Medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that Israeli attacks targeted homes, tents housing displaced persons, and gatherings of people waiting for aid, as Israel continues what they describe as a genocide perpetrated over the past 22 months.
In the latest attack, five Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire near an aid distribution point west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Six-month-old Habeeba Marouf was also killed by a bullet fired by an Israeli drone while she was in her family's tent on Al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City.
Two Israeli airstrikes targeted homes in the Shujaiya and Zeitoun neighborhoods of eastern Gaza City, killing eight Palestinians, including children.
In a separate incident, five Palestinians died of injuries sustained when a truck carrying food aid overturned in the central Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll to 25.
Prior to that, a family of five—a father, a mother, and three children—were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. More than 20 people, most of them children, were injured.
Targeting aid distribution points
The Palestinian Government Media Office announced that the incident that led to the truck overturning was the result of the occupation forcing the driver to use unsafe roads, which led to the accident. The statement considered that Israel was deliberately endangering civilians as part of what it described as "engineering chaos and starvation," noting that this policy has led to the martyrdom and injury of hundreds of civilians in recent months.
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The statement added that the occupation army is forcing aid truck drivers to use roads crowded with hungry civilians, which leads to attacks on the trucks and the confiscation of their contents, creating chaos.
Severe shortage of food and medical supplies
The Government Media Office in Gaza also announced that only 853 aid trucks entered the Strip over the past ten days, out of approximately 6,000 trucks that were supposed to arrive to meet minimum humanitarian needs, reflecting a severe shortage in the flow of supplies.
The office stated in a statement posted on Telegram that the average number of trucks per day was only 85, while the minimum required was no less than 600 trucks per day to meet the health, food, and service needs of the Gaza Strip's population.
The statement indicated that the trucks were distributed between July 27 and August 5, with higher entry rates in the first days (112 trucks on July 30 and 109 on July 29), before the numbers decreased to 36 trucks on August 2, reflecting a clear fluctuation in the movement of aid entry.
For its part, the World Food Programme warned that "a third of Gaza's population has not eaten for several days," describing the humanitarian situation in the Strip as "unprecedented" in terms of levels of hunger and despair, given the continued blocking of aid entry or control over its distribution outside UN supervision.
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 American-backed genocide left more than 211,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and a famine that claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children.
