Israeli attacks, forced starvation have killed 62,000 Palestinians in Gaza

More than 62,000 Palestinians person been killed by Israel successful its astir two-year genocidal war connected Gaza, with the colonisation suffering relentless bombardment with obscurity harmless successful the besieged enclave, Israeli-induced starvation and the regular sidesplitting of radical desperately seeking nutrient for their families.

Israel is intensifying strikes connected Gaza City, the territory’s largest – and present destroyed – municipality centre, arsenic it plans to prehend it and forcibly displace tens of thousands of radical to attraction zones successful the south. At slightest 26 Palestinians person been killed successful Israeli attacks crossed the Gaza Strip since dawn connected Monday, including 14 seeking aid.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, says, “Israeli attacks are inactive ongoing, unabated, successful the eastbound portion of Gaza City. The standard of attacks illustrates however Israel’s existent strategy is shaping the geography and demography of Gaza.”

“We tin spot however Israel is utilizing dense artillery, combatant jets and drones, successful bid to destruct what’s near of residential homes there. The standard of demolition is highly overwhelming,” helium said.

“This existent subject maneuver ensures that Israel volition alteration its forces to run connected the crushed and volition besides guarantee residential areas crook into zones of rubble. People determination accidental Israeli attacks are happening time and night.”

Many who person already been displaced aggregate times during the warfare by Israeli bombardment are connected the determination again from Gaza City. Others are staying put.

A Palestinian lad travels successful a donkey-drawn cart arsenic the Israeli subject prepares to prehend Gaza City and forcibly displace radical to attraction zones successful the south, August 18, 2025 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]

The metropolis was the main people of aerial attacks connected Sunday that killed astir 60 people, and Israel is besides targeting the fewer remaining healthcare centres there.

But portion galore Palestinians who stay successful the devastated metropolis are forced to past successful the ruins of buildings, makeshift shelters, oregon tents, immoderate radical person told Al Jazeera that it would beryllium intolerable for them to leave.

“How americium I expected to adjacent get there? How tin I go? I request astir $900 to determination – I don’t adjacent person a dollar. How americium I expected to scope the south?” asked displaced Palestinian antheral Bilal Abu Sitta.

Others bash not spot Israeli promises of assistance and shelter. “We don’t privation Israel to springiness america anything,” Noaman Hamad said. “We privation them to [allow] america backmost to the homes we fled – we don’t request much than that.”

Slight anticipation emerged arsenic Hamas said it approved a Gaza ceasefire proposal enactment guardant yesterday by mediators Qatar and Egypt. An informed root told Al Jazeera that the draught woody would guarantee a 60-day truce that would spot the merchandise of fractional of the Israeli captives held successful Gaza arsenic good arsenic an unspecified fig of Palestinian captives imprisoned by Israel.

But Palestinians successful Gaza person seen countless mendacious dawns before, and aft a little ceasefire successful January was shattered by Israel successful March, the warfare past entered its astir grim signifier of quality misery.

‘Israel carrying retired a deliberate run of starvation’

Gaza’s Health Ministry says 5 much Palestinians person died from malnutrition arsenic a effect of Israel’s punishing monthslong blockade successful the past 24 hours, including 2 children.

As of August 18, the known fig of radical who person starved to decease successful Gaza, according to the ministry, reached astatine slightest 263 people, including 112 children.

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) warned that arsenic of July 2025, much than 320,000 children – the full colonisation nether the property of 5 successful Gaza – are astatine hazard of acute malnutrition.

Families are surviving connected the bare minimum of basal foods, with astir nary dietary diversity, WFP said. The bureau called for an contiguous ceasefire to let large-scale transportation of humanitarian aid.

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) says children successful Gaza should beryllium preparing for the caller schoolhouse year, but alternatively are searching for water, queuing for food, and surviving successful classrooms turned into overcrowded shelters.

UNRWA warned that children successful the enclave person already mislaid 3 years of schooling, risking becoming a “lost generation”, and renewed its telephone for an contiguous ceasefire.

Amnesty International has condemned Israel “systematically destroying the health, wellbeing and societal cloth of Palestinian life”. In a study quoting displaced Palestinians and aesculapian unit who person treated malnourished children, Amnesty said: “Israel is carrying retired a deliberate run of starvation successful the occupied Gaza Strip.”

In the meantime, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, says its unit successful Gaza are witnessing a surge successful wide casualties linked to Israel’s ongoing siege and its oversight of constricted organisation of assistance by the controversial, US- and Israel-backed assistance organisation GHF.

“The indiscriminate killings, and the counts of wide casualties we inactive [see] connected a regular ground close now, hasn’t stopped, but lone accrued successful its scale,” said Nour Alsaqqa of MSF.

She said 1 MSF installation successful Rafah, located adjacent an assistance organisation centre, has been overwhelmed with wounded Palestinians, including children.

“We are receiving babe injuries and killings from the organisation sites. People who are coming with gunshots, with antithetic injuries, related to the organisation sites and they spell lone seeking food,” she said.

“They spell retired of desperation and they hazard their lives to entree aid, which is inactive inaccessible owed to Israel’s siege.”

Since the constitution of the GHF assistance sites astatine the extremity of May, astir 2,000 radical person been killed portion trying to entree aid, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.