Israeli forces continue pounding Gaza, after killing at least 63 Palestinians in attacks across the Strip, including children and aid seekers

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Israel pounds Gaza; protesters across globe denounce Gaza City famine

By Caolán Magee and Usaid Siddiqui

Published On 24 Aug 202524 Aug 2025

• Israeli forces continue pounding Gaza, after killing at least 63 Palestinians in attacks across the Strip, including children and aid seekers.
• Authorities in Gaza have denounced Israel’s plans to expel medical workers from Gaza City as its military continues its push to seize the city and forcibly displace about 1 million people.
• Thousands of people have taken to the streets of cities around the world after a UN panel officially declared famine in northern Gaza following months of Israel’s blockade on humanitarian supplies, including food and water.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 62,622 people and wounded 157,673

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  One killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Zeitoun

  A source at the al-Ahli Hospital says a Palestinian has been killed and several more wounded in an Israeli attack on the eastern Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City.

  The attack comes as Israeli forces intensify their assault on the northern city amid plans to seize it and force a million Palestinians to the south to concentration zones.
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  Nasser Hospital unable to cope with rising cases of malnourished children

  The head of the children’s department at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis says the health crisis in southern Gaza has reached “a catastrophic level”, warning that the facility can no longer cope with the number of malnourished children seeking treatment.

  In a post on the hospital’s Facebook page, Dr Ahmed al-Farra said the facility would need “ten hospitals the size of the Nasser Complex” to handle the increasing number of cases of children suffering from malnutrition.

  There are currently 25 children hospitalised in critical condition, including those lying on the floor due to a lack of beds, he said.

  One in four children in Gaza is already suffering from malnutrition, and between 60,000 and 75,000 children in southern Gaza alone are at risk, he continued, calling the figures “horrifying and unprecedented”.

  “The malnutrition clinic in Nasser, which can only operate two days a week, receives more than 120 cases in a few hours, ten times the previous rates,” he said.

  Some children, al-Farra added, arrive at the hospital after losing their lives outside its gates “due to lack of milk and treatment”.

  

  A medical staff member prays in a room, designated for sterilising surgical tools, which also serves as a rest and prayer space for doctors and staff [File: Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]