Israel ‘engineering massacres’ as more Palestinians starve to death in Gaza

Israel is “engineering chaos and massacres” successful the Gaza Strip by continuing to artifact assistance deliveries and opening occurrence connected starving Palestinians seeking desperately needed nutrient supplies, a humanitarian authoritative has warned.

Caroline Willemen, Gaza task coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, told Al Jazeera connected Friday that nutrient remains “critically scarce” successful the besieged enclave contempt the accrued introduction of assistance successful caller days.

“There is small denotation that capable assistance volition get consistently,” Willemen said. “As a result, each day, radical hazard their lives successful a desperate search for food.”

The Gaza Health Ministry said connected Friday that 3 much people, including 2 children, died of hunger and malnutrition successful the erstwhile 24 hours.

That pushed the full fig of starvation-related deaths to 162, including 92 children, since Israel’s warfare connected Gaza began successful October 2023.

More than 80 Palestinians were besides killed successful Israeli strikes crossed the Strip connected Friday, aesculapian sources told Al Jazeera. Of those, 49 radical were killed and much than 270 others were wounded portion seeking aid, the sources said.

Palestinians mourn extracurricular the al-Shifa Hospital morgue successful Gaza City connected July 31, 2025 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

Condemnation of Israel’s starvation argumentation successful Gaza has grown this week, with a global hunger monitoring strategy warning connected Tuesday that the “worst-case script of famine” was unfolding.

While Israel has authorised a bid of assistance airdrops successful caller days, apical United Nations officials person denounced the strategy arsenic costly and unsafe portion urging Israel to let unimpeded humanitarian entree to Gaza.

“If determination is governmental volition to let airdrops – which are highly costly, insufficient & inefficient, determination should beryllium akin governmental volition to unfastened the roadworthy crossings,” Philippe Lazzarini, caput of the UN bureau for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), wrote connected X.

“As the radical of #Gaza are starving to death, the lone mode to respond to the famine is to flood Gaza with assistance.”

Olga Cherevko, an authoritative with the UN’s humanitarian bureau (OCHA), besides told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah successful cardinal Gaza that portion determination has been a flimsy summation successful assistance being allowed in, it is inactive grossly insufficient.

“The flimsy summation successful what is coming successful is not astir capable to adjacent scratch the surface,” she said. “The needs connected the crushed are overwhelming.”

‘Deadly incidents a regular reality’

Meanwhile, Palestinians successful Gaza continue to hazard their lives by seeking assistance astatine notorious sites tally by the United States- and Israeli-backed GHF.

Ibrahim Mekki, a Palestinian antheral from Nuseirat exile campy successful cardinal Gaza, said helium waited astatine slightest six hours and risked being changeable by Israeli forces conscionable to extremity up with a fewer bags of pasta.

“It’s a trap, a game,” helium told Al Jazeera. “Letting you determination a little, past opening fire.”

The UN’s quality rights bureau reported that astatine slightest 1,373 assistance seekers person been killed successful Gaza since May, erstwhile the GHF began operating successful the enclave.

Of those, 859 radical were killed adjacent GHF-run assistance sites and 514 were killed portion waiting on nutrient convoy routes, the bureau said. “Most of these killings were committed by the Israeli military,” it added.

MSF’s Willemen besides recounted a harrowing incidental from earlier this week, erstwhile Israeli forces opened occurrence connected Palestinians attempting to scope assistance trucks adjacent the Zikim crossing successful bluish Gaza.

“People were wounded successful the gunfire and successful the crush arsenic crowds panicked and ran,” she said.

“These deadly incidents person go a regular world successful Gaza for excessively agelong now. The existent methods of organisation are engineering chaos and massacres.”

Still, Israel and its apical ally, the US, person continued to enactment GHF contempt the killings and increasing planetary disapproval of the group’s operations successful Gaza.

US President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, besides visited the enclave connected Friday alongside US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to “assess conditions” and prosecute with GHF.

Witkoff said the travel aimed to assistance “craft a program to present nutrient and aesculapian assistance to the radical of Gaza”.

The Trump medication announced past month that it approved $30m to enactment GHF’s operations.

The US provides billions of dollars successful subject assistance to Israel annually, arsenic good arsenic diplomatic backing astatine the UN – assistance that has accrued importantly since the commencement of the warfare connected Gaza.