117 aid trucks enter Gaza: Al-Qahera News - War on Gaza
This marked the third aid delivery since Wednesday, amid growing international condemnation of Israel's blockade and its mass starvation policy targeting Gaza's population of 2.3 million, which rights groups describe as a 'man-made famine.' Israel's deliberate starvation of civilians has been widely denounced as a tactic of collective punishment and a war crime.
Images of the dead and severely emaciated—many of them children—have sparked mounting global pressure on Israel over the worsening humanitarian catastrophe.
The United Nations (UN) has previously estimated that 600 to 800 aid trucks are needed daily to sustain life in Gaza.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) had earlier warned that malnutrition among children under five had doubled between March and June due to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Since May, Israeli occupation forces have killed nearly 1,000 Palestinians seeking flour at US- and Israeli-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's (GHF) designated 'humanitarian aid centres' across the Strip.
Humanitarian organizations continue to raise the alarm over the soaring rates of malnutrition among children in Gaza, as the blockade remains firmly in place.
Famine deepens, ceasefire talks collapse
On Saturday, an infant, Hud Arafat, died Saturday morning due to severe malnutrition and the lack of baby formula, according to the Palestinian WAFA news agency.
His death brings the number of children who have died from starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours to three, raising the total death toll from hunger-related causes in Gaza to 124.
Medical sources reported that 84 children were among the victims of the mass-starvation policy imposed by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip. This follows the deaths of two other infants from starvation and malnutrition announced on Friday. Over 900,000 children are currently suffering from hunger, 70,000 of whom have entered the stage of clinical malnutrition, placing them at imminent risk of death.
Meanwhile, hopes for a ceasefire faded this week as the United States and Israel abruptly pulled out of the latest round of negotiations with Hamas, despite the group's stated willingness to continue talks. The move drew sharp criticism from international aid groups and regional governments, who have urged renewed diplomatic pressure to halt the war and end the starvation campaign.
Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has claimed the lives of nearly 57,000 Palestinians, primarily women and children, since its outbreak in October 2023.
At least 143,965 others have been injured, with the toll expected to rise as many victims remain trapped under rubble or in areas inaccessible to rescue teams
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