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04-05-2025
GAZA STRIP: A baby girl identified as Janan Saleh al-Sakafi has died of malnutrition and dehydration in the Rantisi Hospital, west of Gaza City, more than two months after the start of Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip, according to a media team on the ground.
Meanwhile, Israeli attacks have killed at least 30 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues.
Israel’s army has confirmed carrying out a wave of air attacks in Syria on Friday evening that killed at least one person, claiming the targets were “a military site, anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missile infrastructure in Syria”.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 52,495 Palestinians and wounded 118,366, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The Gaza Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Settlers harass journalists
Israeli settlers are harassing Palestinian journalists near the village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
According to current situation, two women have been killed in an Israeli air raid on a house in the town of al-Fakhari near Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis, according to journalists.
A fisherman has been killed and another injured by an Israeli naval attack off the coast of Gaza City.
A 13-year-old boy has been shot and wounded by Israeli forces in the village of Zababdeh, south of the occupied West Bank’s Jenin city, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) cited by the Wafa news agency.
Suhaib al-Hams, the director of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Gaza’s southern town of Rafah, has issued a statement raising alarm over acute shortages of most medicines and essential foods needed for patients after two months of Israeli blockade.
At least 70 Palestinians have been killed and 275 others wounded in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
‘Gaza has been under food restriction since 2006’
Dr Mads Gilbert, an emergency medicine doctor with more than 30 years of experience in Gaza, has talked to media on the continuing humanitarian crisis caused by the Israeli blockade.
He explains how starvation and malnutrition are being used as weapons of war, leading to severe health issues, especially in children.
Gilbert highlights the lack of international intervention and the devastating effects on Gaza’s population.
Hamas calls
The Palestinian group has said in a statement that the governments of Arab and Muslim countries “have not fulfilled their expected duty to stop the open massacre and famine” ongoing in the enclave.
Hamas urged the governments in question to use their influence “to pressure the US administration and the countries supporting the Zionist aggression”.
Israel’s separation wall to isolate occupied West Bank villages
The Israeli government is constructing a new separation wall in the occupied West Bank.
Large areas of Palestinian agricultural land have been confiscated to build it.
The partition will isolate villages, leaving many people worried. (Int’l News Desk)
