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Days of Palestine
a day ago
- Health
- Days of Palestine
Health Ministry: 20 People Starved to Death over the Past 48 Hours
DaysofPal—The Ministry of Health in Gaza has warned of a rapidly escalating humanitarian disaster, reporting alarming figures of deaths caused by both Israeli bombardment and famine. Officials confirm that the health system is on the brink of total collapse. Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, stated that the enclave is experiencing the most dangerous stage of famine to date, noting that 'many people are collapsing in the streets due to extreme hunger and severe weakness.' He added that 20 people have died from starvation in just the past 48 hours. Al-Bursh explained that Gaza's hospitals have been receiving an average of 100 martyrs daily for over three months, all killed by direct Israeli strikes. He further revealed that Israeli forces are killing an average of 28 children every day, highlighting a continued and deliberate targeting of civilians. The health official also warned of a major medical catastrophe unfolding in the strip, with the emergence of new diseases linked to malnutrition and contaminated water. Among the most concerning developments is the rising number of children diagnosed with the rare autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barré Syndrome. At the same time, Gaza's medical facilities remain unable to provide treatment due to severe shortages in medication and medical supplies. Meanwhile, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) expressed deep concern over the worsening hunger crisis in Gaza, stating that people are now 'dying from hunger' and that child malnutrition has reached catastrophic levels. The agency also warned that both food and access to clean water are critically below emergency thresholds. The Ministry of Health has called on the international community and humanitarian organizations to take immediate action to stop the massacres and lift the siege, warning that continued global silence is only worsening the tragedy and increasing the death toll by the day. Shortlink for this post:
Jordan News
a day ago
- Health
- Jordan News
20 Deaths from Starvation in Gaza Within 48 Hours - Jordan News
The Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, confirmed that the number of deaths due to starvation in the Gaza Strip has risen to 20 within the past 48 hours. اضافة اعلان In an interview with Al Jazeera, Al-Bursh stated, 'We are witnessing a significant increase in the number of people dying or falling ill due to malnutrition,' warning that 'the famine phase currently sweeping the Gaza Strip is the most dangerous, with many collapsing in the streets.' He added, 'We are facing a major health catastrophe, and new diseases have begun to spread throughout the Strip,' noting that 'dozens of children are suffering from Guillain-Barré syndrome, and we are unable to treat them.' Al-Bursh further stated, 'For the past three months, we have been receiving around 100 martyrs daily as a result of direct bombardment,' and that 'the occupation is killing an average of 28 children per day in the Strip.'
Days of Palestine
01-07-2025
- Health
- Days of Palestine
UNRWA: Displaced Gazans Are Being Killed While Searching for Food
DaysofPal- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) issued a stark warning on Tuesday about the continued killing of civilians in Gaza as they struggle to find food amid a worsening humanitarian catastrophe. In a press statement, UNRWA stressed that only the United Nations and its agencies are capable of safely delivering humanitarian aid to those in need in the besieged Gaza Strip. The agency strongly criticized the new US-Israeli aid coordination mechanism, describing it as a 'field of death', where vulnerable civilians are being targeted and killed while waiting in line for food assistance. Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that at least 500 civilians have been killed attempting to access food. He stated that Israeli forces use artillery and live ammunition to disperse crowds at distribution sites, and those who survive the initial attacks are often shot by snipers. Al-Bursh reported that the majority of the injured who reached the hospitals involved head and chest wounds, indicating deliberate targeting that he said constitutes genocidal acts. He added that Gaza's humanitarian conditions have reached an unprecedented level of catastrophe since the war began. This targeting occurs against the backdrop of a deepening food crisis, as international humanitarian organizations warn that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians face imminent famine, particularly in northern Gaza. According to UN reports, Israeli occupation forces are blocking aid convoys and disrupting aid distribution. Last Thursday, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the Israeli occupation is actively working to sabotage the delivery of humanitarian aid and undermine local relief initiatives. The organization reported that shortly after a local initiative successfully delivered aid to warehouses in Gaza City, Israeli authorities blocked further aid shipments to northern Gaza. It also dismissed repeated Israeli claims that armed Palestinian groups are stealing aid, calling them false pretexts aimed at justifying the denial of essential supplies like food, medicine, and fuel. The international NGO ANERA, which operates in Gaza, confirmed that its aid deliveries arrived safely at its warehouses, according to Euro-Med. The watchdog noted that the Israeli occupation has provided no credible evidence to support its accusations and is instead using starvation as a weapon of war. More than half of Gaza's population is currently facing catastrophic hunger, with over 5,000 children hospitalized in May alone due to acute malnutrition. Euro-Med called on the international community to reject Israel's unfounded claims and to exert pressure on Tel Aviv to immediately allow unrestricted aid access to Gaza. Backed by unwavering US support, the Israeli occupation has waged a genocidal war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, involving mass killings, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, in defiance of international appeals and legally binding orders from the International Court of Justice. The onslaught has so far resulted in more than 190,000 Palestinians killed or wounded, the majority being women and children, in addition to over 11,000 missing persons and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands, with famine already claiming numerous lives, including children. Shortlink for this post:
Daily News Egypt
30-06-2025
- Health
- Daily News Egypt
Bloody escalation in Gaza amid warnings of humanitarian, health catastrophe
Israeli airstrikes continued to devastate the Gaza Strip on the 105th day of renewed hostilities, leaving dozens of Palestinians dead or wounded amid escalating humanitarian concerns and growing international condemnation over what has been widely described as a campaign of collective punishment. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported 28 fatalities and 223 injuries in the past 24 hours, raising the overall toll since 7 October 2023 to 56,531 killed and 133,642 injured. It noted that 6,203 people have been killed since 18 March alone, as Israeli military operations intensified. Airstrikes targeted multiple neighbourhoods in eastern Gaza City, including Al-Zaytoun, Al-Sabra, and Al-Daraj, as well as parts of Khan Younis in the south. Emergency services reported that a strike on Gaza City's port area killed 10 civilians and wounded 30 others. Meanwhile, the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for destroying an Israeli Merkava tank in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, during a joint operation with Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades. The Israeli military issued fresh evacuation warnings to residents in 18 northern Gaza neighbourhoods, including parts of Gaza City, Jabalia, and districts such as Al-Zaytoun, the Old City, Al-Tuffah, Al-Daraj, Al-Zahra, and Tel Al-Zaatar, ahead of expected bombardments. On the humanitarian front, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) warned that hundreds of newborns in incubators at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis face imminent death due to a severe shortage of infant formula. Simultaneously, Gaza's Health Ministry reported an acute lack of antibiotics critical for treating meningitis, describing the health situation as catastrophic. Munir Al-Bursh, Director-General of the ministry, said the health system is near collapse, with only 16 hospitals partially operational and over 80,000 patients at serious risk due to severe medicine shortages. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reported that more than 810 people have been killed while sheltering inside its facilities since the war began. Gaza's Government Media Office documented Israeli strikes on 256 displacement shelters, housing over 700,000 displaced civilians. The office condemned a recent strike on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as a 'barbaric assault,' renewing calls for urgent international intervention to protect medical facilities and personnel. Germany expressed 'deep concern' over what it called 'recurring incidents' during aid distribution, referencing reports of so-called 'death traps' allegedly orchestrated by Israeli forces targeting civilians seeking food. Berlin urged unhindered access for UN agencies and humanitarian workers. Meanwhile, Austria's Foreign Minister Babetta Meinl-Reisinger, during a visit to Jerusalem, sparked controversy by declaring the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation 'not a reliable partner' for aid delivery, without providing further details. The UN Human Rights Office accused Israel of killing entire displaced families in areas previously designated as 'safe.' It cited a strike on tents sheltering displaced civilians in Khan Younis over the weekend that resulted in multiple deaths. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces declared Al-Rakeez village in the Masafer Yatta area of Hebron a closed military zone. Separately, groups of Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem under heavy police protection. Inside Israel, divisions over the war's continuation are widening. According to Haaretz, senior military officials believe the objectives in Gaza have been exhausted. Opposition leader Yair Lapid criticised the government's insistence on prolonging the offensive and called for a new strategic direction. Regionally, Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari confirmed that Doha is currently involved in efforts related to Iran's nuclear file following the recent Israeli-Iranian confrontation. However, he clarified that there are no active negotiations regarding Gaza, despite what he described as 'serious American intentions' to revive talks.
Kuwait Times
17-06-2025
- Health
- Kuwait Times
Zionist massacres continue unabated in famished Gaza
GAZA: Palestinians rush for cover as debris flies around them after a Zionist strike on the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on June 15, 2025. - AFP GAZA: Zionist gunfire and airstrikes killed at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, local health authorities said, five of them near two aid sites operated by the US- and Zionist-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Medics at Al-Awda Hospital in the central Gaza Strip said at least three people were killed and dozens wounded by Zionist fire as they tried to approach a GHF site near the Netzarim corridor. Two others were killed en route to another aid site in Rafah in the south. An airstrike killed seven other people in Beit Lahiya town north of the enclave, medics said. In Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip, medics said a Zionist airstrike killed at least 11 people in a house. The rest were killed in separate airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip, they added. The GHF began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May after the Zionist entity partially lifted a near three-month total blockade. Scores of Palestinians have been killed in near-daily mass shootings trying to reach the food. The GHF said in a statement that it resumed food deliveries on Sunday, distributing more than two million meals from its three distribution sites without incident. The United Nations rejects the new Zionist-backed distribution system as inadequate, dangerous and a violation of humanitarian impartiality principles. The Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Saturday that at least 300 people have so far been killed, and more than 2,600 wounded, near aid distribution sites since the GHF began operations in Gaza. 'These are not humanitarian aid, these are traps for the poor and the hungry under the watch of occupation planes,' said Munir Al-Bursh, Director-General of the health ministry. 'Aid distributed under fire isn't aid, it is humiliation,' Bursh posted on X on Sunday. The Zionist campaign has killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and flattened much of the densely populated strip, which is home to more than two million people. Most of the population is displaced, and malnutrition is widespread. – Reuters
