Gaza, famine
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Women and children make up roughly half the total, which doesn't include people who've died of hunger-related illness.
Gaza is slipping into famine, UN-backed experts warned Tuesday, as the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said the death toll in the nearly 22-month war had surpassed 60,000.The health ministry figure excludes deaths from hunger in the Palestinian territory gripped by dire humanitarian conditions made worse by Israel's total blockade of aid from March to May.
The new trickle of aid Israel has allowed into Gaza is not enough to stave off famine, aid groups have warned, as a new round of "tactical pauses" were set to take place Monday
Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed more than 50 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including some who were waiting overnight for aid, according to local health officials, continuing a pattern that has drawn international criticism as the country’s “drip-feeding of aid” into the enclave continues to claim lives.
The grim footage, shot by a reporter on the ground, captured scores of people clamoring on top of two moving trucks in southern Gaza on Saturday just days after images of starving Palestinian
Israeli airstrike on Gaza City apartment killed woman, her four children shortly after Israeli military said it would begin limited pause on attacks
If Israelis want to protest: get in your cars, stuff your cars full of food, drive through that border and let your own army stop you.”
A civilian ship carrying aid to Palestinians in Gaza was intercepted by the Israeli military in international waters on Saturday, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition confirmed.