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13-08-2025
GAZA STRIP: At least 89 Palestinians, including 31 aid seekers, have been killed and 513 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
As Israel keeps pounding Gaza, five more Palestinians, including two children, have starved to death in the enclave, according to the Health Ministry, raising the total number of hunger-related deaths to 227, including 103 children.
Palestinians have held funerals for four Al Jazeera journalists assassinated by Israel in Gaza as protesters rallied around the world against the killings, including in London, Berlin, Tunis and Ramallah.
The EU, China and Israel’s close ally Germany have condemned the targeted attack while the UN has described it as a “grave breach of international humanitarian law”.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,599 people and wounded 154,088. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Israel’s army says a drone launched from Yemen was intercepted by its Air Force “a short while ago”.
“No sirens were sounded in accordance with protocol,” its statement said on Telegram.
‘Genocide in Gaza is the worst I’ve ever seen’
Israel has killed at least 237 journalists and media workers since it launched its war on Gaza, according to the Gaza Government Media Office. At least nine of them worked for Al Jazeera.
Janine di Giovanni is the executive director of The Reckoning Project and a senior fellow in human rights at Yale University.
She says she’s worked 35 years as a war correspondent, but the genocide in Gaza is the worst she’s ever seen.
The Elders group of international stateswomen and statesmen, for the first time, has called the situation in Gaza an “unfolding genocide”, saying Israel’s obstruction of aid was causing a “famine”.
“Today we express our shock and outrage at Israel’s deliberate obstruction of the entry of life-saving humanitarian aid into Gaza,” the nongovernmental group of public figures, founded by former South African President Nelson Mandela in 2007, said in a statement after delegates visited border crossings in Egypt.
“What we saw and heard underlines our personal conviction that there is not only an unfolding, human-caused famine in Gaza. There is an unfolding genocide,” it added.
Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand, called on Israel to open the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza so aid could be delivered, after visiting the site.
“Many new mothers are unable to feed themselves or their newborn babies adequately, and the health system is collapsing,” she said. “All of this threatens the very survival of an entire generation.”
Clark was joined by Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and former UN high commissioner for human rights, on the visit.
She said international leaders “have the power and the legal obligation to apply measures to pressure this Israeli government to end its atrocity crimes”.
Barakat says he believes global coverage of the war in Gaza has changed significantly in recent months, partially due to slain Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif’s coverage of spreading malnutrition.
“I think there has been a shift overall in how the media is reporting on Gaza. And you can see it in some of the main outlets,” the public policy professor told Al Jazeera. “People have started to see through the Israeli narrative.” (Al Jazeera)
