Israel kills at least 1,760 people seeking aid in Gaza since May

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Israel kills at least 1,760 people seeking aid in Gaza since May – UN

By Tim Hume, Nils Adler, Maziar Motamedi and Edna Mohamed

Published On 16 Aug 202516 Aug 2025

• At least 25 Palestinians, including 12 aid seekers, killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza today.
• The UN human rights office says at least 1,760 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid in Gaza since late May, a jump of several hundred since its last published figures at the beginning of August.
• Eleven people, including a child, have starved to death in Gaza in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of hunger-related deaths in the famished enclave to 251.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,827 people and wounded 155,275. 

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  Israeli settlers raid Palestinian tents in northern Jordan Valley

  In further settler violence in the occupied West Bank, a number of armed Israeli settlers have raided tents belonging to a Palestinian man in al-Farisiyah village, Wafa news agency is reporting.

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  • Israel’s attacks continue across Gaza, including an attack on aid seekers in the Zikim area in the northwest of Gaza, which killed six people, while two others were killed near an aid distribution centre near Rafah.
  • Eleven people, including a child, have starved to death in Gaza in 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
  • The director of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, has told Al Jazeera that the lives of more than 200 patients at the facility are in danger due to malnutrition and acute shortages of medicine.
  • Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said Netanyahu “is now a problem in himself”, adding that she would try to put pressure on Israel over its war on Gaza, as her country currently holds the EU presidency.
  • In the occupied West Bank, four Palestinians have been wounded in an attack by Israeli settlers north of Hebron near the town of Halhul, while another person has been shot and wounded by Israeli forces in al-Eizariya, a town bordering occupied East Jerusalem.