At least 62 people were killed, including 19 who were looking for aid in Israeli attacks across Gaza, Tel Aviv Tribune told Tel Aviv Tribune, and two people died of malnutrition in an increasing international indignation in the conduct of Israel during the war.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said Thursday that at least 115 Palestinians were hungry in the enclave since Israel launched his war against Gaza in October 2023. Most of the deaths, many of whom were in recent weeks.
Israel has imposed a total blockade in Gaza in March and has only allowed a net of aid in the territory since the end of May, triggering a disastrous humanitarian crisis and mass famine warnings.
In a statement Thursday, the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) warned that “families are breaking down” in the midst of the hunger crisis.
“Parents are too hungry to take care of their children,” said agency head Philippe Lazzarini in an article on X. “Those who reach UNRWA clinics do not have energy, food or the means to follow medical advice”.
The United Nations Humanitarian Agency OCHA added that Israel prevented it from checking for waiting in distribution centers.
Reporting Gaza City, Hani Mahmoud, Tel Aviv Tribune, said the situation deteriorated, the Palestinians claiming any help they could find.
“Applied famine, forced dehydration and hunger seize the Gaza strip, with more people who are malnourished with malnutrition and a serious acute shortage of food supplies and other basic necessities,” he said.
“According to what we hear about health sources, people ‘immune systems collapse. They cannot fight the many diseases that are spreading because their bodies cannot fight,” he said.
With disastrous conditions on the ground largely unchanged, international conviction continued to grow.
On Thursday, more than 60 members of the European Parliament (MEPS) demanded an emergency meeting to repel actions against Israel in a letter sent to the head of the European Union foreign policy Kaja Kallas.
Addressing Tel Aviv Tribune, Lynn Boylan, Irish member of the European Parliament, accused the leaders of the EU of a double standard with regard to Palestinian life.
“Obviously, Palestinian lives are not seen by the EU elite as equivalent, for example, to Ukrainian lives,” Boylan told Tel Aviv Tribune.
“There is a frightening effect, that if you dare to express themselves against Israel, if you dare to call the war crimes to which you testify, there is immediately a reaction and an attack,” she said.
The indignation among European leaders has also skyrocketed in recent days, with 28 countries earlier this week condemning the blockade of the aid, while calling for an immediate end to the fighting.
On Thursday, the United Kingdom’s government announced that Prime Minister Keir Starmer would appeal with his German and French counterparts, to “discuss what we can do urgently to stop the murder and bring people to the food they desperately need”.
Dishanges of talks
While the humanitarian situation in continuous Gaza of a spiral, negotiations to end the war again broke, the American envoy Steve Witkoff announcing that his team left the negotiations in Qatar early.
It came shortly after Israel announced that he was withdrawing his delegation from talks.
In a statement, Witkoff accused Hamas of having shown “a lack of desire to reach a cease-fire”.
“We will now consider alternative options to bring the hostages home and try to create a more stable environment for the inhabitants of Gaza,” said Witkoff, without developing.
Hamas, which has repeatedly accused Israel of having blocked a cease-fire agreement, said that it had been surprised by Witkoff’s remarks.
“The movement affirms its way of continuing negotiations and engaging in a way that helps overcome obstacles and leads to a permanent cease-fire agreement,” said Hamas in a statement released on Thursday.
US President Donald Trump, on the other hand, continued to put pressure on an agreement, while simultaneously supporting the trips of the Enclave Palestinians to neighboring countries, in what would potentially constitute ethnic cleaning.
France recognizes Palestine
Late Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would officially recognize the state of Palestine to the United Nations General Assembly in September.
Macron said that the decision was “in accordance with the historic commitment (of France) towards a just and lasting peace in the Middle East”.
This decision will make France the largest and undoubtedly the most influential country in Europe to recognize a Palestinian state.
This decision was welcomed by the deputy of the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, who declared that he showed that “France’s commitment to international law and its support for the rights of the Palestinian people on the self -determination and creation of our independent state”.
Israeli officials quickly condemned this decision, the Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, calling him “shame and surrender to terrorism”.
“We will not allow the creation of a Palestinian entity that would harm our security, endanger our existence in danger and undermine our historical law in the country of Israel,” he said.