At least 64 Palestinians killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours as Israel shifts focus to Gaza City

Published connected 24/08/2025 - 14:12 GMT+2 •Updated 14:48

At slightest 64 Palestinians were killed successful Israeli attacks crossed nan Gaza Strip successful nan past 24-hours. Medical sources astatine hospitals successful nan enclave opportunity astatine slightest 16 group were killed connected Sunday, including 7 assistance seekers.

They were walking done a subject area successful nan southbound of nan Strip, trying to scope a nutrient distribution constituent adjacent Khan Younis, ran by nan Israeli-backed US contractor Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Eyewitnesses and infirmary officials opportunity Israeli soldiers opened occurrence astatine crowds of Palestinians marching their measurement to nan distribution hub. It’s nan latest successful a drawstring of fatal incidents surrounding nan GHF operation, which commenced successful precocious May.

“The gunfire was indiscriminate,” Mohamed Abed, a begetter of 2 from nan Bureij exile camp, said, adding that while galore fled immoderate group fell to nan crushed aft being shot.

Abed and Ahmed Sayyad, different assistance seeker among nan crowd, said troops opened occurrence erstwhile a group adjacent nan beforehand of nan crowd pushed guardant toward a distribution tract earlier its scheduled opening.

The shooting occurred conscionable hundreds of metres distant from nan GHF hub. The Delaware-based instauration has not commented connected nan incident but person antecedently denied immoderate fatal incidents connected their premises.

The Israeli Defence Forces do not person nonstop information engagement successful nan GHF operation, but are tasked pinch providing a information perimeter a fewer kilometres distant from their sites. The IDF has not publically acknowledged nan latest incident but person many times stated successful nan past that their troops only occurrence informing shots if Palestinian assistance seekers get excessively adjacent to their posts.

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says that much than 2,000 Palestinians person been killed and adjacent to 15,000 others were injured while seeking assistance astatine nan GHF sites aliases enroute to their hubs.

Many person criticised nan initiative, a US-Israeli collaboration aimed astatine replacing accepted UN assistance systems, aft Israel accused nan UN of having Hamas combatants embedded wrong its staff, and slammed nan group for looting supplies for their ain depletion and to sell.

Israel has not produced immoderate grounds of those allegations, which nan UN person rejected, claiming its assistance deliveries are heavy secured and routinely get astatine distribution warehouses safely.  

It comes arsenic an already dire humanitarian catastrophe further deteriorates arsenic Israel continues to forestall nan entree of nutrient and basal necessities into nan enclave.

The UN opportunity 90% of Gaza’s astir 2 cardinal organization are astatine dire consequence of starvation owed to nan critically debased levels of nutrient successful nan besieged territory.

On Sunday, astatine slightest 8 group died from malnutrition-related causes, including 1 child. The Gaza Health Ministry says nan full magnitude of famine related deaths person risen to 289, including 115 children.

Meanwhile, Israeli attacks crossed nan portion are intensifying up of an imminent violative aimed astatine occupying Gaza City successful nan northbound of nan enclave, aft Israel’s information furniture approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheme to return power of nan city.

Air strikes person been targeting aggregate locations, from nan southernmost Rafah to nan north. Eyewitnesses opportunity Israeli missiles are targeting civilian areas, including designated safe havens. On Saturday, respective group were killed successful Israeli shelling of a displacement campy successful Khan Younis.

The warfare started aft Hamas staged an onslaught connected confederate Israel connected 7 October, 2023, sidesplitting conscionable nether 1,200 people, whom Israel says were chiefly civilians. The Gaza-based group besides captured 250 group arsenic hostages connected their retreat to nan Strip.

Most of nan hostages person since been released successful respective ceasefire and speech deals betwixt Israel and Hamas. 50 still stay nether Hamas captivity, pinch astir 20 believed to beryllium alive.

The decease toll from Israel’s 22 period violative connected Gaza is now closing successful connected 63,0000 according to nan Health Ministry.

Its figures do not separate betwixt civilian and combatant casualties, but nan UN says much than two-thirds of deaths it has been capable to independently verify were women and children.