Authorities in the Palestinian-occupied Gaza said that in Gaza, at least 66 children have died from malnutrition as a result of Israel’s war, praising the more stringent Israeli siege that has hampered the entry of milk, nutritional supplements, and other food aid.
At least 60 Palestinians were killed, 20 of whom were killed in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, according to the statement released by the government media office in the Gaza area on Saturday.
Israel’s deadly blockade, according to the media office, is a “war crime” and highlights its “deliberate use of starvation as a weapon to kill civilians.”
The office criticized “the shameful international silence regarding the suffering of children who are left to fall prey to hunger, disease, and slow death” as well as “this ongoing crime against children in the Gaza Strip.”
Additionally, it alleged that “this catastrophe” involved Israel, as well as its allies, including the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, and called on the UN to immediately intervene and reopen the crossings into Gaza.
The UNICEF agency issued a warning days later that the number of malnourished children in the Gaza Strip was “alarmingly rising”. According to the report, at least 5, 119 children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years old were all admitted for acute malnutrition in May alone.
The figure, according to UNICEF, is nearly 50% higher than the 3,444 children who were admitted in April, and 150 percent higher than the ceasefire’s effect in February, when significant aid was arriving in Gaza.
According to Edouard Beigbeder, the organization’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, “16, 736 children – an average of 112 children per day – have been admitted for treatment for malnutrition in the Gaza Strip in just 150 days,” according to the agency’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.
“Everyone of these situations can be avoided. They are being prevented from getting the food, water, and nutrition treatments they so desperately need, he continued. “Man-made choices that are killing lives,” Israel must urgently permit the extensive movement of life-saving aid across all border crossings.
North Gaza is being increased by Israel’s attacks.
Palestinians were decrying the 60 people who were killed in Saturday’s Israeli attacks. After two consecutive Israeli strikes flatten several residential buildings, leaving at least 20 people dead, rescuers in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighborhood continued searching for survivors.
The victims included nine children, roughly.
A private number called the family’s residential area, forcing us to evacuate the entire block, and we were sitting in peace. The block is almost completely destroyed, according to one resident, Mahmoud al-Nakhala, according to Al Jazeera.
It’s heartbreaking that people watch what’s happening in Gaza, the suffering and the massacres, and remain silent, “but we still don’t know why two three-story homes were targeted.” We are unable to even comprehend what is happening right now,” he said.
Following a second airstrike on tents containing displaced people in Gaza City, the bombings in Tuffah came after.
At least 13 people were killed, many of whom were children.
A person was shot and killed close to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution point in southern Rafah, among others.
Since the contentious organization started conducting operations on May 19th, Israeli forces have killed more than 550 people at and near the GHF sites, according to officials in Gaza.
Hani Mahmoud, a journalist for Al Jazeera from Gaza City, reported from Gaza City that Israel continues to impose severe restrictions on the movement of supplies between the Gaza Strip and the GHF as the only source of food.
Because of the deliberate and ongoing shootings of aid seekers there, “a lot of people here are trying to stay away from the GHF’s centers,” Mahmoud said. Staying away is not a solution, because going to bed hungry means that children will not have food packages.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated on Friday that the US-backed operation in Gaza was “inherently unsafe” and “killing people” while aid organizations have condemned the GHF’s “militarized” operations.
According to one soldier, one of the soldiers described the scenes as “killing field,” according to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper.
The claim was refuted by the Israeli military.
The GHF’s aid distribution system in Gaza is “abomination and utter disgrace,” according to Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding.
He told Al Jazeera, “It is an inversion of all the fundamental principles of global humanitarian law: neutrality, impartiality, and independence.”
According to Doyle, “around 550 Palestinians have died trying to get food there, to travel by foot, to travel for a long distance, and then the families worry whether they’ll ever return again,” she said.
He continued, citing the situation as another illustration of how “Israel is completely and unafraid of any international law or rule of war.”
Source: Aljazeera
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