Israeli-induced hunger kills 124 in Gaza, as infants starve to death
Two infants have become the latest Palestinian children to die from malnutrition amid Israel’s war and blockade on the Strip, as the total number of starvation deaths in the territory rises to more than 120, including more than 80 children.
At least 25 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn on Saturday, including 13 aid seekers.
A former US soldier who worked for the notorious GHF in Gaza tells BBC that he had “without question … witnessed war crimes” in the killing of civilians seeking food aid.
Leaders of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom called on Israel to immediately lift its blockade on aid supplies entering the famished Palestinian territory.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 59,676 people and wounded 143,965. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.
- Israeli army bombs Gaza 100 times in 24 hours, expands ground assault
The Israeli military reports that its warplanes attacked more than 100 “terror targets” across Gaza over the past day to support their invading ground forces.
In southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, the Israeli army claimed its 36th Division is operating to “expand combat against additional targets and destroy terror infrastructure”.
In a joint statement with security agency Shin Bet, it said they collaborated to kill a Palestinian fighter who was trying to carry out an explosive attack against Israeli forces. It also said combat tunnels and weapons caches were destroyed.
- Seven-day-old infant dies of malnutrition in Gaza
A seven-day-old baby has become the latest victim to die of malnutrition in Gaza, a source at the Al-Ahli Hospital has told Al Jazeera.
The child died from a lack of milk, said the source at the hospital in Gaza City.
Earlier, we reported that another infant, Zainab Abu Halib, had died of malnutrition amid critical food shortages in Gaza.
More than 120 people have died of malnutrition in the territory since the war began, and more than 80 of the victims were children or babies.
- Civil Defence workers recover 12 bodies in southern Gaza
The Gaza Civil Defence reports that members of its teams in Rafah and Khan Younis in the southern part of the enclave have managed to gain access to an area previously attacked by the Israeli military after coordination with Israeli authorities and the UN.
They recovered the bodies of 12 killed Palestinians from the Morag area north of Rafah, and the remains are being transferred to the Nasser Hospital, it said in a short statement.
The Israeli army has separated both Rafah and Khan Younis from other areas in Gaza by building two military corridors, including the Morag Corridor that has also been a point of contention in the ceasefire talks. The bodies of many Palestinians killed in the area are still missing.
- Senior Hamas figure rejects Trump’s description of ceasefire talks
Senior Hamas official Izzat al-Risheq has disputed US President Donald Trump’s assessment of the Gaza ceasefire talks after the US leader said Palestinian negotiators “didn’t really want to make a deal”.
In a post on Telegram, al-Risheq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the comments from Trump and his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff did not “align with the progress of the negotiation process, which was actually witnessing progress”.
He said the statements from Trump and Witkoff – who said Hamas was not “acting in good faith” as US negotiators cut short negotiations over a ceasefire in Qatar – overlooked “the real impediment to all agreements, which is the Netanyahu government”.
He said Hamas had shown a lot of flexibility in the talks and was eager to reach a comprehensive agreement to put an end to the suffering in Gaza.
He called on the US to stop “exonerating the occupation and providing it with political and military cover to continue the war of extermination and starvation”.
- Israeli settlers and soldiers launch attacks in West Bank’s Bethlehem, Jericho
Israeli settlers have again stormed the village of Shallal al-Auja north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank and grazed their livestock inside Palestinian land and property.
A local Bedouin rights official told the Wafa news agency that settlers have continued their incursions from an illegal outpost nearby, and are trying to exploit Palestinian water sources, as well.
Meanwhile, in Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers launched a new raid today after killing a 31-year-old Palestinian man in the area, whose body is still being held by the Israeli authorities.
Another raid was reported in the town of Burqin, west of Jenin, where several Palestinian homes were ransacked by Israeli forces. (Aljazeera)
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