Israeli forces have killed 11 Palestinians since morning
The number of Palestinians killed includes four aid seekers.
Gaza's health ministry said on Thursday that at least 115 Palestinians have starved to death in the enclave.
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- Middle East Eye
Current aid distribution model in Gaza is 'engineering chaos and massacres', MSF says
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders said in a statement on Friday that more than 600 aid seekers were treated for injuries in northern Gaza after Israeli soldiers opened fire on them. Caroline Willemen, MSF project coordinator in Gaza, said: "On 30 July, as people approached trucks distributing aid near Zikim, in north Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire on them. "People were wounded in the gunfire and in the crush as crowds panicked and ran. Medical staff at the MSF-supported Sheikh Radwan clinic in north Gaza treated 77 injured patients and received eight people dead on arrival. "Across north Gaza, nearly 600 people were treated for similar injuries following violence and chaos near Zikim that night, according to the Ministry of Health, as food trucks were passing." Willemen said such deadly incidents have become "a daily reality in Gaza for too long now" and the current methods of distribution are "engineering chaos and massacres" while Palestinians risk their lives in a desperate search for food.
Gulf Today
an hour ago
- Gulf Today
Gaza mother worries time running out for evacuation of malnourished daughter
Stroking the hair of her emaciated daughter on a hospital bed in Gaza City, Nasma Ayad fears time is running out for a medical evacuation of the malnourished eight-year-old to avoid the fate of her sister, who died last month. "I feel I'm slowly losing my daughter, day after day - everything she's suffering from is multiplying," Ayad said. With few medical supplies and limited food, treating malnourished Palestinian children with complicated conditions in war-shattered Gaza has become increasingly difficult, according to medical staff and humanitarian agencies. Jana received treatment for malnutrition last year at an International Medical Corps clinic in the central town of Deir Al Balah after showing signs of weakness and delayed growth. Jana Ayad lies on a bed as she receives treatment at a hospital in Gaza City on Thursday. Reuters Though she improved, the frequent interruption of healthcare services and increasing scarcity of food - as Israeli forces who control all access to Gaza have kept up their offensive against Hamas militants - led to a relapse, Ayad said. She weighs just 11 kilogramme (24 pounds) and has trouble seeing, speaking or standing up. "She started having an edema, which is fluid retention that makes the limbs and the body swell and store water because of the lack of protein and food," said Suzan Marouf, a therapeutic nutritionist at Patient Friend's Benevolent Society Hospital. Jana's sister, Joury, died on July 20. The child had kidney problems exacerbated by malnutrition, her mother said. Jana Ayad lies on a bed as she receives treatment at a hospital in Gaza City. Reuters Gaza's spiralling humanitarian crisis prompted the main world hunger monitoring body on Tuesday to assess that a worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding, and that immediate action is needed to avoid widespread death. Images of emaciated Palestinian children have shocked many around the world. Gazan health authorities have reported more and more people dying from hunger-related causes. The total now stands at 156, among them 90 children, most of whom died in the past few weeks. Jana Ayad rests on a bed as she receives treatment at the International Medical Corps field hospital. File / Reuters Ayad had hoped both her girls could be evacuated to safety to receive treatment outside the Gaza Strip. Health officials had added them to a list of patients who were in need of evacuation last September. But the evacuations never transpired. Though it was too late for Joury, her mother still holds out some hope for Jana. "I am calling for the urgent referral of Jana as soon as possible to be treated outside the country," she said. With the international furore over Gaza's ordeal growing, Israel announced steps over the weekend to ease aid access. But the UN World Food Programme said on Tuesday it was still not getting the permissions needed to deliver sufficient aid. Reuters
Middle East Eye
9 hours ago
- Middle East Eye
WHO calls for opening of Gaza crossings and demands 600 trucks be allowed daily
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization has demanded that the crossings into Gaza be opened and that 600 trucks be allowed into the enclave daily, Al Jazeera has reported. "The situation in Gaza is a man-made disaster that will end with the entry of aid. Airdropping aid is not a solution; the solution is to bring trucks into Gaza," the spokesperson said. The UN human rights office has said that 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while waiting for aid in Gaza since late May. "In total, since 27 May, at least 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food; 859 in the vicinity of [US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] sites and 514 along the routes of food convoys," the UN agency's office for the Palestinian territories said in a statement. "Most of these killings were committed by the Israeli military," it added.
