Number of aid seekers killed by Israel in Gaza tops 1,000: UN

Israeli forces person killed much than 1,000 Palestinians arsenic they were trying to entree nutrient successful Gaza since the United States- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operations astatine the extremity of May, according to the United Nations.

“As of July 21, we person recorded 1,054 radical killed successful Gaza portion trying to get food; 766 of them were killed successful the vicinity of GHF sites and 288 adjacent UN and different humanitarian organisations’ assistance convoys,” UN quality rights bureau spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told the AFP quality bureau connected Tuesday, stating the victims had been “killed by the Israeli military”.

On Tuesday alone, Israeli forces killed astatine slightest 43 Palestinians, including 10 assistance seekers, successful attacks crossed Gaza since dawn, a time aft tanks pushed into confederate and eastbound parts of cardinal Gaza’s Deir el-Balah metropolis for the archetypal time.

Israel’s genocidal warfare connected Gaza and humanitarian blockade, which it lone partially lifted successful March, continues to plunge the Palestinian territory into an progressively dire malnutrition situation arsenic astatine slightest 15 people, including 4 children, person died owed to starvation and malnutrition successful Gaza wrong 24 hours, the enclave’s Ministry of Health said connected Tuesday.

One was a kid from Khan Younis successful confederate Gaza, and different was a 40-day-old babe successful the north, according to our colleagues astatine Al Jazeera Arabic. Over the past 3 days, 21 children person died from malnutrition and starvation, the squad reported.

Palestinians shove to person a blistery repast astatine a foundation room successful the al-Mawasi country of Khan Younis successful confederate Gaza connected July 22, 2025 [AFP]

“These deaths were recorded astatine hospitals successful Gaza, including al-Shifa successful Gaza City, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital successful Deir el-Balah and Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis … implicit the past 72 hours,” Mohammed Abu Salmiya, caput of al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, told reporters connected Tuesday.

This brings the full fig of hunger-related deaths successful the Gaza Strip to 101, including 80 children, since Israel launched its warfare connected the enclave aft the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks connected confederate Israel.

The UN bureau for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said much than 1 cardinal children successful Gaza are going hungry.

Rachel Cummings, Save the Children’s humanitarian director, described the concern successful Gaza arsenic “catastrophic”.

Speaking to Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah, she said determination has been nary capable nutrient supplies successful Gaza for a precise agelong time.

The markets are empty, and the h2o sanitation concern is not capable to conscionable the needs of 2 cardinal radical “who are each connected the brink of famine”, Cummings said.

She said that successful Deir el-Balah, she has seen “hungry people, children carrying bare bowls, looking for food, looking for water”.

“We’re seeing an accrued fig of children successful our clinics and our nutrition centres who are malnourished. … We’re besides seeing an summation successful the fig of large women and breastfeeding women who are besides malnourished,” she said, adding: “Everyone successful Gaza is bare now, and adjacent successful my team, I spot visibly my squad are thin, and besides they cannot get nutrient successful the market.”

‘Man-made’ famine

Michael Fakhri, the UN peculiar rapporteur connected the close to food, has called the starvation successful Gaza a “man-made” famine.

“What we are seeing present successful Gaza is the astir horrific signifier of Israel’s starvation campaign,” Fakhri told Al Jazeera.

The UN rapporteur underlined that the International Criminal Court issued apprehension warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and erstwhile Defence Minister Yoav Gallant successful November for “crimes against humanity and warfare crimes” committed during the Gaza warfare – allegations that are partially related to the usage of starvation.

He said the apprehension warrants “create a ineligible obligation: Countries indispensable enactment to halt starvation.”

Medical unit are besides affected by Israel’s starvation tactics arsenic doctors, nurses and different healthcare workers successful Gaza are “fainting owed to hunger and exhaustion”, UNRWA main Philippe Lazzarini said.

“Right now, I americium seeing terrible hunger and starvation amongst some my colleagues and my patients. … I spot radical that conflict to get done a day’s enactment due to the fact that they don’t person the vigor to bash their mean duties,” said Deirdre Nunan, a Canadian orthopaedic surgeon, speaking from Nasser Hospital, wherever she is presently volunteering.

She added that she has seen radical injured successful Israeli aerial raids and attacks connected their tents with terrible multisystem injuries and burns who were malnourished and did not person the quality to “get the other calories and macromolecule that they would usually request to heal from this benignant of wounded and to past it”.

The AFP journalists national has warned that its journalists moving successful Gaza are astatine hazard of dying owed to hunger.

One of its 10 freelancers posted a connection connected societal media connected July 19, saying: “I don’t person the spot to enactment for the media. My assemblage is thin, and I can’t work.”

The AFP quality bureau warned that astir of its workers successful the Strip bash not person the carnal capableness to bash their jobs immoderate longer and the concern is worsening. “Their heartbreaking calls for assistance are present daily,” it said.

Despite the journalists receiving a monthly salary, determination is either thing to bargain oregon nutrient is disposable lone astatine exorbitant prices, the national said. “We hazard learning of their deaths astatine immoderate moment, and this is unbearable for us.

“Since AFP was founded successful August 1944, we person mislaid journalists successful conflicts. We person had wounded and prisoners successful our ranks, but nary of america tin retrieve seeing a workfellow dice of hunger. We garbage to spot them die.”