Israeli Forces Have Killed Over 1,000 People Seeking Food In Gaza Since May, UN Office Says

DEIR AL-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) has been killed more than 1,000 Palestinians while trying to buy food since May In the Gaza StripClose to the aid areas of mostly managed by An American contractorThe UN Human Rights Office said on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, according to local health officials, Israeli strikes killed 25 people in Gaza.

More than 2 million helplessness in Palestinian territory, experts Under the risk of famine Israel’s blockade and about two years of attack. The breakdown of the law and order led to widespread looting and Chaos and violence around help delivery.

Israel accuses Hamas of getting rid of help without evidence of widespread misleading and blames the UN agencies for not delivering the food it allows. The Army says he’s just making warnings near the aid areas. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli -backed American contractor, rejected the United Nations that they were “wrong and exaggerated statistics”.

Gaza Health Ministry, operated by Hamas and assigned by medical experts, said in a statement on Tuesday that 101 people, including 80 children, have died of hunger in recent days.

Deaths could not be confirmed independently, but UN officials and major international aid groups say that hunger conditions exist in Gaza. During the hunger crises, people may die of malnutrition or common diseases or injuries that the body is not strong enough to fight.

In May, Israel alleviated a 2½ -month blockade and made a long -standing UN system and a newly created GHF. The aid groups say it’s not almost enough.

In the hope of a bowl of juicy tomato soup, dozens of Palestinians, who are lined up outside a help kitchen in Gaza, on Tuesday. The lucky ones took a small eggplant pieces. When the ingredients were exhausted, people who hold the pot pushed and pushed to stand out.

Nadia Mdoukh, a pregnant woman who was displaced from her home and lives in a tent with her husband and three children, said that she was worried about being pushed or chewing and day temperatures as it progresses above 90 F.

Orum I’m doing this for my children, ”he said. “This famine – no bread or flour.”

The UN World Food Program says Gaza’s hunger crisis has reached a “new and surprising level of helplessness”. Ross Smith, the agency’s emergencies director, told reporters on Monday that approximately 100,000 women and children suffered from severe acute malnutrition and that one -third of the Gaza population went without food for a few days.

Medglobal, a charity working in Gaza, said that five children under 3 months have died of hunger in the last three days.

“This is a deliberate and human -made disaster,” he said. “These children died because there was not enough food in Gaza and there was not enough medicine, including IV fluids and therapeutic formulas.”

Philanthropy, food is such a short supply that his staff experienced dizziness and headache.

According to the UN Human Rights Office, 766 out of 1,054 people killed while trying to buy food since the end of May were killed on the way to the sites operated by the Gaza Human Foundation. Others were killed when gunfire exploded around the UN convoys or aid areas.

UN Rights Office Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan says that its figures come from multicolor reliable sources on the ground, including health officials, human and human rights organizations. He said the figures are still confirmed according to the solid methodology of the office.

Palestinian witnesses and health officials say that Israeli forces regularly fire in the crowds of thousands of people going to GHF areas. The army says that he only made warning shots and that GHF’s armed contractors fired only several times Try to prevent stamped.

A common expression 28 Compatible with the West On Monday, he condemned the “drop -of -aid feeding and inhuman killing of civilians”.

The United Kingdom, France and Israel signed by other friendly countries, said, “Israeli government’s aid distribution model is dangerous, nurturing instability, and deprives of human dignity,” he said. “It is unacceptable for the Israeli government to reject the basic humanitarian aid to the civilian population.”

Israel and the United States refused to express Hamas for extending the war with the release of hostages that were kidnapped in a militant’s attack on Southern Israel, which triggered the war on October 7, 2023, not accepting the conditions of Israel for the ceasefire.

Hamas said he would release the remaining hostages only in exchange for a permanent ceasefire and Israel withdrawal. Israel said it would continue to fight until Hamas was defeated or disarmed.

According to local health officials, Israeli strikes killed at least 25 people in Gaza on Tuesday.

At least 12 people in a strike hit the people who have changed people in the refugee camp in the city of Gaza. Shifa HospitalHe took the wounded. The Israeli army said that their forces were not aware of such a strike.

In his statement to the Associated Press, the dead include three women and three children. Authorized, thirty -eight other Palestinians were injured.

Hospitals, Gaza in the city of aid trucks waiting for the crowd of the Palestinians on a night of the strike killed the strike eight. According to Palestinian Red Crescent, at least 118 people were injured.

Mohammed Issam, who is in the crowd and said that some people were managed by trucks in the chaos, said, “A bag of blood and death,” he said. “How long will this humiliation last?”

The Israeli army had no interpretation of this strike immediately. Israel blames the deaths of Palestinian civilians in Hamas, because militants operate in densely populated areas.

Israel renewed its attack in March and then a surprise bombardment Ending an earlier ceasefire. Negotiations about another ceasefire were dragged for weeks US President Donald Trump’s pressure.

The militants led by Hamas kidnapped 251 people in the October 7 attack and killed about 1,200 people. It is still believed that less than half of the 50 hostages in Gaza are alive.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 59,000 Palestinians were killed during the war. The count does not distinguish between militants and civilians, but the ministry says that more than half of the dead are women and children. The UN and other international organizations see this as the most reliable data source for losses.

Magdy reported from Goldenberg from Cairo and Jerusalem. Jamey Keaten, the Associated Press writer in Geneva, contributed to this report.

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