Second 160-plus aid truck convoy carrying aid enters starving Gaza in 48 hours: Al-Qahera News - War on Gaza
The aid shipment, the second of its size since Wednesday, came amid wide global condemnation of Israel's starvation policies in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in a famine for over two million Palestinians in Gaza.
On Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said nine more died of malnutrition, raising the death toll of Palestinians who lost their lives due to hunger in July to 49.
Since 1 March, as part of its genocidal war on Gaza, Israel imposed an all-out blockade on the strip, preventing any food, water or medical supplies from entering the territory.
Since May, Israeli troops have killed nearly 1,000 aid-seekers at US/Israeli so-called humanitarian aid centres distributing flour.
The population had no access to meat, poultry, fish, or milk for nearly five months.
The Israeli partial lift of the all-out blockade on Gaza in the past 48 hours comes amid mounting international pressure on Israel over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the strip, as images of tens of dead or near-death emaciated people in Gaza, including children, have sent shivers down the spines of millions around the world.
The UN has previously estimated that 600-800 humanitarian aid trucks are needed daily to keep the Gaza population alive.
Aid groups have continued to warn of surging numbers of malnourished children amid the Israeli blockade.
On Thursday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that a quarter of the young children and pregnant or breastfeeding mothers it had screened at its clinics last week were malnourished, a day after the United Nations said one in five children in Gaza City were suffering from malnutrition.
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