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11-08-2025
GAZA STRIP: Israeli attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip have killed at least eight Palestinians as the death toll from Israeli-induced starvation since the war began rises to 212, including 98 children.
The United Nations Security Council is set to hold a rare weekend session to discuss Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City and forcibly displace nearly a million Palestinians.
Protesters have gathered in major cities across the world, from Buenos Aires to London and Istanbul, urging world leaders to take action and end Israel’s war on Gaza.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,369 people and wounded 152,850. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Israeli attacks have killed over dozen Palestinians during last 24 hours
Over a dozen people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip during last 24 hours.
Seven people were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting Palestinians in central Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Five people were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli attack targeting aid seekers along the Netzarim corridor and three person was killed near the Morag corridor in Khan Younis.
UN Security Council to meet over Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City
The UN Security Council (UNSC) will hold an emergency session to discuss Israel’s plan to capture and occupy Gaza City.
The plan, approved by Israel’s Security Cabinet on Friday, has drawn international criticism. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it a “dangerous escalation” in the 22-month war in the Gaza Strip.
The meeting, requested by Denmark, France, Greece, the United Kingdom and Slovenia, will begin at 10am (14:00 GMT) in New York. According to the UNSC report, all members except the United States supported the move to convene.
UN rapporteurs are expected to outline the potential consequences of seizing Gaza’s main city.
Following Israel’s decision, Germany, the UK, Italy, New Zealand and Australia issued a joint statement rejecting the plan, warning it would worsen the humanitarian crisis, endanger captives’ lives, and risk mass civilian displacement.
Aid drops providing less than 1 percent of Gaza’s food needs
Palestinian writer and analyst Muhammad Shehada says all of the combined airdrops of aid into the Gaza Strip over the last week have totalled about the equivalent of 15 aid trucks, “which is less than 1 percent of what Gaza needs on a normal day for basic survival”.
Aid agencies have been seeking the entry of at least 600 trucks daily to address the dire situation in Gaza, which has seen more than 200 people die of starvation.
Shehada, a senior fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations, says “complicit countries” are participating in parachuting aid into Gaza, “not to address the hunger, not to end it, but to sustain it [and] cover it up” with “headline-grabbing gestures”.
Israel’s consistent policy for the past two decades has been to allow in fewer trucks than could provide the “minimal calorie count” Palestinians need to survive, in what Israelis have called putting Palestinians on a “starvation-plus diet”, Shehada said, referring to Israel’s air, land and sea blockade of Gaza since 2007.
He added that Israel’s intention is to make “the situation as miserable” as possible so that people have no choice but to leave Gaza, which “Israel now calls voluntary migration”. (Int’l News Desk)
