The ministry added that hospitals received 39 martyrs and 491 wounded within 24 hours, including 21 martyrs and 341 wounded victims of the targeting of aid centers. The ministry noted that the number of "living martyrs" has reached 1,743 people and more than 12,590 wounded, while deaths from famine and malnutrition have risen to 212, including 98 children.
In the details of the attacks, five Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire on Saturday while waiting to receive aid in Rafah. Six others, including a child, were killed near an aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street in the central Gaza Strip, and eight people were injured, according to medical sources.
A woman was killed and others were injured in an airstrike targeting an apartment in Khan Yunis. Two Palestinians, including a woman, were killed by army fire near a US aid distribution center south of the city.
Far from the oversight of the United Nations and international relief organizations, Tel Aviv began implementing an aid distribution plan on May 27 through the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation," an organization supported by Israel and the United States but rejected by the United Nations.
In a related context, a 14-year-old Palestinian child was killed and others were injured when an aid box fell from an airdrop west of the Nuseirat camp.
A medical source said that the child, Muhannad Eid, was killed when an aid box fell on him in the "Tall al-Nuwairi" area, west of the Nuseirat camp. He was transferred to "Al-Awda Hospital" as a lifeless body, while others were injured with varying degrees of injury (their number was not specified).
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This is the fourth incident since the airdrop of aid began on July 16, carried out by several countries amid a famine imposed by the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Israel has imposed a suffocating blockade on Gaza for months, closing all crossings to aid since March 2, exacerbating the famine. The World Food Programme warned that "a third of Gaza's population has not eaten for several days," describing the situation as "unprecedented."
For its part, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stated that Gaza residents are suffering from a severe shortage of basic hygiene supplies, and that obtaining soap has become almost impossible. The agency emphasized that the widespread entry of these materials can only take place through the United Nations and its agencies.
The UN agency emphasized that the regular flow of basic hygiene supplies, including soap, shampoo, and sanitary pads, is an urgent necessity, emphasizing that the widespread delivery of this aid to those most in need in the Strip can only be achieved through the United Nations, including UNRWA.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
