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Israel kills over 94 in Gaza as UN warns of high rate of child deaths
…UN says 28 children killed every day
Palestinians wait to receive food from charity kitchen in Khan Younis [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]
(AL-JAZEERA) At least 94 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza over the last 24 hours, including 36 aid seekers, as the United Nations warns that 28 children are dying each day from Israeli bombardment and lack of aid.
The UN’s children’s fund has decried the scale of children being killed in Gaza, which it says averages out to 28 a day – “the size of a classroom”.
“Gaza’s children need food, water, medicine and protection. More than anything, they need a ceasefire, NOW,” said the UN agency.
Another 439 Palestinians were wounded in the past 24-hour reporting period, it said in a statement. Among the dead were 29 people killed while attempting to collect humanitarian aid.
The ministry said the total number of people killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war has now reached 60,933, with 150,027 wounded. Since March 18 alone, when Israel broke a ceasefire deal, Israeli attacks have killed 9,440 people and wounded nearly 38,000.
Civil defence crews continue to report that victims remain trapped under rubble and on roads inaccessible to ambulances.
The Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis has received hundreds of patients across its emergency and outpatient departments in 24 hours as bombardment and displacement continue to strain Gaza’s collapsing health system.
At least 38 people died after arriving at the facility over the 24-hour period, hospital officials said in a post on Facebook, while another 132 people were treated for injuries.
The hospital’s central emergency room received 581 patients while 741 people were seen at the outpatient clinic and 250 visited the internal medicine tent, set up to handle patient overflow. A total of 166 people were admitted for further care.
Medical staff said they are working under extreme pressure with critical shortages of supplies, overcrowded wards and limited access to specialist care.
In addition to more than 1,300 people confirmed killed while approaching GHF-run aid distribution sites in the besieged Gaza Strip, many other aid seekers remain missing, leaving families trapped in an agonising wait.
One anguished father, Khaled Obaid, has been searching for his son Ahmed, who disappeared months ago while trying to reach the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza for aid.
“He went to bring aid to help me, his brother and sister, who lost her husband in the war,” Obaid told Al Jazeera. “He hasn’t returned.”
“He went because we are hungry. We have nothing to eat. Life has become unbearably expensive, and we have no money to meet even our basic needs,” added Obaid, who said he has reported Ahmed’s disappearance to all official bodies but has received no information.
Similarly distraught is Asmaa Khrais, whose husband, Fadhi, failed to return several weeks ago after heading to the Morag Corridor in southern Gaza in search of aid.
“He went out to get some flour,” Khrais, a mother of six, told Al Jazeera.
“For nearly three weeks, we had been grinding lentils to make some food for our children. He had no choice but to go seek aid near the Morag Corridor. Since then, we’ve heard nothing from him.”
Paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) say they have recovered the bodies of two Palestinians and treated 11 injured people after Israeli forces targeted a group of civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in central Gaza.
In a statement posted to social media, the PRCS said the casualties occurred in the Netzarim Corridor, a stretch of land in central Gaza that Israeli forces have turned into a militarised zone.
Footage shared by the PRCS shows the aftermath. In one clip, medics carry a wounded man into the back of an ambulance before rushing him to a nearby medical facility.
Another video shows paramedics wrapping a body in a white blanket. Other footage captures a man with his arm in a sling being wheeled into hospital alongside other wounded people.
A day earlier, the PRCS said one of its own team members had been killed and two injured in what it said was an Israeli attack on its headquarters in Khan Younis.
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