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Israel kills over 20 in Gaza amid rising starvation deaths
- Six more Palestinians have died of forced starvation and malnutrition in besieged Gaza, the Health Ministry says, bringing the total number to 175 people, including 93 children.
- Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 22 people so far today, including 16 aid seekers, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.
- Monitoring group Action on Armed Violence reports that no findings have been made in 88 percent of Israeli military probes into alleged war crimes since October 2023.
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Gaza hunger crisis deepens as aid blockade continues
Gaza’s hunger crisis is accelerating, with at least 175 people, including 93 children, confirmed dead from starvation, according to the Health Ministry in the besieged territory.
The situation has worsened since Israel blocked all aid to Gaza on March 2, halting trucks from entering the enclave with much-needed supplies.
The rollout of the controversial US- and Israeli-backed GHF group in late May has come under heavy criticism. Since then, Israeli forces have routinely fired on Palestinians trying to get food at GHF-run distribution sites in Gaza, with some 1,400 Palestinians killed while attempting to access aid at its four distribution sites.
UN and other humanitarian officials say Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries, though partially lifted in recent days, have left Palestinians starving and struggling to find enough food to feed their families.
Amid growing international condemnation of the crisis, Israel has said it is increasing aid deliveries to Palestinians, including via airdrops.
But humanitarian groups say airdrops are dangerous and inefficient, and they have called on Israel to open up all the crossings into Gaza to allow assistance to flow freely to Palestinians in need.
Human rights groups and UN officials accuse Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war, while a global hunger monitor has warned that the “worst-case scenario of famine” is currently unfolding in Gaza.
Palestinians in Gaza barter for survival as Israel’s war collapses the banking system - 31m ago(10:00 GMT)
Expert likens Israeli-run Gaza aid sites to Squid Game
Neve Gordon, from London-based Queen Mary University, says the Israeli-run GHF “is not a humanitarian organisation; this is a famine profiteering organisation”.
“The UN has 400 sites through which it distributes food. This organisation put up four sites. It put them within zones that are in the midst of the conflict. And what we have been witnessing is a kind of Squid Game or Hunger Game, where people that are starving are approaching the food and are being shot down like prey,” he told Al Jazeera from London.
“This is clearly not about providing humanitarian aid but about providing camouflage for Israel so it can continue its onslaught on Gaza.”
Gordon added that civil society in the United States and Europe is seeing through television and Al Jazeera’s reporting what’s going on in Gaza and is outraged.
“But it’s our leaders who talk the talk but have double standards and are unwilling to sanction Israel, put pressure on Israel. And instead continue to arm Israel as it carried out this genocide,” he said.
“We need to start thinking how our leaders here in London, throughout Europe and the United States are actually complicit with this genocide and starvation. And bring them to court, if not the ICC [International Criminal Court], then through universal jurisdiction in local courts.”
Members of a private US security company, contracted by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group which the UN refuses to work with over neutrality concerns, direct displaced Palestinians as they gather to receive relief supplies at a distribution centre in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, 2025. [Eyad BABA/AFP]
UN prefers to work with Hamas, because they have neutrality ?????
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