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15-07-2025
GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces have continued to pound Gaza, striking a busy market and a water distribution point, killing at least 95 Palestinians, as the death toll from Israel’s war on the enclave passed the grim milestone of 58,000.
The Israeli attack on the Gaza City market killed at least 17 people on Sunday, including prominent doctor Ahmed Qandil, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
In the central Nuseirat refugee camp, an Israeli missile attack struck a water collection point, killing at least 10 people.
Most of the victims were children who had queued up to collect drinking water, according to medical sources. At least 17 others were also wounded.
The Israeli military is yet to comment on the Gaza City market strike, but said its attack on Nuseirat was aimed at a Palestinian fighter and had veered off course due to technical failure.
The Israeli claim could not be independently verified.
The deadly attacks come as Gaza’s water shortage continues to worsen, with desalination and sanitation plants shutting down due to the ongoing Israeli blockade of fuel. Many residents now rely on dangerous journeys to limited water collection points.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Sunday that the overall confirmed death toll from Israel’s war has now risen to 58,026 people. More than half of those killed since the war began on October 7, 2023, have been women and children.
The ministry said at least 138,500 others have also been wounded.
The war and Israel’s siege have also left 2.1 million people in Gaza on the brink of famine, with the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, announcing the death of another infant from malnutrition.
‘Child survival emergency’
The seven-month-old girl, Salam, died while being treated by UNRWA staff on Sunday, the agency said. The latest death came a day after authorities in Gaza said at least 67 children had already died of malnutrition since Israel’s war began.
The UN’s children’s agency, UNICEF, meanwhile, said that more than 5,800 children were diagnosed with malnutrition in Gaza in June, including more than 1,000 children in severe condition. The figure marks an increase for the fourth month in a row, the agency said in a post on social media.
“Children’s bodies are wasting away. This is not just a nutrition crisis. It’s a child survival emergency,” the group added.
UNICEF and seven other UN agencies also issued a separate joint statement, warning that Israel’s blockade on the entry of fuel supplies into Gaza is threatening to shut down hospitals, water systems, sanitation networks and ambulances in the Strip.
In the statement, the agencies, which also included the World Food Program, the World Health Organization and the UN humanitarian office (OCHA), said they may have to stop their operations entirely “without adequate fuel”.
“This means no health services, no clean water, and no capacity to deliver aid,” the agencies said. “Fuel must be allowed into Gaza in sufficient quantities and consistently to sustain life-saving operations.”
Gaza’s Government Media Office, meanwhile, accused Israel and security contractors working at aid distribution points of intentionally attacking civilians. In a statement, it called United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites “death traps” and described the situation as “genocide engineering under US sponsorship”. (Int’l News Desk)
