10 die of starvation, Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ – War on Gaza Day 656
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Bodies of Palestinians are brought to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after an Israeli air raid (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu)
Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 90 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, including at least 25 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed over 1,083 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
At least 10 Palestinians have died of forced starvation in the past 24 hours in Gaza, bringing the death toll from hunger to 111, including at least 80 children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. The World Health Organization (WHO) said that 21 children under the age of five were among those who died of malnutrition so far this year.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Wednesday, go here.
Israeli forces also killed 3 Palestinian teens in the West Bank (see below).
GAZA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For a bit more critical context, skim this, this, and this.To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.)
Former Gaza Aid Security Contractor in Interview: “This Has to Stop”
Report by Israel’s Channel 12 (parts are in Hebrew):
ISRAEL KILLS 2 MORE PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS IN GAZA: Gaza’s government media office said Wednesday that Tamer Al-Za’anin and Wala’a Ja’bari lost their lives to Israeli army fire. Al-Za’anin, a photojournalist, had reportedly been killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, during a raid to detain Dr. Marwan Al-Hams, director of Gaza field hospitals; Ja’bari was killed, along with her husband, four children, and her unborn baby, in a strike in eastern Gaza City on Wednesday. Their deaths bring the total number of journalists killed to 231.
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Doctors and medical staff in Gaza say their increasing hunger and the lack of available food is beginning to leave them too weak to provide urgent medical care to patients inside hospitals full of malnourished and injured civilians.
Doctors are “in a state of extreme exhaustion. Some have fainted in the operating rooms,” said Dr Mohammed Abu Selmia, the director of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, who said that like the people of Gaza, staff had not received any aid or had any meals in the past 48 hours.
“Medical services will be affected because our staff will not be able to hold out any longer in the face of this famine,” he added (continue reading here).
The bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on the Zikim area in the northern Gaza Strip are seen lying on the ground at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza, on July 20, 2025. (Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty Images)
100+ NGOs warn Israel’s forced ‘mass starvation’ stalks all Gaza
109 aid and human rights groups have called on governments to take urgent action as Israel’s forced “mass starvation” of Palestinians engulfs Gaza, including by demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the lifting of all restrictions on humanitarian aid.
The groups, which included Doctors Without Borders, declared that starvation is spreading across the besieged enclave.
“The humanitarian system cannot run on false promises … The Government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death,” the statement added.
Tons of food, clean water, medical supplies and other items sit untouched just outside Gaza as humanitarian organizations are blocked from accessing or delivering them by Israel (continue reading here).
As Palestinian girls and women struggle to find the most basic items—soap, sanitary pads, diapers, thousands of hygiene kits are packed and ready in UNRWA warehouses in Jordan and Egypt, just waiting for the green light. (social media)
UN agency warns of ‘catastrophic birth outcomes’ in Gaza amid starvation, health system collapse
The UN sexual and reproductive health agencyUNFPA on Wednesday raised urgent alarm over what it called a “profound humanitarian crisis” in Gaza, where pregnant women and newborns face life-threatening risks due to starvation, psychological trauma, and a collapsing health system.
According to data, there has been a 41% decline in birth rate in the first half 2025, vs. the same period in 2022. Maternal deaths have surged to more than 20 times the total reported in 2022. At least 20 newborns died within 24 hours of birth, according to the statement, and 33% of babies, 5,560, were born prematurely, underweight, or required intensive care.
“The scale of suffering for new mothers and their babies in Gaza is beyond comprehension,” said Laila Baker, UNFPA regional director for the Arab states. “Every mother and child deserves the right to a safe birth and a healthy start to life. What we are witnessing is a systematic denial of these fundamental rights, pushing an entire generation to the brink.”
A baby, hospitalised due to malnutrition and dehydration, lies in an incubator at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, Gaza (Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu Agency)
NOTABLE QUOTES:
From Nour Abuzaid, senior researcher at Forensic Architecture, an agency that investigates human rights violations:
Starvation breaks social order, and transforms governance into just one issue, who can feed people?
If you can feed people, you can rule them. Because life has been reduced to a single question: What are we going to eat today?
From Anas al-Sharif, Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza City:
I haven’t stopped covering for a moment in 21 months, and today, I say it outright…and with indescribable pain.
I am drowning in hunger, trembling in exhaustion, and resisting the fainting that follows me every moment.
Gaza is dying. And we die with it.
From former United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths, on the situation in Gaza:
I am absolutely convinced that what’s going on in Gaza is a genocide, because the thing speaks for itself.
My grandchildren will be learning in school about who did what in the worst crime of the 21st century.
This is a dereliction of humanitarian duty and responsibility, never mind principles.
RELATED: Israeli Military Threatens Journalist After He Reports on Starvation in Gaza
Satellite view of Khan Younis, October 2024 (L) and July 2025. The city previously was home to around 400,000 people. (Planet Labs PBC)
Hamas responds to Gaza truce proposal with amendments to aid, Israeli pullout
The Palestinian group Hamas submitted on Wednesday its response to an Israeli proposal for a 60-day truce in Gaza, which reportedly includes proposed amendments to maps of areas from which the Israeli military should withdraw and guarantees on securing a permanent end to the war.
It also proposes amendments regarding the entry of aid – Hamas has reportedly asked that only UN agencies handle aid entry and distribution while the US and Israel backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is excluded, and requiring the immediate reopening of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in both directions once the ceasefire takes effect (continue reading here).
MORE FROM/ABOUT GAZA:
Jordan says 36-truck aid convoy allowed into Gaza, bound for World Central Kitchen
World Food Programme Statement on Israeli Attack on Aid Seekers
(Also get familiar with the charges against Israel: genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced transfer, starvation as a weapon of war, use of human shields, concentration camps, indiscriminate shooting at civilians, and more.)
Aftermath of an Israeli attack on a home in Gaza City. It was reported that eight civilians were killed, and many others injured in the attack (Khames Alrefi/Anadolu)
WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM, AND ISRAEL NEWS AND HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this. For information on the significance of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, read this and this.)
Israeli forces kill three Palestinian teens in West Bank
Israeli forces have shot and killed a teenager in the town of Arrabeh, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli forces were stationed at the western entrance to the town and fired directly at Ibrahim Imad Ahmed Mahmoud Hamran, 14, killing him instantly. Hamran becomes the second teenager killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in the last 24 hours, as Ibrahim Nasr was killed after being shot in the chest by Israeli forces in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, last night.
Israeli forces shot two more Palestinian youths on Wednesday night, after invading the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. Israeli forces prevented their ambulance crews from approaching the site, and reportedly confiscated their bodies.
In a statement, the army announced that its soldiers killed two Palestinians and wounded 2 others claiming to have “spotted a number of young men throwing Molotov cocktails on a central road in the area.”
It added that Israeli forces “opened fire on them, killing two of them, and there were no casualties among our forces.”
(left to right) Ibrahim Majid Ali Nasr, 16, and Ibrahim Imad Ahmad Mahmoud Hamran, 14, Ahmad Ali Asaad Salah, 15, and Mohammad Khaled ‘Elian Issa, 15, killed this week in the West Bank (IMEMC)
MORE FROM WEST BANK, JERUSALEM, AND ISRAEL:
How one Israeli company controls – and cuts off – Palestinians’ access to water in the West Bank
OTHER NEWS AND HEADLINES:
‘Bowing Down to Authoritarianism,’ Columbia Agrees to Pay $200 Million in Deal With Trump
Columbia University has agreed to pay a $200 million fine and make other significant concessions to the Trump administration in a deal to restore federal grants canceled earlier this year as part of the president’s assault on institutions of higher education.
Under the terms of the settlement, which was released Wednesday, Columbia agreed to “conduct a thorough review” of its educational programs “in regional areas across the university, starting with the Middle East”—bowing to the Trump administration’s interference in curriculum-related decisions.
Columbia also pledged to “undertake a comprehensive review of its international admissions processes” and “ensure that international student-applicants are asked questions to elicit their reasons for wishing to study in the United States” as the Trump administration—under the guise of combating antisemitism—targets international students who have taken part in Palestinian rights demonstrations.
Earlier this week, Columbia suspended or expelleddozens of students over Gaza-related protests (continue reading here).
Pro-Palestinian student protesters resume demonstrations on Friday at Columbia University on the third day of ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ after mass arrests by New York Police Department in New York, United States on April 19, 2024 ([Selçuk Acar – Anadolu Agency] )
BRAZIL JOINING GENOCIDE CASE AGAINST ISRAEL AT ICJ: Brazil says it’s in the final stages of formally joining South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The decision “is based on the duty of States to comply with their obligations under international law and international humanitarian law, given the plausibility that the rights of Palestinians to protection against acts of genocide are being irreversibly impaired”, the Brazilian foreign ministry said.
NYT: Iranian Officials Suspect Israeli Sabotage in String of Mysterious Fires
For more than two weeks, mysterious explosions and fires have erupted across Iran, setting ablaze apartment complexes and oil refineries, a road outside a major airport and even a shoe factory.
In private, three Iranian officials, including a member of the country’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said they believed that many of them were acts of sabotage.
While Iran’s government has many enemies that would like to see it falter, the officials have trained their suspicions on Israel, pointing to its history of covert operations in Iran, including explosions and assassinations. And after Israel’s 12-day bombing campaign last month in Iran, a senior Israeli intelligence official had vowed to continue operating in Iran (continue reading here).
MORE HEADLINES:
Handala Activists ‘Upbeat’ as Aid Boat Continues Journey to Break Gaza Siege
Yes, The New York Times is committing genocidal journalism
Why is Columbia University expelling pro-Palestine students?
Iranian navy forces US destroyer to retreat from Sea of Oman
Italy’s far-right deputy prime minister under fire after accepting ‘Best friend of Israel’ award
Palestinians desperate for food wait to receive a rare hot meal, distributed by a charity organization in Gaza City (Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu)
STATISTICS OCTOBER 7, 2023 – JULY 23, 2025:
At least 60,603 Palestinians killed, 152,728 injured – including:
at least 143,498 injured in Gaza
at least 9,230 injured in the West Bank
According to Palestinian authorities, during the ceasefire Jan. 19 – March 18 2025, Israeli attacks killed at least 170 Gazans, and Israel committed at least 962 ceasefire violations.
Since the Israeli army resumed its assaults on Gaza on March 18, it has killed at least 8,447 people. 47 Israeli soldiers (most recent July 21) have been killed during the same time period.
At least 1,083 Palestinians have been killed while trying to access aid parcels from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which started operating on May 26, 2025.
Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 14,000 more are still buried under rubble.
Reported Israeli death toll from October 7, 2023 – July 23, 2025: ~1,629 – including ~1,139 on October 7, 2023 (~36 children), 451 military forces since the ground invasion began in Gaza, 46 military and civilians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. (72 soldiers have reportedly died due to “operational incidents.”)
By one count, Israeli attacks have killed approximately 228 Palestinian journalists and media workers; Palestinians have killed 4 Israeli journalists (other groups have tallied between 186 and 295 Palestinian journalists killed – depending on the criteria used).
NOTE: It is unknown at this time how many of the deaths and injuries of Israelis on October 7 were caused by Israeli soldiers.
Hover over each bar for exact numbers. Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org
Human rights reports on Israel-Palestine (regularly updated)
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