Medical sources reported that seven Palestinians were killed in two Israeli airstrikes targeting the eastern areas of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Seven Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli attack targeting tents housing displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of the city.
West of the neighboring city of Rafah, a Palestinian was killed by Israeli army fire while waiting to receive US-Israeli aid.
Eyewitnesses reported that two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while waiting to receive US-Israeli aid near the Netzarim junction, south of Gaza City.
Medical sources announced the martyrdom of three Palestinians in an Israeli attack targeting the Saftawi area north of Gaza City.
Two Palestinians, including a child, were killed and 12 others injured in an Israeli attack on the Adnan Al-Alami School, which houses displaced persons northwest of Gaza City.
In the northern Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in Jabalia al-Balad. In the central Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a civilian gathering east of Deir al-Balah.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced the arrival of 81 martyrs to hospitals in the Strip over the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from the Israeli aggression to 56,412 martyrs and 133,054 wounded since October 7, 2023.
Children victims of malnutrition
Meanwhile, the Government Media Office in Gaza announced on Saturday that the number of children killed by severe malnutrition since October 7, 2023, has risen to 66.
The government office considered the continued closure of the crossings "a war crime and a crime against humanity, revealing the Israeli occupation's deliberate use of starvation as a weapon to exterminate civilians, especially children, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions."
The office condemned the deaths of Palestinian children from malnutrition and denounced the "shameful" international silence regarding the suffering of Gaza's children, who are being left "prey to hunger, disease, and slow death."
On Friday, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that approximately 112 Palestinian children have been admitted to hospitals in the Gaza Strip every day for treatment for malnutrition since the beginning of the year, due to the stifling Israeli blockade.
Ghebreyesus warned that the situation in Gaza, which is subjected to intense Israeli attacks and a stifling blockade, "has passed the stage of catastrophe."
He also noted that 500 people were killed while trying to obtain food at humanitarian aid distribution points operated by the United States and Israel, but not by the United Nations.
As of Wednesday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that the number of Palestinians killed while attempting to obtain US-Israeli aid near distribution centers since May 27 had reached approximately 549 martyrs and more than 4,066 injured.
"killing field"
In the same context, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said in a statement on the X platform on Friday that "the new aid distribution system in Gaza is a killing field. Instead of orderly food distribution, this system brings chaos and death."
This came in response to a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which stated that "commanders (in the army) ordered troops to fire on the crowds (of Palestinians) to push them away or disperse them (as they gathered near aid centers), even though they posed no threat."
UNRWA reported that "more than 400 starving people have been reported killed since it began just one month ago, shot while trying to get food for themselves and their families."
She pointed out that "testimonies indicate that Israeli forces are firing indiscriminately at gatherings of starving civilians" in the Gaza Strip.
UNRWA reiterated that this system "is far removed from the principle of humanity," emphasizing that it "was not designed to address hunger, but is justified by the misuse of aid, a pretext that has yet to be verified, let alone proven."
The agency called for "an end to this atrocity" by resuming humanitarian aid through the United Nations, including UNRWA.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a war of genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The US-backed genocide left approximately 189,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and a famine claimed the lives of many, including children.
