Gaza: At least 43 people have been martyred in Israeli strikes on Gaza today alone, with one strike on Bureij killing nine members of the same family.
Humanitarian coordinator Amjad Shawa in Gaza warned that more children likely to die from malnutrition as “the whole Strip is starving” due to Israel’s siege.
On the other hands, the governments of Ireland, Austria, among others, have condemned Israel’s over 60-day blockade of Gaza, as Amnestly International terms the blockage of food and medicine a “war crime”.
A Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship carrying 30 pro-Palestinian activists bombed, with the group blaming Israel or one of its allies. There were no casualties.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 52,418 Palestinians and wounded 118,091, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
The Gaza Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
