UN says families, a generation being ‘wiped out’ by Israel’s war on Gaza

Five much Palestinians, including a child, person died of malnutrition arsenic a effect of Israel’s punishing blockade of Gaza successful the past 24 hr reporting period, the Health Ministry has said, arsenic radical successful the enclave and galore beyond its besieged borders mourned respective journalists assassinated by Israel.

The ministry connected Monday said astir of these victims died successful the past 3 weeks, arsenic Israel-imposed starvation engulfs the full population, with the full fig of terrible hunger deaths present astatine 222, including 101 children.

The UN bureau for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said “children successful Gaza are dying from starvation and bombardments”.

“Entire families, neighbourhoods, and a procreation are being wiped out,” the UN bureau wrote successful a station connected societal media. “Inaction and soundlessness are complicity. It’s clip for statements to crook into enactment and for an contiguous ceasefire.”

At slightest 46 Palestinians were killed successful Israeli raids crossed Gaza since dawn connected Monday, including six assistance seekers, aesculapian sources person told Al Jazeera.

In 1 of the latest attacks, the al-Aqsa Hospital reported the sidesplitting of 4 Palestinians by Israeli forces successful the southbound and eastbound of Deir el-Balah, cardinal Gaza.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said 3 civilians were killed and others were injured successful an Israeli onslaught connected the Zeitoun neighbourhood of confederate Gaza City.

Meanwhile, connected a regular basis, Israeli forces and US contractors are continuing to termination Palestinians desperately seeking assistance astatine organisation points tally by the arguable United States and Israeli-backed GHF.

Among those killed connected Sunday was Ismail Qandil’s son. Speaking astatine the al-Shifa Hospital successful Gaza City, Qandil told Al Jazeera that his lad was unarmed and was looking for nutrient erstwhile helium was killed.

“He had nary bullets, nary limb to sprout with. What did we do? What did we bash for this to hap to us? Enough with the hunger and genocide,” helium said.

“We are successful a famine. We are being slaughtered. We can’t transportation on. We nonstop our sons to bring food, and they termination them. We are not members of the resistance, and we are not members of movements oregon anything. We are being destroyed.”

Israeli strikes termination Palestinian journalists

Israel’s warfare connected Gaza has killed astatine slightest 61,499 radical and wounded 153,575 since October 7, 2023. The toll includes astatine slightest 270 journalists and media workers.

An outpouring of grief and condemnation followed the Israeli assassination of 5 Al Jazeera Arabic unit successful Gaza, including salient analogous Anas al-Sharif, successful a drone attack late connected Sunday that deed a structure for journalists positioned extracurricular the main gross of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.

The onslaught came days aft the UN Special Rapporteur connected state of expression, Irene Khan, warned of “unfounded accusations by the Israeli army” against al-Sharif aft Israel repeatedly and falsely accused the 28-year-old newsman of being a Hamas affiliate.

Speaking connected Monday, Khan said that Israel killed al-Sharif implicit his enactment arsenic a writer and that Israeli claims helium was a Hamas subordinate are wholly unsubstantiated.

“If they had existent grounds [of this], bash you not deliberation that they would enactment it out, up front, close distant successful the planetary arena? Of people they would. But wherefore are they not doing that? Because they don’t person that evidence,” she told Al Jazeera.

“They simply [say] that immoderate writer who is reporting connected Gaza indispensable beryllium a ‘Hamas member’, conscionable arsenic anyone who criticises Israel has to beryllium ‘anti-Semitic’.

Meron Rapoport, a seasoned Israeli writer and exertion of the Local Call quality site, said the Israeli military’s accusation did not “make consciousness astatine all”. “The Israeli explanations are, astatine best, precise lacking,” Rapoport told Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv.

He said Israel apt targeted al-Sharif present due to the fact that of 2 main factors: first, his important relation successful “telling the satellite that determination is famine successful Gaza”, which “really wounded Israel internationally”; and, second, due to the fact that of the planned upcoming seizure of Gaza City, which Israel wants to minimise sum of.

“The little eyes and the little cameras and the little voices that volition papers this, what could beryllium truly a slaughter … is amended for Israel,” Rapoport said.

Al Jazeera analogous Tareq Abu Azzoum, who reports for the network’s English channel, said the journalists were “working astir the timepiece to unearth facts connected the crushed and support the satellite informed astir what has been going connected successful Gaza”.

“Now, we tin spot that the Israeli subject is stepping up its attacks connected journalists,” helium said.

Speaking of his colleagues al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, Abu Azzoum said their deliberate killings were being seen successful Gaza “as an effort to soundlessness 2 of the astir courageous voices”.

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