17 Starving People Killed by Israeli Forces While Seeking Aid near GHF Aid Site in Central Gaza
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least 17 starving people were killed on Sunday by Israeli forces while seeking food near an aid site run by the controversial US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in central Gaza, where Israel’s targeting of aid seekers has become a grim daily reality.
According to medical sources at al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza, 17 people were killed this morning while seeking aid near a GHF aid distribution site close to the Netzarim Corridor, among them women and children.
The killings came as people in Gaza are starving to death, with the death toll from hunger and malnutrition rising to 133, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, including 87 children.
Over 100 humanitarian organizations, including Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and Oxfam, warned on Wednesday that “mass starvation” is spreading across Gaza, with their colleagues in the enclave wasting away from hunger as Israel continues to block the entry of aid for more than four months.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are “on the verge of catastrophic hunger,” with one in three people in the enclave going days without food.
Health officials in Gaza issued a stark warning lately: Hundreds of severely emaciated Palestinians are on the verge of death, their bodies too weak to resist any longer.
The UN confirmed that Israel is still blocking food from reaching starving Palestinians with only a few trucks of aid having reached Gaza.
Moreover, Israeli mass killings of aid seekers near GHF aid sites have become a grim daily reality amid chaotic scenes, as desperate Palestinians are given only a narrow window to rush for food and are targeted by Israeli forces.
Palestinians in Gaza and the UN described these sites as “mass death traps” and “slaughterhouses”.
Since the GHF started its operations on May 27 in Gaza, over 1000 aid seekers have been killed by Israeli forces and American mercenaries and over 60,000 others injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Additionally, 49 others have been reported missing after heading to the GHF sites to obtain food.
