Israeli forces kill 83 Palestinians across Gaza Friday

Aug 02, 2025 News

Palestinians rushed toward a limited number of aid trucks that Israel allowed into Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, August 1, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]

(AL-JAZEERA) At least 71 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza Friday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

That number is among 83 Palestinians, including 53 aid seekers, who have been killed along with the 554 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s health ministry.

One body was also recovered from the rubble of previous Israeli attacks, the ministry statement said on Telegram.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 60,332 Palestinians and injured 147,643 since October 7, 2023, the ministry added.

The total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism, has reached 1,383, with more than 9,218 injured, the statement said.

The sources said 36 people were killed and more than 270 were injured on Friday while seeking food aid.

Meanwhile, Gaza’s health ministry reports that two people in the strip have died from starvation in the last 24 hours.

The ministry said the latest deaths bring the total death toll from hunger during Israel’s war on Gaza to 162, including 92 children.

For the first time, Israeli soldiers Friday used silenced weapons to shoot at starving Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza.

Anas al-Sharif, the Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent in northern Gaza, reported that he spoke to multiple witnesses who confirmed the use of silencers in the Sudanese area near Beit Lahiya, deployed by the Israeli army when targeting people around an aid site.

He said this means the Israeli soldiers were trying to inflict casualties without drawing too much attention to themselves.

The development comes as US envoy Steve Witkoff and ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited Gaza for several hours today to see how food distribution works at a site run by the internationally criticised GHF.

UNICEF’s deputy executive director says the situation in Gaza has crossed the threshold of famine, after he returned from a trip to the Strip earlier this week.

“We now have two indicators that have exceeded the famine threshold,” Ted Chaiban told a media conference on Friday.

“One in three people in Gaza are going days without food. And the malnutrition indicator has exceeded the famine threshold, with acute malnutrition now at over 16.5 percent.”

He said that than 320,000 young children are currently at risk of acute malnutrition in Gaza, and that Israel is still not allowing aid in quickly enough or in sufficient quantities to alleviate the crisis.

He said that UNICEF has 1,500 trucks of aid standing by in Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Turkiye, and that while 33 UNICEF trucks have entered Gaza in the last couple of days, “this is still a fraction” of what is needed.

“We need to flood the Strip [with aid] from all channels, all gates,” he said.

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