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08-05-2025
GAZA STRIP: Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed at least 57 people since dawn, targeting civilians in crowded places, as it’s more than two-month blockade of the besieged and bombarded enclave has caused acute food shortages, accelerating the starvation of the Palestinian population.
A reconnaissance drone strike targeted an area near the Thai and Palmyra restaurants in al-Wehda Street, in Gaza City. Two missiles were fired at two locations at the same time, 100 metres apart, one inside a restaurant and another at the intersection, killing at least 17 people.
More relentless Israeli strikes were scattered across Gaza on Wednesday, with 13 people killed and several more injured, in a strike targeting al-Karama School in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.
Also in the north, another three people were killed and several were wounded in a strike on a house in Jabalia.
Another eight people, including a father, his children and cousins, were killed in Khan Younis city in the south, including five in a strike on one home.
Another three people including a child, died after a tent shelter was attacked in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. A husband and wife were also killed when a house was hit in Bani Suheila village in the east of the Strip.
The dead included four people who were recovered from under the rubble after an Israeli attack earlier this week on a school sheltering displaced people in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. The Palestinian Civil Defence agency said on Tuesday night that more than 30 people had been killed and dozens wounded there.
‘Scrambling for cover’
Reporting from Gaza City, a journalist Hani Mahmoud said Palestinians were “scrambling for cover” as air strikes and explosions struck residential buildings and evacuation centres.
“We have confirmed that a farmer was killed in the eastern part of Khan Younis, in Abasan, as he was trying to harvest what he managed to plant in the past couple of months, making up for the lack of food,” Mahmoud said.
“This is one of the elements that we have been seeing quite visibly. Not only are they suffering on a daily basis because of the enforced starvation and dehydration, they (also) try to plant their own food, but they are deprived, and their abilities to do so are [thwarted] by the ongoing attacks,” he added.
The intensified attacks have been compounded by an Israeli blockade on essential supplies since March 2, leaving the enclave deprived of fuel items and food, including a worsening shortage of flour. Aid groups have said food supplies are close to total depletion.
A mother of six sheltering at a United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) facility in Gaza told the agency they had run out of all types of food, with only bread available.
“The State of Israel must lift the siege,” UNRWA wrote on Wednesday.
“There must be a concerted international effort to stop this humanitarian catastrophe from reaching a new unseen level,” it added.
Gaza’s health sector is also facing the brunt of the ongoing attacks and the blockade, with at least 88 percent of beds in hospitals occupied and a shortage of medical disposables.
On Wednesday morning, Egypt and Qatar, who both mediated the first ceasefire deal alongside the United States, reaffirmed their commitment to an agreement aimed at ending the “unprecedented humanitarian crisis and alleviating the suffering of civilians by fostering the necessary conditions for achieving a comprehensive ceasefire”. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
