At least 61 people were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, including at least two aid seekers, while the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, warns that malnutrition rates among children increase in the besieged enclave.
At least 23 people were killed and dozens of others were injured in an Israeli air attack on the SHATI refugee camp in northern Gaza on Tuesday, medical sources in Tel Aviv Tribune told.
In southern Gaza, at least two women were killed and 30 others were injured near a point of aid distribution north of Rafah, led by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) controversial.
The UN said that at least 875 people died while trying to access Gaza since the end of May, when the GHF started to operate.
Earlier, the Palestinian civil defense said that its teams “transported at least 18 martyrs and dozens of injured since dawn”, most of which after Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza.
The Israeli army also issued a forced displacement order for Palestinians living in 16 northern areas of Gaza.
Among the affected areas is Jabalia, a ravaged city where residents were fleeing fear and panic.
“People use their cars and donkeys to evacuate the area, and all go to the unknown; they don’t know where to go,” Moath al-Kahlout said Tel Aviv Tribune.
“They are also struggling with transport because there is no fuel to move from here and other areas. So the situation is very chaotic. Everyone who lives here is in a state of panic. ”
An Israeli strike also struck a tent at Gaza City Housing, the displaced Palestinians, killing six people, according to Civil Defense Agency.
Growing malnutrition
Tuesday, separately, the Gaza health teams for UNRWA warned that malnutrition rates are increasing, especially since the Israeli seat was tightened more than four months ago.
According to General de l’UNRWA, General Philippe Lazzarini, one in 10 children projected since 2024 was poorly fed.
In a press release, the agency called malnutrition in the “Engineering and artificial” band.
The warning comes as the European Union’s foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss possible measures against Israel for its assault against Gaza if the humanitarian situation does not improve.
EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas proposed 10 potential options on Tuesday after Israel concluded a cooperation agreement between the two parties for reasons of human rights.
The measures range from the suspension of the entire agreement or the reduction of trade links to the sanction of Israeli ministers, to the taxation of an arms embargo and to travel without visa.
Despite increasing anger at the devastation in Gaza, the EU states remain divided on how to tackle Israel, and there was no agreement on taking measures at the meeting on Tuesday.
“We will keep these options on the table and we will keep ready to act if Israel does not respect its promises,” Kallas told journalists. “The objective is not to punish Israel. The goal is to really improve the situation in Gaza. ”
The meeting in Brussels came following the agreement forged by Kallas and the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Saar. The Saar met the EU leaders on Monday after accepting last week to allow food and fuel desperately necessary in the coastal enclave of 2.3 million people, who endured more than 21 months of fatal aggression of Israel in the middle of a paralyzing blockade.
“The border passages have been opened, we see more trucks.
The details of the agreement remain vague, but EU officials have rejected any cooperation with GHF on ethical and security problems.
Call for sanctions
European nations such as Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain have increasingly called the EU’s ties with Israel to be reassessed in the war, which killed more than 58,000 Palestinians – mainly women and children.
A report by the European Commission revealed that the “indications” according to which the actions of Israel in Gaza violate human rights obligations in the agreement governing its links with the EU, but the block is divided on how to respond.
The public pressure on the conduct of Israel in Gaza has made the new humanitarian agreement possible, the Dutch foreign minister, Caspar Veldkamp, said, adding: “This force of the 27 EU member states is what I want to maintain now.”
Kallas will update EU member countries every two weeks on the quantity of aid that really passes Gaza, said Irish Foreign Minister Thomas Byrne.
“So far, we have not really seen the implementation, perhaps very small actions, but there is still a slaughter in progress; there is still a denial of access to food and water,” he said. “We have to see the action.”
The Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares Bueno said that the details of the agreement were still being discussed and that the EU would monitor the results to see if Israel was conforming.
“It is very clear that this agreement is not the end-we have to stop the war,” he said.
There have been regular demonstrations across the continent, including a small Tuesday outside the European Council, where ministers discussed the aid plan.
Dozens of demonstrators in Brussels have called for more aggressive actions to stop Israel’s offensive in the widely destroyed Gaza Strip, where famine is looming and the health system is on the verge of collapse.
Alexis Deswaef, vice-president of the International Human Rights Federation, said the EU “should now agree on a set of sanctions so that Israel ends the genocide and humanitarian aid to enter Gaza”.
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Human rights groups have largely called insufficient EU actions.
“It is more than political cowardice,” said Agnes Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International. “Whenever the EU does not act, the risk of complicity in Israel’s actions increases. This sends an extremely dangerous message to the authors of atrocity crimes that they will not only be unpunished but will be rewarded.