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Daily Tribune
a day ago
- Daily Tribune
Palestinian Boy Killed by Falling Aid Box in Gaza — Fourth Fatal Air-Drop Incident in Days
A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was killed Saturday after an air-dropped aid box struck him in the head in central Gaza, in the fourth such fatal accident in less than a week, according to medical sources. The victim, identified as Muhannad Eid, was hit in the Al-Nuwairi Hill area west of the Nuseirat refugee camp. He was rushed to Al-Awda Hospital but succumbed to his injuries. Several others were wounded, though their exact number was not confirmed. The incident follows three similar deaths in recent days: a Palestinian man in Gaza City's Al-Yarmouk area, a nurse in Al-Zawaida, and an 11-year-old boy in Khan Younis. Since October 2023, Gaza's Government Media Office says at least 23 people have been killed and 124 injured by falling aid boxes, with some drops landing in Israeli-controlled zones or in forcibly evacuated neighborhoods — putting civilians at risk of direct targeting. Others have fallen into the sea, causing drownings, or into crowded gatherings. Officials and aid agencies have renewed calls for safe, large-scale land deliveries, arguing air-drops are dangerous, ineffective, and chaotic. Israel has kept all Gaza crossings closed since March 2, severely restricting aid convoys despite famine warnings from the UN and humanitarian groups. The World Food Program warns one-third of Gaza's population has gone days without food. The UN says hundreds of trucks are needed daily to meet urgent needs. More than 61,300 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its military campaign in October 2023. Israel faces war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court and a genocide case at the International Court of Justice over its conduct in Gaza.
Qatar Tribune
4 days ago
- Health
- Qatar Tribune
31 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza as hunger crisis grows
Agencies gaza At least 31 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources said, and 20 others were killed when a truck carrying humanitarian aid overturned onto a crowd of people. Among those who died in Israeli attacks on Wednesday were 10 aid seekers killed in various areas of the territory, despite the Israeli army's announcement of 'tactical pauses' in fighting to allow aid distribution. Al-Awda Hospital reported that five people – including a woman and two children – were killed, and others wounded, in an Israeli raid on a house north of the Nuseirat refugee camp. Four more people died in an Israeli raid on two homes in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City. Earlier on Wednesday, at least 20 Palestinians were killed when a truck delivering aid supplies overturned, according to the Government Media Office. The incident occurred as large numbers of Palestinians gathered in central Gaza in search of food and basic supplies amid an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis. Local officials quoted by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the vehicle overturned after Israeli forces directed it down what they described as an 'unsafe road'. Gaza Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said dozens of people were wounded while hundreds of civilians were waiting for aid, the AFP news agency reported. 'Despite the recent limited allowance of a few aid trucks, the occupation deliberately obstructs the safe passage and distribution of this aid,' the Government Media Office said in a statement. 'It forces drivers to navigate routes overcrowded with starving civilians who have been waiting for weeks for the most basic necessities. This often results in desperate crowds swarming the trucks and forcibly seizing their contents.' The incident comes as humanitarian organisations warn of famine and disease spreading across the enclave, while deaths from starvation and malnutrition continue to rise amid severe Israeli restrictions on aid. Hunger crisis At least five people died from malnutrition on Wednesday, medical sources told Al Jazeera. A source at al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza confirmed that Hiba Yasser Abu Naji, a child, died from malnutrition. An infant also died from starvation, according to the source, and an adult from Jabalia was reported to have died as well. According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, at least 193 people – including 96 children – have died from starvation and malnutrition since October 2023. On Tuesday, the Israeli military allowed 85 aid trucks to enter Gaza – far below the 600 trucks a day needed to meet basic requirements, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Meanwhile, Palestinians approaching aid distribution sites run by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) have frequently come under Israeli fire since the organisation launched operations in late May, after Israel slightly eased its total blockade. Such shootings have become near-daily occurrences near GHF sites in central and southern Gaza. 'Time is running out for people in Gaza, and a deal has to be reached between Hamas and the Israeli military that will allow for humanitarian aid to be let into the enclave,' Hisham Mhanna, a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), told Al Jazeera. 'Everyone has suffered enough. We have lost colleagues, we have lost friends, families – everyone in Gaza is impacted,' he said.
Middle East Eye
23-07-2025
- Middle East Eye
Four Palestinians killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid in central Gaza
Al-Awda Hospital says Israeli forces have shot and killed four Palestinians near the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. The victims were reportedly trying to access humanitarian aid when they were targeted by gunfire. Casualties have been mounting in recent weeks as desperate civilians continue to risk their lives searching for food and assistance across Israeli military-controlled zones.
Boston Globe
19-07-2025
- Health
- Boston Globe
32 Palestinians shot dead trying to reach US group's food distribution sites, Gaza authorities say
Israel's army, which isn't at the sites but secures them from a distance, said Saturday that it fired warning shots near Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, after a group of suspects approached troops and ignored calls to keep their distance. It said the incident occurred overnight when the distribution site was closed. GHF said that there were no incidents at or near its sites and added, 'we have repeatedly warned aid seekers not to travel to our sites overnight and early morning hours.' Advertisement Most of Saturday's deaths occurred as Palestinians massed around 2 miles from a GHF aid distribution center near the southern city of Khan Younis. Mahmoud Mokeimar said that he was walking with masses of people, mostly young men, toward the hub. Troops fired warning shots, and then opened fire. 'The occupation opened fire at us indiscriminately,' he said. He said that he saw at least three motionless bodies on the ground and many wounded people fleeing. Advertisement Akram Aker, another witness, said that troops fired machine guns mounted on tanks and drones between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. 'They encircled us and started firing directly at us,' Aker said. He said he saw many casualties on the ground. Sanaa al-Jaberi said that there was shooting after the site opened as people seeking aid broke into a run. 'Is this food or death? Why? They don't talk with us, they only shoot us,' she said, and showed off her empty bag. Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said that it received 25 bodies. Seven other people, including one woman, were killed in the Shakoush area, hundreds of meters or yards north of another GHF hub in Rafah, the hospital said. Dr. Mohamed Saker, the head of Nasser's nursing department, said that it received 70 wounded people. He told The Associated Press that most people were shot in the head and chest. 'The situation is difficult and tragic,' he said, adding that the facility lacks medical supplies. Some of the wounded, including a child, were treated on the floor. One boy stood patiently, holding up a blood bag for someone on a stretcher. Meanwhile, Fares Awad, head of the Health Ministry's ambulance and emergency service in northern Gaza, said that two people were killed in Gaza City when an airstrike hit a tent in a camp sheltering displaced families. In central Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital said that 12 people were killed in an airstrike including police official Omar Aqel. Two children, including an infant, and five women — all relatives of Aqel — were among the dead. Advertisement Al-Awda Hospital said that it also received two people killed by an Israeli strike on a group of people in Bureij, and that another strike on a group of people along Salah El Din street in central Gaza killed a child. Another strike on a house in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan killed at least four people, according to the Health Ministry's ambulance and emergency service. A strike on a cart in Tal al-Hawa in northern Gaza killed another four people, the service said. Israel's army had no comment on specific strikes, but said that it had struck around 90 targets throughout Gaza over the past day. Gaza's population of more than 2 million Palestinians are in a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Distribution at GHF sites is often chaotic. Boxes of food are stacked on the ground and crowds surge in to grab whatever they can, according to witnesses and videos released by GHF. Hamas triggered the 21-month war when militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage. Fifty remain, but fewer than half are thought to be alive. Israel's military offensive has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which doesn't say how many militants are among the dead. The ministry, which says more than half of the dead have been women and children, is part of the Hamas government. But the U.N. and other international organizations see it as the most reliable source of data on casualties. Israel and Hamas have been holding ceasefire talks in Qatar, but international mediators say there have been no breakthroughs. Advertisement 'After 652 days, it is time to do what is right for Israel: Bring all 50 hostages home and end this war,' Efrat Machikawa, a relative of released hostage Gadi Moses, told the weekly rally in Tel Aviv. Thousands of people later marched to the local branch of the U.S. Embassy to demand a ceasefire deal, with many holding posters of hostages. In the occupied West Bank, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the Palestinian Christian village, Taybeh, where residents say extremist Israeli settlers set fire to the Church of St. George on July 9. Huckabee, an evangelical Christian who is normally strongly supportive of Israel, condemned the attack. 'To commit an act of sacrilege by desecrating a place that is supposed to be a place of worship — it's an act of terror and it's a crime,' he said. The West Bank has experienced a surge in settler violence since the start of the war in Gaza. Palestinians say Israeli security forces have done little to stop the violence, and few settlers have been punished. ___ Samy Magdy reported from Cairo. ___ Follow AP's war coverage at
Middle East Eye
13-07-2025
- Health
- Middle East Eye
Israeli forces target civilians, killing two and wounding 15
Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat reported receiving two fatalities and 15 injuries after Israeli forces targeted a gathering of civilians near the Abu Btiḥan station in Al-Zawaida, central Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says in a post on X that a 7-month-old girl, Salam, suffering from serious acute malnutrition, had died today while being treated by its teams. Salam is one of thousands of malnourished children in Gaza, with more cases detected every day, UNRWA added.
