The occupation continues to target those waiting for aid in Gaza, and the number of famine victims rises to 154.

The occupation continues to target those waiting for aid in Gaza, and the number of famine victims rises to 154.







In the latest attacks, medical sources reported that the number of Palestinian aid seekers killed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Shakoush area, near the US aid distribution point west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, rose from three to six.

Sources said that more than 45 Palestinians were injured when the Israeli army opened fire on aid seekers west of Rafah.

A Palestinian was killed and another injured in an Israeli attack that targeted the Abu Laban family's home near the Latin Monastery Church in Gaza City.

Earlier, sources said that five Palestinians seeking aid were killed and eight others injured by Israeli army fire near the Netzarim axis in the central Gaza Strip.

In a related development, three Palestinians were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting an apartment building near the Dabit Junction, west of Gaza City, according to medics.

In the northern Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses reported that the occupation army was carrying out operations to destroy homes and facilities with booby-trapped robots east of Jabalia al-Balad.

In the southern Gaza Strip, medics said a Palestinian child was shot in the head by Israeli army gunfire in the Bir 19 area of the Al-Mawasi district, west of Khan Yunis.

Eyewitnesses also reported that the occupation army was carrying out bombing operations in the western Satar area of Khan Yunis.

Witnesses added that Israeli artillery shelling and heavy tank fire targeted the western Satar area of Khan Yunis.

In the central Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses said two Israeli suicide drones targeted the minaret of the Abu Salim Mosque east of Deir al-Balah.

Israeli starvation deaths rise to 154 

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Wednesday that the death toll from Israel's ongoing starvation policy since October 7, 2023, has risen to 154 Palestinians, including 89 children.

The ministry said in a statement: "Gaza hospitals recorded seven deaths in the past 24 hours, as a result of famine and malnutrition."

She continued: "This brings the number of famine victims to 154, including 89 children."

Last week, the World Food Programme warned that a third of Gaza's Palestinians have not eaten for several days due to the ongoing Israeli blockade.

"The hunger crisis in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels of desperation, with a third of the population going without food for days at a time," said Ross Smith, director of emergency preparedness and response at the UN agency, in a statement.

According to World Food Programme estimates, a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza are facing famine-like conditions, with 100,000 women and children suffering from severe malnutrition.

Since the genocide began on October 7, 2023, Israel has been simultaneously committing a starvation crime against the Palestinians of Gaza. On March 2, it tightened its measures by closing all crossings to humanitarian, relief, and medical aid, causing famine to spread and reaching "catastrophic" levels.

Although Israel has "allowed" dozens of humanitarian trucks into the Gaza Strip since Sunday, a Strip that needs more than 500 trucks per day as a minimum to save lives, it has facilitated and provided protection for the theft, according to a statement from the government media office in Gaza.

The government office said Monday evening, "No more than 87 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip today, most of which were looted and stolen due to the chaos deliberately perpetuated by the Israeli occupation."

The genocide, with American support, left approximately 206,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that claimed the lives of many.

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