GAZA Herald- The United Nations confirmed that at least 1,500 Palestinians have been killed since May while trying to obtain humanitarian aid in Gaza, a shocking testament to the deadly conditions imposed by Israel’s ongoing blockade and bombardment.
According to UN spokesperson Farhan Haq, civilians have been repeatedly targeted along aid convoy routes and at distribution points. “Many people reportedly continue to be killed and injured, including those seeking food,” Haq said, highlighting the grim reality that even humanitarian corridors have become zones of death.
Tragedy struck again on Sunday when an Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian Red Crescent medic in Khan Younis. The medic had been providing emergency care in the field, one of countless examples of health workers paying the ultimate price for trying to save lives under fire.
The so-called aid initiative backed by the US and Israel, launched in late May, has come under widespread condemnation. Humanitarian agencies and Gaza’s officials have slammed the effort as ineffective and even deadly, a “death trap” for starving Palestinians forced to risk their lives for food.
When pressed by Anadolu Agency about the UN’s credibility amid its failure to halt Israel’s escalating war crimes, Haq defended the organization’s broader record. He acknowledged, however, that political paralysis within the UN Security Council has blocked meaningful intervention in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Government Media Office revealed that just 674 aid trucks have entered the besieged enclave since July 27, a mere 14% of the minimum daily requirement of 600 trucks. The office accused Israel of systematically engineering chaos, stating that many of the trucks that did enter were looted by desperate civilians after the occupation forces deliberately fostered lawlessness and hunger.
The Israeli military has openly defied growing global calls for a ceasefire, continuing a scorched-earth assault on Gaza since October 7, 2023. Nearly 61,000 Palestinians have been killed in the onslaught, almost half of them women and children, while hundreds of thousands more are displaced, starving, and trapped in what rights groups have called an unfolding genocide.
As international outrage grows, Palestinian voices continue to demand urgent action not only to end the massacre but to hold Israel accountable for using hunger, displacement, and death as tools of war. For now, Gaza’s streets remain littered with the bodies of those who died seeking bread.
