At least 54 Palestinians, including 22 people seeking aid, were killed and 831 injured in Israeli strikes across Gaza over the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported. Four more bodies were pulled from rubble of earlier attacks.
In Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, an Israeli airstrike on a home killed at least eight, hospital sources told Al Jazeera. The ministry also confirmed four additional hunger-related deaths, raising the total to 239, including 106 children. Since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid delivery mechanism through the US-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, 1,881 aid seekers have been killed and more than 13,863 injured.
Aid workers, including those from Doctors Without Borders, warned of severe shortages due to Israel’s blockade, describing the situation as a “humanitarian catastrophe.” They said food and medical supplies are stuck at the border while people faint in the streets and medical staff collapse from exhaustion and malnutrition.
Meanwhile, Israel’s far-right government is advancing a settlement plan in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, which critics say would cut off East Jerusalem from the rest of the territory, undermining any future Palestinian state.
Qatar condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “Greater Israel” remarks, calling them provocative and a violation of international law, while the UN reiterated calls for unimpeded humanitarian access to Gaza, warning of “catastrophic” conditions.
The war, now in its 21st month, has killed over 61,776 Palestinians and wounded more than 154,906, most of them women and children, according to Gaza health officials.
In recent strikes, Israeli Strikes Kill 63 in Gaza
