Heartbreaking testimonies gathered from medical staff, parents of children hospitalised for malnutrition, and displaced Palestinians struggling to survive paint a horrifying picture of acute levels of starvation and desperation in Gaza.
Their accounts provide further evidence of the catastrophic suffering caused by Israel’s ongoing restrictions on life-saving aid and its deadly militarised aid scheme, coupled with mass forced displacement, relentless bombardment, and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.
“While the eyes of the world were diverted to the recent hostilities between Israel and Iran, Israel’s genocide has continued unabated in Gaza, including through the infliction of conditions of life that have created a deadly mix of hunger and disease pushing the population past breaking point,” said Agnès Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International.
“In the month following Israel’s imposition of a militarised ‘aid’ scheme run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured either near militarised distribution sites or en route to humanitarian aid convoys.
“This devastating daily loss of life, as desperate Palestinians try to collect aid, is the consequence of their deliberate targeting by Israeli forces and the foreseeable consequence of irresponsible and lethal methods of distribution.”
By continuing to prevent UN and other key humanitarian organisations from distributing certain essential items, like food parcels, fuel, and shelter within Gaza, and by maintaining a deadly, dehumanising, and ineffective militarised “aid” scheme, Israeli authorities have turned aid-seeking into a booby trap for desperate, starved Palestinians...