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38 people were killed in an attack by an ISIL-linked rebel group, according to families in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At least 43 people have been killed in the Allied Democratic Forces’ alleged attack on the church in Komanda, northwest of the nation.

Israel’s Ministry of Health reports that at least 60,034 Palestinians have been killed since the region’s war broke out in October 2023.

At least 62 Palestinians, including 19 aid seekers, have been killed since dawn, according to medical sources who told Al Jazeera on Tuesday despite “pauses” in fighting to deliver crucial humanitarian aid.

According to local reports, Israel used booby-trapped robots, tanks, and drones in what residents described as one of the bloodiest nights in recent weeks, according to Tareq Abu Azzoum, a reporter from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

Israel has not yet confirmed the goals of the attack, but this indicates a potential Israeli ground manoeuvre, he said.

According to a recent report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global hunger monitoring system, the latest attacks occur in Gaza as the “worst-case scenario of famine” is occurring.

According to the report, “the most recent data indicates that famine thresholds have been exceeded for food consumption in the Gaza Strip and for acute malnutrition in Gaza City.”

The IPC document added that the crisis has reached an alarming and deadly turning point as a result of persistent conflict, widespread displacement, severely restricted humanitarian access, and the collapse of essential services, including healthcare.

One in three people have gone without, which has significantly reduced their food consumption. food for a while, the statement said.

Between April and mid-July, more than 20,000 children were admitted for acute malnutrition treatment in the first half of July. Over 3,000 of them suffer from severe malnutrition.

More than 500,000 people are anticipated to be in a state of extreme food deprivation, starvation, and destitution by September, according to its most recent analysis released in May, unless Israel lifts its blockade and stops its military campaign.

At least 147 people, including 88 children, have died from malnutrition since the start of the war, according to the Health Ministry on Monday, citing Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza and the humanitarian blockade that it lifted partially in March.

One million women and girls in Gaza are facing the “unthinkable choice” of starvation or risking their lives while searching for food, according to Sima Bahous, the executive director of UN Women.

In a social media post, Bahous demanded a permanent ceasefire, the release of captives, and unrestricted access to humanitarian aid.

Particularly impacted by babies

According to Ahmed al-Farra, director of paediatrics and maternity at Nasser Hospital, doctors are seeing severely malnourished babies at Gaza’s hospitals, which are “without muscles and fat tissue, just the skin over the bone.”

Because children still have their central nervous system in their first three years of life, the long-term effects of malnutrition are severe, according to al-Farra.

The folic acid, B1 complex, and polyunsaturated fatty acids that are necessary for the central nervous system’s composition are not present in malnourished babies.

Al-Farrah claimed that future cognitive development may be impacted by malnutrition, which could make learning to read and write difficult, and which could lead to depression and anxiety.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) member Tanya Haj Hassan points out that serious health risks persist even after food is redeemed.

According to Hassan, “malnutrition impacts all aspects of the body’s function,” the problem doesn’t end when the food arrives.

This alters every cell in your body, according to the doctor. The cells pass away in the intestines. That causes issues with bacteria absorption. Your pancreas struggles; It’s challenging to absorb fat.

Your heart cells get thinner and weaker. The heart rate decreases as a result of the connections being affected. Even when these children are receiving refeeding, these children frequently pass away from heart failure, she continued.

They also have salts that can cause fatal shifts; These can also cause fatal heart rhythms. In reference to oral rehydration salt solutions, which are typically given to people who are malnourished, the doctor said, “They are more prone to sepsis and shock.”

As his August 1st tariff deadline approaches, governments have been arguing over who can concession Trump. The US president’s biggest victory to date came on Sunday when Ursula von der Leyen, the head of a vassal state honoring an emperor, visited Trump’s private golf course in Scotland to pay him homage.

Brussels agreed to a significant tariff increase and made a pledge to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on US military and fossil fuels as part of an entirely one-sided tariff pact.

The relationship between the world’s two largest economies has changed as a result of the pact. Simply put, the EU has rolled over in a row. A European diplomat lamented by saying “those who don’t hang together get hanged separately,” while French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou described it as a “dark day” for the union.

The rest of the world’s economy is likely to suffer even more. Trump has waged an economic war against both friends and foes. Many nations are unable to defend themselves and are subject to higher tariffs than the EU. Brussels has made it more difficult for other nations to stand up for themselves by giving in.

For instance, a 40% tariff on Laos or a 36% tariff on Cambodia will harm the export-focused industries that US corporations have supported for decades. And other nations are reluctant to discuss the situation without a united front.

Before the US president made it known, it was unclear if Manilla had fully consented to the arrangement, which Trump announced last week with the Philippines, which would apply to all products exported to the US and exclude any imports. Indonesia’s deal is even worse because it has to relinquish controls over its important mineral exports and aspects of its emerging digital economy, both of which are crucial to its economic growth. US demands for Brazil go beyond the economic realm, with Washington even going so far as to try to obstruct former president Jair Bolsonaro’s prosecution.

Although the terms of various trade agreements vary, they all have the same goal: to pressure governments into altering their laws and regulations, particularly those that favor US business interests.

Trump’s approach to trade negotiations may be wildly erratic, but his ultimate goal is to replace unfair rules with absolute dominance from the biggest bully in order to upend the world economy.

The nations that are subject to this restructuring will suffer as a result, but this won’t be the end of the story. They have strengthened Trump’s hand by granting him what he wants, and he will return.

The EU already has little understanding of the impact of the proposed “deal” that the US president might enter. In order to obtain a deal, Canada removed its digital services tax from Big Tech, only to be hit by higher tariffs. Despite making concessions, the Philippines is now subject to a higher tariff than it was in April. And the UK eventually discovered it had no such thing, really.

None of this is fair. Trump doesn’t respect weakness, so his only option is to stand up for him.

For nations that have signed a deal, it means putting as little into practice as possible. Retaliatory governments are encouraged to do so. That doesn’t necessarily equate using the tools that have the best strength, which would be a policy that could lead to serious self-harm, but rather matching tariff for tariff.

By restricting US corporations’ access to, for example, government contracts, financial markets, and intellectual property protection, the EU should have retaliated.

The EU showed a profound ignorance of the present situation by refusing to take such measures. Van der Leyen appears to believe that Trump is a temporary anomaly that can be contained while the industry waits for a new business model to emerge in four years.

However, the general public has had enough of a corporate-dominated global economy in Europe and the US. There is no way to go back to that world. Retaliatory measures like those described above can help to lessen the influence of the monopolies at the heart of our deeply unfair, unsustainable economy by maximizing the pain being caused to Trump’s oligarchic friends.

This crucial last point. Because we cannot get there by handing Trump unnecessary victories if we want him to be gone, as millions of Americans do. Trump came to power by establishing a bridge between those who oppose a corporate-dominated economy and the wealthy. It was a remarkable achievement. However, he will only remain in power if the alliance endures.

The key is now how governments can best safeguard their economies over the long term, and that means regaining sovereignty rather than giving it to the White House bully. In addition, this action can reveal Trump’s true identity as a corporate lobbyist and pave the way for his eventual demise.

“All children are hungry,” the saying goes. We are inebriated. A Palestinian family in Gaza, which has been living under Israel’s policy of starvation, lives here today. During a pervasive famine, a video depicts the difficulties they encounter as they try to get food from a charity kitchen.