According to health officials, at least 15 Palestinians, including four children, set out in a single day in the besieged Gaza Strip, bearing the total number of malnutrition deaths since the War of Israel began at 101.
Tuesday’s announcement came while Israeli forces continued to beat Gaza, killing at least 81 people, and the United Nations described the situation in the enclave as a “horror show with a level of death and destruction without parallel in recent times”.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that the 15 deaths related to famine in the last 24 hours included four children and that the overall 101 report included 80 children.
Most deaths have occurred in recent weeks.
Among the children who died on Tuesday, there were Yousef al-Safadi, six weeks, died in a hospital in the north of Gaza City, and Abdulhamid al-Ghalban, 13, who died in another medical establishment in southern Khan Younis, according to doctors.
Yousef’s uncle, Adham Al-Safadi, told the reuters news agency that the infant’s mother could not breastfeed because she was not eating and that the family could not find a baby formula to feed him.
“You can’t get milk nowhere, and if you find it, it’s $ 100 for a bathtub,” Al-Safadi told Reuters. “The mother cannot breastfeed. There is no food and drinks, so there is no breast milk. The baby died of malnutrition.”
“ Horror show ” in Gaza
The famine crisis occurs in the middle of a blockade of almost five months by Israel on food, fuel, water and other humanitarian supplies entering the Gaza. Israel cut all the goods of entry into the territory in March, but allowed a aid net from May, mainly through the controversial humanitarian Gaza (GHF).
According to the UN, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians looking for food aid since the GHF began its operations, most of them near the group’s distribution points.
The 81 Palestinians killed on Tuesday include at least 31 help seekers, according to doctors in Gaza.
Fifteen others were killed during an Israeli attack on a building in a displaced accommodation of people in the north of the city of Gaza, according to a source from the Al-Shifa hospital, while 13 others were killed and 50 others injured during a strike on the nearby Shati refugee camp, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, speaking to the Security Council, underlined the “horror show” for the 2.3 million Palestinians in the enclave.
“Malnutrition skyrocketed, famine strikes each door, and now we see the last hayling of a humanitarian system built on humanitarian principles,” he said. “This system is denied space to operate,” denied the space to deliver, “denied security to save lives.”
Guterres said that Israel had intensified military operations in Gaza, in particular by issuing new orders of forced displacement in certain parts of the Central Deir El-Balah, a city which was considered to be the last zone at a safe distance from the band.
According to UN figures, almost 88% of the whole Gaza band is now found in militarized Israeli areas or under travel orders, forcing the population in an open space.
Guterres said the last order was to superimpose the “devastation” devastation.
The staff vanished in service
The doctors of Gaza, on the other hand, said that they saw an increasing number of people suffering from malnutrition arriving in their hospitals.
Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of the Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, told journalists that there could be “alarming numbers” of the deaths due to famine.
Khalil al-Daqran, spokesperson for Al-Aqsa Hospital in Central Gaza, said doctors are unable to help those who suffer from malnutrition.
“Hospitals are already overwhelmed by the number of victims of gunshots. They cannot provide much more aid to the symptoms related to hunger due to food and medicine shortages,” he said.
Deqran said that some 600,000 people suffered from malnutrition, including at least 60,000 pregnant women. Symptoms among those hungry include dehydration and anemia, he said.
Gaza’s health and humanitarian staff also reported work on work due to hunger and exhaustion, according to officials.
“No one is spared: Guardians in Gaza also need care,” wrote Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
Lazzarini continued by saying that the search for food in Gaza has become as deadly as Israeli bombing and denounced GHF’s plans as “a sadistic death trap”.
“Elite shooters open fire at random on the crowds as if they received a license to kill. A massive hunt of people, with impunity. This cannot be our new standard, humanitarian assistance is not the work of mercenaries,” he said.
The Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the largest independent aid organizations in Gaza, also said that its enclave employees are displayed.
“Our last tent, our last food package, our last rescue articles have been distributed. There is nothing left,” said Jan Egeland, secretary general of the CNRC, in Reuters.
“Hundreds of trucks have been seated in warehouses or in Egypt or elsewhere, and have cost our donors from Western Europe, but they are prevented from coming,” said Egeland.
“Israel does not give in. They just want to paralyze our work,” he added.
Israel denies targeting civilians and rejects the responsibility of food shortages in Gaza. The GHF also rejected what he said to be “false and exaggerated statistics” of the UN on the killings on its help sites.
Assault against Deir El-Balah
Humanitarian groups also claim that Israel’s military operations in the center of Deir El-Balah, which is the main center for help efforts, have compromised their ability to operate in the band.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the secretary general of the World Health Organization, said on X that the agency’s staff residence had been attacked three times during the Israeli assault, while his main warehouse was damaged.
The Israeli troops entered the residence, forced women and children to evacuate, and handcuffed and stripped of the staff and family members.
Four staff members were detained and a stay in police custody, he said.
“Who requires the immediate release of the detained staff and the protection of all its staff,” wrote Tedros. “With the non-functional main warehouse and the majority of medical supplies in exhausted Gaza, which is seriously limited in the adequate support of hospitals, emergency medical teams and health partners, already extremely short of drugs, fuel and equipment,” he added.
While the Israeli army said that its operation in the region was now over, the Palestinians who live there could not return.
Hani Mahmoud, from Tel Aviv Tribune, reporting from Deir El-Balah, said residents were afraid of returning home “as they are in the heavy artillery line”. He said that “quadcopters and surveillance drones also hover over the region, creating an atmosphere of intimidation and fear”.
The War of Israel against Gaza – which started after the attacks led by Hamas on October 7, 2023 – killed at least 59,106 Palestinians and injured 142,511. Most of the victims are women and children.
The murders and destruction intervened while counting talks between Hamas and Israel remain at neutral.
The two parties organized indirect talks in Qatar on an American proposal for a 60-day ceasefire, during which Hamas would release more Israelis than it was captive during the October 7 attacks, while Israel would release Palestinian prisoners and allow a wave of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
Although there has been progress, officials claim that a main bonding is the redeployment of Israeli troops after all ceases took place.
In a statement, Hamas called on the Arab nations to break their ties with Israel on its “systematic genocide and its criminal famine” in the enclave.
“We say that official responses and positions do not increase the level of the disaster faced with two million people and quarters of the millions.
“Our inhabitants are hungry while thousands of aid trucks accumulate on the Egyptian side of the crossing of Rafah. We call on the Arab and Islamic countries to separate all links with the fascist occupation entity and to expel the Zionist ambassadors,” he added.