Dozens of Palestinians starved to death under the Israeli siege in Gaza Israeli conflict news

While trucks that carry vital supplies accumulate on the border with Egypt, hungry children look across the garbage of food.

At least 57 Palestinians have starved to death in Gaza, where the blockade of Israel in food, water and other cash aid extends to the besieged pocket in its third month amid uncompromising bombing.

The government media office in Gaza said on Saturday that most of the victims were children, as well as patients and the elderly, condemning “the continuous use of food by the Israeli occupation as a weapon of war” and urges the international community to put pressure on Israel to reopen the borders and allow help.

Gaza was under the total The Israeli blockade Since March 2, the video, which the Arabian Peninsula, has appeared large numbers of trucks that carry vital supplies that accumulate on the border between Egypt and Gaza tape on Saturday, the waiting list extends south to beyond the city of Arish, which is located about 45 km (28 miles) from Rafah’s crossing.

Al -Jazira team set one of the most recent victims on Saturday, a child named Yanan Saleh Al -Sakafi, who died due to malnutrition and drought at Rantisi Hospital, west of Gaza City. more than 9000 children The hospital has been accepted to treat acute malnutrition since the beginning of the year, according to the United Nations.

Hani Mahmoud, from an island of Gaza City, said that he witnessed tragic scenes from children wandering in the garbage, “searching for all the remaining canned food products.” He added that the pocket has reached a “critical” point where international organizations graduate from supplies and community kitchens that are unable to prepare meals for the home.

“Finding one meal is impossible,” said Ahmed Al -Najjar, a displaced Palestinian in Gaza City. “People here have witnessed one charitable institution after the other, announcing that they are out of supplies, and that they are closing their operations because they are not in a situation that allows them … by granting residents to the necessary relief.”

“It is frustrating and angry that there are trucks accumulating on the other side of the fence, while trucks are deprived of the fence while people, even children, are in harsh conditions.”

Hospitals face “sharp deficiency”

Suhaib Al -Hamz, director of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, said in a statement that medical services were suffering from a “severe shortage of more than 75 percent of the basic drugs”, with just about a week of supplies staying.

He warned that most of the medical services in Enclave would stop without “immediate intervention” to reopen the borders and allow medical and humanitarian aid. He added that patients, who “die slowly every day without treatment”, need to evacuate urgently.

The ongoing blockade is the longest like that the Gaza Strip faced at all, and it came at a time when the Israeli forces continued to bomb the region, killing at least 70 Palestinians and wounding 275 others over the two days extending from Thursday to Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health.

On Saturday, two women were killed in an Israeli air strike in a house in the town of Al -Fakhari near the southern city of Khan Yunis in Gaza, according to reports from the Arabian Peninsula.

Separately, a fisherman was killed and another wounded by an Israeli maritime attack off the coast of Gaza City.

Later in the day, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone attack on the Maousy area in southern Gaza, which was once an Israeli “safe area”.

The Israeli war on Gaza has killed at least 52,495 people and has been injured 118366 since October 7, 2023, according to the Ministry of Health. Thousands missing are assumed under dead rubble.