Israeli strikes kill aid-seekers, families, and journalists
At least 68 killed and 326 wounded in 24 hours; famine deaths rise past 220 as Israel blocks aid
GAZA, Palestine (MNTV) — Sixty-eight Palestinians were killed and 326 injured in the past 24 hours as Israeli forces pounded Gaza. The Health Ministry stated that 29 people were killed while seeking aid.
On Monday morning, Israeli forces struck Khan Younis and Gaza City, killing at least 10 people, some in tents sheltering displaced families. Fresh attacks on the north and south killed 23 more, including 10 children.
The hunger crisis deepened as five more people, including a child, died from malnutrition, raising Gaza’s starvation toll to 222, and 101 of them were children. Most of these deaths occurred in the past three weeks after Israel blocked nearly all aid since March 2.
The World Food Program warns one-third of Gaza’s population has gone several days without eating, calling the situation “unprecedented.”
Airstrikes wiped out entire families. All seven members of one family were killed in Khan Younis. Three members of another died when their tent was hit in Gaza City. In the Zeitoun neighborhood, nine people—eight of them children—were killed as Israeli bombardment leveled several residential buildings before dawn. Witnesses described explosions rocking the city and artillery shelling in the south and east.
Journalists were also targeted. Palestinian reporter Mohammed Al-Khalidi died from wounds sustained in an overnight strike that killed five other journalists, including prominent Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif. Press freedom groups condemned the attack as a deliberate attempt to silence reporting from Gaza.
Israeli forces opened fire on aid-seekers in southern Khan Younis, killing two, and in Rafah, where at least six were shot dead near distribution centers. On Sunday, August 10, 15 others were killed while waiting for aid in Morag and Shakoush. Hospitals in the south reported scenes of grief as relatives gathered to bury their dead.
Israel has kept all Gaza crossings shut since March, with hundreds of trucks stalled at the border. The UN says hundreds of trucks must enter daily to avert famine.
Since October 2023, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,499 Palestinians and wounded more than 153,500.
Israeli rights groups B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel accuse the government of genocide, citing systematic destruction of Palestinian society and healthcare.
The escalation comes days after Israel’s Security Cabinet approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to fully occupy Gaza City, excluding both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority from governance.
The move has drawn sharp rebukes from world leaders and even dissent from Israeli military chiefs.
Israel faces growing legal pressure: the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes, while the International Court of Justice is hearing a genocide case against Israel.
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