Israeli attacks on Gaza kill over 80, starvation deaths mount

Aug 06, 2025 News

(AL-JAZEERA) Over 80 Palestinians, including 52 aid seekers, have been killed and 644 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

The count includes eight people – one child and seven adults – who starved to death in the past 24 hours, it said, raising the hunger-related death toll to 188, including 94 children.

Eight bodies were 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 61,020 Palestinians and injured 150,671 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 through the controversial GHF, has reached 1,568, with more than 11,230 injured, the statement said. Khadija al-Rekeb, a Khan Younis resident, has described the aftermath of the Israeli strike that killed at the Palestinians, including an 11-year-old.

“Those killed here were from one family,” she said. “There were also injuries – so many injured children and women. We didn’t hear anything other than the sound of the blast. That is it. And the shrapnel flew around us. They targeted children – they have nothing to do with it.”

The strike hit a group of tents sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, where residents could be seen sifting through the rubble for belongings.

Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 79, starvation deaths mount

Palestinians queue to receive a hot meal in the Gaza Strip [Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu]

At least 52 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza according to hospital sources. Among the dead are 28 people who were seeking aid.

Six people were killed and nine wounded near an aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street south of the Wadi Gaza area after Israeli forces targeted a gathering of civilians, according to al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat.

Despite international calls for increased humanitarian access, Israeli bombardment continues across the enclave.

Several people have been wounded in a settler attack in the western area of Deir Ballut town, west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank.

Wafa news agency reported that a group of settlers attacked Palestinians in the area with pepper spray, causing burns to their faces and eyes.

The central emergency room received 587 patients, while 632 people passed through the hospital’s rapid triage system

Hospital officials reported 512 children were treated in the paediatric emergency section. Another 195 patients were treated in the hospital’s overflow tent, set up to handle excess demand.

Medical staff said they are working under extreme pressure, with critical shortages of supplies, overcrowded wards and limited access to specialist care.

Gaza’s Government Media Office has warned of an intensifying humanitarian catastrophe, accusing Israel of deliberately restricting aid and causing instability in the besieged territory.

Only 95 aid trucks entered Gaza on Monday, the office said in a statement, far below the minimum 600 trucks per day needed to meet basic humanitarian needs, according to UNRWA.

The statement said most of the limited aid was looted due to “security chaos being sowed by the Israeli occupation as part of a systematic policy of engineering chaos and starvation”.

“We condemn the continued systematic starvation, closure of crossings, and denial of aid entry, and hold the occupation and its allies fully responsible for the worsening humanitarian disaster affecting more than 2.4 million people,” the office said.

It also called on the international community to act urgently to reopen crossings and ensure the safe, sustained delivery of food, medicine and baby formula to civilians in Gaza.

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