Israel forces shoot Palestinian boy in eye at aid site amid Gaza starvation

Fifteen-year-old Abdul Rahman Abu Jazar says Israeli soldiers kept shooting astatine him adjacent aft helium was struck by a bullet.

A Palestinian teenager, changeable successful the oculus by Israeli forces portion desperately seeking nutrient for his household adjacent a United States and Israeli-backed GHF tract successful Gaza, is improbable to regain show successful his near eye, doctors treating him person said, arsenic the colonisation of the besieged and bombarded enclave suffers from forced starvation.

Fifteen-year-old Abdul Rahman Abu Jazar told Al Jazeera connected Sunday that Israeli soldiers kept shooting astatine him adjacent aft helium was struck by a bullet, making him deliberation “this was the end” and “death was near”.

Relaying the harrowing concatenation of events from a infirmary furniture with a achromatic bandage covering 1 eye, Abu Jazar said helium went to the tract astir 2am (23:00 GMT).

“It was my archetypal clip going to the organisation point,” helium said. “I went determination due to the fact that my siblings and I had nary food. We couldn’t find thing to eat.”

He says helium moved guardant with the assemblage until helium reached al-Muntazah Park successful the Gaza City environs astir 5 hours later.

“We were moving erstwhile they began shooting astatine us. I was with 3 others; 3 of them were hit. As soon arsenic we started running, they opened fire. Then I felt thing similar energy sprout done my body. I collapsed to the ground. I felt arsenic though I had been electrocuted … I didn’t cognize wherever I was, I conscionable blacked out. When I woke up, I asked radical ‘Where americium I?'”

Others adjacent Abu Jazar told him helium had been changeable successful the head. “They were inactive firing. I got frightened and started reciting prayers.”

A doc astatine the infirmary held a telephone airy adjacent the boy’s wounded oculus and asked him if helium could spot immoderate light. He could not. The doc diagnosed a perforating oculus wounded caused by a gunshot wound.

Abu Jazar underwent country and said, “I anticipation my eyesight volition return, God willing.”

Hospitals person bodies of much assistance seekers

Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that 119 bodies, including 15 recovered from nether the rubble of destroyed buildings oregon different places, and 866 wounded Palestinians person arrived astatine the enclave’s hospitals implicit the past 24 hours.

At slightest 65 Palestinians were killed portion seeking aid, and 511 much were wounded.

Israeli forces have routinely fired connected Palestinians trying to get nutrient astatine GHF-run organisation sites successful Gaza, and the United Nations reported this week that much than 1,300 assistance seekers person been killed since the radical began operating successful May.

Palestinians transportation bags arsenic they instrumentality from a nutrient organisation constituent tally by the US and Israeli-backed GHF group, successful the cardinal Gaza Strip connected August 3, 2025 [Eyad Baba/AFP]

In the meantime, the UN bureau successful Geneva has warned that 1 cardinal women and girls successful Gaza are present starving, arsenic the territory’s humanitarian situation grows much dire.

In a station connected X, the UN said: “This horrific concern is unacceptable and indispensable end.”

Gaza’s famine and malnutrition situation has been worsening by the day, with astatine slightest 175 people, including 93 children, present confirmed dormant from the man-made starvation of Israel’s punishing blockade, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.

More than 6,000 Palestinian children are being treated for malnutrition resulting from the blockade, according to the Global Nutrition Cluster, which includes the UN wellness and nutrient agencies.