Israeli forces killed more than 1,000 Palestinians when they tried to access food in Gaza since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the United States and Israeli (GHF) began operations at the end of May, according to the United Nations.
“As of July 21, we recorded 1,054 people killed in Gaza while trying to obtain food; 766 of them were killed near GHF sites and 288 near the UN and other convoys of humanitarian organizations,” said the victims of the UN Office of the AFP press agency “said Tuesday.
Only on Tuesday, Israeli forces killed at least 43 Palestinians, including 10 help seekers, in attacks by Gaza since dawn, one day after the tanks pushed for the first time in the southern and east parts of the city of the Gaza de Deir El-Balah.
The genocidal war of Israel against Gaza and the humanitarian blockade, which it only partially did in March, continues to plunge the Palestinian territory into an increasingly disastrous malnutrition crisis while at least 15 people, including four children, died due to famine and malnutrition in Gaza within 24 hours, the Ministry of Health of the Endlave declared on Tuesday.
One was a child from Khan Younis in the south of Gaza, and another was a 40 -day baby in the North, according to our colleagues from Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic. In the past three days, 21 children died of malnutrition and famine, the team reported.
“These deaths were recorded in Gaza hospitals, notably Al-Shifa in Gaza City, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir El-Balah and Nasser at Khan Younis hospital … in the last 72 hours,” Mohammed Abu Salmiya, head of the Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza on Tuesday.
This brings the total number of deaths related to hunger in the Gaza Strip at 101, including 80 children, since Israel launched his war against the enclave after the attacks of October 7, 2023 led by Hamas against southern Israel.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said that more than a million children in Gaza are hungry.
Rachel Cummings, Save the Children’s Humanitarian Director, described the situation in Gaza as “catastrophic”.
Addressing Tel Aviv Tribune de Deir El-Balah, she said that there were no adequate food supplies in Gaza for a very long time.
The markets are empty and the situation of water sanitation is not sufficient to meet the needs of 2 million people “who are all on the verge of famine,” said Cummings.
She said that in El-Balah, she saw “hungry people, children carrying empty bowls, looking for food, looking for water”.
“We note an increased number of children in our clinics and our nutrition centers that are poorly fed.
Famine “ artificial “
Michael Fakhri, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, described famine in “artificial” Famine Gaza.
“What we now see in Gaza is the most horrible phase of Israel’s famine campaign,” Fakhri told Tel Aviv Tribune.
The United Nations rapporteur stressed that the International Criminal Court had published arrest mandates against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant in November for “crimes against humanity and war crimes” committed during the Gaza War – allegations which are partly linked to the use of famine.
He declared that the mandate arrest “creates a legal obligation: countries must act to stop famine”.
Medical staff are also affected by Israel’s famine tactics as doctors, nurses and other health workers in Gaza “vanish due to hunger and exhaustion,” said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.
“Right now, I’m seeing a serious hunger and a famine among my colleagues and my patients. … I see people who have trouble going through a working day because they do not have the energy to do their normal tasks,” said Deirdre Nunan, a Canadian orthopedic surgeon, speaking of Nasser hospital, where she is currently volunteering.
She added that she had seen people injured in Israeli air raids and attacks on their tents with serious injuries and multisystem burns that have been badly nourished and did not have the capacity to “obtain calories and additional proteins which they would normally need to cure this type of injury and survive”.
The Union of AFP journalists warned that its journalists working in Gaza are at risk of dying due to hunger.
One of his 10 freelancers published a message on social networks on July 19, saying: “I don’t have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work.”
The AFP news agency has warned that most of its strip workers no longer have the physical capacity to do their work longer and that the situation aggravates. “Their heartbreaking calls for help are now every day,” he said.
Despite journalists who receive a monthly salary, there is nothing to buy or that food is only available for exorbitant prices, the union said. “We risk learning their death at any time, and that is unbearable for us.
“Since the AFP Foundation in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts. We injured and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers having seen a colleague starving. We refuse to see them die. “