Gaza Herald- The Health Ministry in Gaza reported that five more Palestinians, including two children, died from starvation on Tuesday, raising the total number of hunger-related deaths to 227, among them 103 children. These fatalities come amid severe shortages of food, clean water, and medical supplies, as Israel’s blockade continues to choke the flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.
In the past 24 hours alone, at least 89 Palestinians, including 31 people seeking aid, were killed and 513 others injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Many of those killed were struck while waiting in long lines for desperately needed food assistance. The ministry also confirmed that eleven more bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble of homes and buildings destroyed in previous strikes, a grim reminder of the thousands still missing under the debris.
According to the ministry, Israel’s war on Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023, has now killed 61,599 Palestinians and injured 154,088. This staggering toll includes a high proportion of women and children, underscoring the indiscriminate nature of the attacks. Hospitals, already crippled by a lack of fuel and medical supplies, are overwhelmed with casualties and unable to provide adequate care for the wounded.
1,838 aid seekers killed
Since May 27, when Israel implemented a controversial new aid distribution system through the US-based GHF, 1,838 aid seekers have been killed and more than 13,409 injured. Humanitarian groups have condemned the system as unsafe and politically motivated, accusing Israel of using it to further restrict aid access and control the movement of desperate civilians.
The ministry stressed that these figures expose not only the scale of Israel’s relentless military onslaught but also the devastating impact of its siege and control over aid, which have turned hunger into a weapon of war. It warned that the deliberate targeting of civilians, combined with the engineering of famine, amounts to crimes against humanity. The statement urged the international community to take immediate and concrete action to stop the massacres, hold Israel accountable, and ensure unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza, stressing that every day of inaction enables further atrocities and pushes the enclave deeper into catastrophe.
