al jazeera

By Stephen Quillen and Nils Adler

Gaza death toll rises

    The Palestinian Health Ministry is reporting that at least 98 people were killed and 1,079 wounded by Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours.

    The figure includes 39 people killed while waiting for food aid.

    With that, the death toll from the attacks since October 2023 has gone up to 60,430, with 148,722 wounded.

‘We’re like dogs chasing after a bone’

    The air drops taking place over Gaza are supposed to be a welcome relief but often, the pallets of air-dropped aid are damaged when they crash on landing.

    People are forced to sift through sand for bits of food and scrape whatever they can off the ground. Palestinians say they feel completely humiliated by the process.

    “We’re like dogs chasing after a bone. Why do they throw things like that  We don’t want them to help us in that way ” Rana Attia, a displaced Palestinian in Gaza, told Al Jazeera.

    Eslam al-Telbany, also displaced by Israel’s war, said she ran after the aid dropped from the sky.

    “I went and my children prayed that I returned with food. They haven’t eaten or drunk anything for two days.

    “This breaks my heart that they’re waiting for me to feed them”, she said as she broke down in tears.

Seven deaths in Gaza due to malnutrition in 24 hours

    The director of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital said that hospitals in Gaza have documented seven deaths, including a child, as a result of starvation and malnutrition over the past 24 hours.

    This brings the total of Palestinians who have died due to malnutrition and starvation since Israel began its war on the Palestinian enclave to 169, including 93 children.

    Medical sources also said that 30 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since this morning, including 13 aid seekers.