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Israel kills 51 in Gaza, 10 more Palestinians starve to death
Relatives of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City mourn their loved ones at al-Shifa Hospital [Saeed MMT Jaras/Anadolu]
(AL-JAZEERA) Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded 10 deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” over the past 24 hours, including two children, bringing the total number of hunger-related deaths to 313, 119 of whom were children.
Israeli forces also killed 51 Palestinians since dawn on Wednesday, including 12 waiting for aid.
At least 75 Palestinians, including 18 aid seekers, have been killed and 268 injured in Israeli attacks on 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 said.
The latest count brought the total death toll in Israel’s war on Gaza to 62,895, with 158,927 injured, the statement said.
Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory and deputy special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, has told the UNSC meeting that on his recent visit to Gaza, he “was stunned at the scale of the destruction and suffering”.
“I met humanitarian workers risking their lives to deliver aid while themselves living in intolerable conditions. I saw the immense personal toll on the population, including the UN’s own staff, but was also inspired by our staff’s unshakable commitment to do their work as they speak today,” he said via video-link from Jerusalem.
He said that over 22 months of war, “Gaza is sinking deeper in disaster, marked by rapidly mounting civilian casualties, mass displacement”, and that the captives held by armed groups “continue to languish in appalling conditions”.
Alakbarov also addressed Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank, where he said there is an “unprecedented crisis, relentless expansion of settlements, demolitions, [and] intensifying violence”.
Amiz Alakbarov, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory and deputy special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, has told the UNSC meeting that on his recent visit to Gaza, he “was stunned at the scale of the destruction and suffering”.
“I met humanitarian workers risking their lives to deliver aid while themselves living in intolerable conditions. I saw the immense personal toll on the population, including the UN’s own staff, but was also inspired by our staff’s unshakable commitment to do their work as they speak today,” he said via video-link from Jerusalem.
He said that over 22 months of war, “Gaza is sinking deeper in disaster, marked by rapidly mounting civilian casualties, mass displacement”, and that the captives held by armed groups “continue to languish in appalling conditions”.
Alakbarov also addressed Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank, where he said there is an “unprecedented crisis, relentless expansion of settlements, demolitions, [and] intensifying violence”.
Inger Ashing, CEO of Save the Children International, has also told the UN Security Council that the NGO’s clinics in Gaza “are overwhelmed by need, every bench packed with malnourished children and their mothers, yet our clinics are almost silent now. Children do not have the strength to speak or even cry out in agony.”
“They lie there, emaciated, quite literally wasting away – their tiny bodies overcome by hunger and disease, the medical and specialised nutrition supplies they need all but used up,” she said.
“A few kilometres away stand ready a sea of supplies, thousands upon thousands of truckloads of lifesaving items, all blocked,” she said.
“These past few weeks, more and more children have shared that they wish to be dead. One child wrote, ‘I wish I were in heaven, where my mother is. In heaven, there is love. There is food and water.’”
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