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Over 100 Palestinians killed in fresh Israeli airstrikes, with 61 deaths reported in Gaza City alone.
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Starvation-related deaths in Gaza have risen to 235, including 106 children.
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UN experts accuse Israel of systematically targeting Gaza’s healthcare system.
No fewer than 100 Palestinians have lost their lives in renewed airstrikes carried out by Israeli forces across various parts of Gaza, according to health officials.
Eko Hot Blog reported that the significant number of the fatalities occurred in Gaza City, where intensified attacks on the northern areas claimed the lives of at least 61 people.
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The latest wave of violence also targeted civilians attempting to access aid. Reports from local health facilities confirmed that air raids near aid distribution points north of Gaza City killed at least 12 individuals, while a separate incident north of Rafah led to the deaths of 16 more.
Additionally, another 14 civilians were killed and over 100 others injured in the north while waiting for food aid.
Amid the ongoing bombardment, Gaza’s worsening humanitarian crisis has reached alarming levels. In the past 24 hours alone, eight people including three children died from hunger and related complications, as confirmed by Gaza’s Health Ministry.
This brings the total number of deaths linked to starvation since the conflict began in October 2023 to 235, with children accounting for nearly half.
In a heartfelt reaction, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees described the rising number of child deaths as a direct assault on the innocence and future of Gaza’s youth.
He stressed that the scale of suffering includes more than 40,000 children either killed or injured by airstrikes, 17,000 left alone without parents or guardians, and over one million children severely traumatised and out of school.
“Children are children, no matter where they are,” he stated. “The world must not stay silent while the young lose their lives or are stripped of their future in Gaza.”
Meanwhile, global concern has grown over Israel’s repeated strikes on hospitals, paramedics, and medical facilities across the enclave.
United Nations experts on Wednesday described the pattern as a deliberate effort to destroy the health system a practice they labelled “medicide.”
According to the experts, healthcare workers and institutions have been systematically targeted in a strategy designed to paralyse medical response in Gaza.
They called on the international community to take urgent steps to ensure the protection of healthcare services and humanitarian workers.
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