More Palestinians were killed while waiting for food aid

At least 325 people were killed in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli forces while trying to reach food during the past week, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. This number includes 24 people who were killed on Saturday in different parts of the region, according to the officials of the health and Morg that has reached NPR.

The deadly search for food occurs despite the Israeli assurances of a humanitarian stand in the attacks to allow more assistance in the deaths caused by malnutrition in Gaza and control the region.

The Israeli army says that its forces fired only warning footage in some of these incidents when he was asked to comment, including Wednesday when more than 90 people were killed for help while trying to obtain bags of trucks when they were rolled in Gaza near a border area where the soldiers are.

The restrictions of aid by Israel have drew international condemnation. Experts who are not backed by hunger say A famine is now unveiled in Gaza.

Israel began to allow drops of air aid by countries and more trucks to Gaza at the end of last week, but relief agencies say they are still far from enough. Almost all food was looted from trucks by armed gangs and hungry crowds before they were able to reach distribution warehouses, according to the United Nations World Food Program.

The crisis prompted President Trump to send two US officials to visit Gaza on Friday with the Israeli forces, where they saw the food distribution site It is managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Corporation (GHF), which has millions of money from the United States and supervised by Israel.

During a ceasefire earlier this year, United Nations agencies were safely handed over help and were largely able to do so even during the first six months of the war until Israel would take full control of the Gaza border with Egypt, where many aid came.

Israel says its restrictions on help are to pressure Hamas and prevent its fighters from benefiting from it. International relief groups and United Nations agencies have described collective punishment restrictions, and say that the aid that is looted by armed gangs, some of which have publicly supported Israel undermining Hamas.

Functions from visiting our envoy

After accompanying the great president’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkeov praised the American Ambassador of Israel Mike Hakapi for the efforts of GHF "Unbelievable achievement."

But a United Nations Report On Thursday, 859 deaths were recorded near GHF sites from May 27 to July 31, with hundreds of food caravan roads.

In a statement, Hamas said that Wittouf’s short visit to Gaza on Friday was "A pre -viewed view designed to deceive public opinion."

Yahia Youssef, who was looking for aid, I told Associated Press Three victims of gunshots in one site of GHF on Saturday helped and saw many other people bleeding from their wounds. "It is the same daily episode," He said.

I told the GHF Information Office, in response to eyewitnesses, AP "Nothing (event) in our positions or near it."

Family reveals

Gaza officials in Gaza reported on Saturday seven deaths about the causes related to malnutrition during the past 24 hours, including the child.

Aidrops help It also continued in Gaza, where many European countries joined this week to an alliance led by Jordan, which coordinated this air delivery.

in Posted on X On Saturday, Philip Lazarini, head of the United Nations Refugee Agency, indicated that one truck can provide much more help than Airdrop, many of which land in military areas or at sea. Call them "Very expensive, inaccurate and ineffective," Adding that if there is "The political will to allow air drops … there must be a political will similar to opening road crossings."

Israeli local pressure

The Israeli army did not immediately comment on Saturday’s strikes or shooting near Gaza aid sites. However Warning in a statement issued on Friday Which – which "The fighting will continue without rest" As Hamas pressures if the hostages are not launched in the group on October 7, 2023, no attack was launched on Israel.

In Tel Aviv, the families of the hostages that are still being held inside Gaza protested, and urged the Israeli government to intensify efforts to a ceasefire to release their loved ones.

Some family members met with Witkoff, Trump’s envoy in the East, during a visit to Tel Aviv. They said he told them that Trump intends to search for a comprehensive hostage deal that Hamas agreed to disarm and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is committed to ending the war in Gaza. Hamas and Netanyahu publicly rejected these conditions in the previous rounds of negotiations.

An American group will finance the rebuilding of the Gaza Church

Meanwhile, a Jewish American organization began providing financial assistance to Christians in Gaza. The American Jewish Committee donates $ 25,000 to restore the Holy Catholic Church, one of two churches in the pocket, with funds run by the New York Catholic diocese.

The building was recently Dangerous damage One of the deadly Israeli strikes that struck the church, as the Christian Palestinians resorted to war.

This donation comes more Jewish leaders In the United States – as well as dozens of Democratic Senate members – called for a ceasefire in Gaza.

People of Baba in Gaza City and Jason in Washington contributed to the reports.

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