are unable to afford food because of the rising prices there. 3 million people are battling to survive in Israel’s strict siege arrangements.
A 35-day-old baby in Gaza City and a four-month-old child in Deir el-Balah had both passed away from malnutrition at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, according to Al Jazeera’s reporter from central Gaza, Hind Khoudary.
Khoudary said, “The mother was touching her body and saying, I’m sorry I couldn’t feed you.”
Parents who visit the GHF distribution centers run the risk of killing their children. We ran into a mother who only fills her children’s stomachs with water. She can’t afford flour, and when she could, she couldn’t find it. ”
more forced evictions
More Palestinians are being forced to flee in the meantime. Residents of Deir el-Balah reported air attacks on three homes after Israel issued leaflets warning residents to leave with what little they could carry.
Israel’s military stated that it had not yet entered those areas, but that it would be doing so even if it had been “terrorist infrastructure”.
Hani Mahmoud, a Deir el-Balah-based reporter, reported that “we are facing yet another misleading evacuation order. Palestinians have been killed there since day one despite the instructions to move to al-Mawasi, a rumored safe zone.
Source: Aljazeera
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