Israeli attacks killed at least 71 Palestinians looking for humanitarian aid in the midst of a hunger crisis in Gaza, Tel Aviv Tribune told Tel Aviv Tribune, as hospitals in the besieged territory recorded seven additional deaths of famine and malnutrition.
On Wednesday, at least 51 people were killed and more than 648 others were injured by Israeli forces while they were heading for the Zikim passage point for aid trucks entering northern Gaza, according to the Gaza government media office.
20 other people looking for aid were killed near the so-called Morag corridor near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the Nasser medical complex reported.
More than 1,000 Palestinians in search of aid were killed by Israeli forces close to aid distribution sites led by the United States and the GHF supported by the United States, which launched operations at the end of May.
The GHF has been strongly criticized by the UN and other humanitarian organizations for not having provided enough aid and for the disastrous security situation in and around its aid distribution sites.
Attacks are involved, while assistance agencies and health officials warn against a sharp increase in famine, especially in children and the elderly.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said that 154 people, including 89 children, died of malnutrition, most of them in recent weeks. A global hunger instructor said on Tuesday that a famine scenario was taking place.
Among those who find it difficult to survive, Jihan Al-Quraan, a mother who spoke to Tel Aviv Tribune while holding her young daughter. “Look at his stomach! There is no flesh, just bones of lack of food-an entire month without bread,” she said.
Al-Quraan said she tried to gain food in a crowded popular soup, but had returned empty-handed. “I only found dry pasta shells on the ground,” she added.
Despite the assembly needs, the assistant to the Gaza entry remains well below the required levels. Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesperson for UNRWA, the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, the authorized aid net in Gaza “did not reach the majority of the population.”
According to the UN, Gaza needs at least 500 to 600 aid trucks per day to meet the basic humanitarian needs. However, only 269 trucks have entered the territory in the last four days.
“Most of them were looted by hungry crowds,” said Tareq Abu Azzoum d’Tel Aviv Tribune de Gaza. “Now, looting aid is not very shocking. It was a predictable result for an extended period of a hungry population which has been denied access to water, food and medical supplies. ”
“People have spent days without getting food,” he added. “The number of trucks sent to the Gaza Strip does not meet the needs of the population.”
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that it had documented the death of dozens of elderly people in travel camps “due to famine, malnutrition or lack of treatment”.
“Many of these deaths have been recorded as natural causes, due to the absence of a clear report mechanism within the ministry and the tendency of families to immediately bury their relatives,” the group said in a press release on X.
He added that hospitals and primary care centers have experienced an “unprecedented increase” of daily deaths in the past two weeks, with hundreds of elderly people arriving in “extreme exhaustion states, in search of nutritional liquids”.
Israeli bombing continues
On Wednesday, at least 15 other people were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, Tel Aviv Tribune told Tel Aviv Tribune.
This includes the minimum of three people, including the Palestinian photojournalist Ibrahim Mahmoud Hajjaj, 35, were killed in two distinct Israeli air strikes in Gaza City. A strike has targeted a group of people near the Az-Zahra school in the central district of Daraj, killing two and injuring others. A second strike in eastern Gaza City killed Hajjaj.
According to the committee to protect journalists, 178 journalists were killed during the War of Israel against Gaza since October 7.
Since the start of the war, Israeli attacks have killed at least 60,138 Palestinians and injured more than 146,000 others, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. It is estimated that 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the attack by Hamas on October 7, and more than 200 others were taken in captivity.
Threat of annexation of Gaza
Meanwhile, an Israeli minister hinted at the possibility of annexing Gaza parties – a decision that could be remaining hopes for a two -state solution and further anchor the occupation of Israel in violation of international law.
Accusing Hamas of trying to drag into cease-fire talks to obtain Israeli concessions, the member of the security firm Zeev Elkin told the public broadcaster Kan that Israel could give the group an ultimatum to conclude an agreement before expanding its military actions.
“The most painful thing for our enemy is to lose land,” he said. “A clarification of Hamas that the moment when they play games with us, they will lose land that they will never return would be an important pressure tool.”
The remarks occurred only a few days after the Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu said that the Israeli government “advanced the destruction of Gaza”.
“The government is rushing to make Gaza destroy,” said Eliyahu at the Haredi radio station Kol Barama. “Thank goodness, we destroy this evil. We are pushing this population which was educated on” Mein Kampf “, he declared, referring to the autobiographical and political work of 1925 by Adolf Hitler, the leader of the German Nazi party.
The comments of Eliyahu attracted a generalized indicative, in particular of the own coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. However, Israeli media reports suggest that the government is preparing a formal ultimatum in Hamas: accept their terms of ceasefire or faces the annexation of the territory.
The Israel channel 13 reported that Israel could seek to annex adjacent land to the Gaza perimeter fence, pushing up to one kilometer inside the band.
These threats arise as negotiations continue between Hamas and Israel, with mediation from the United States, Qatar and Egypt. Channel 12 reported that Israel had proposed a 60-day ceasefire which would include a partial withdrawal of Gaza troops, but not the end of the war.
An American official confirmed that Steve Witkoff’s special envoy would go to Israel on Thursday to discuss the “next steps” to approach the situation. Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump said he expected the centers to be set up to feed more people in Gaza.
But for many Palestinians on the ground, these promises remain far from the daily fight for survival.
