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21-05-2025
GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces bombard Gaza, killing at least 73 people since midnight, including attack on displacement shelter in Gaza City that killed 22, including children.
The leaders of Canada, France and the UK threaten to take “concrete action” against Israel if it does not end its renewed offensive in Gaza, while 22 countries urge Israel to let aid into the besieged enclave.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismisses the calls and pledges to press on with the offensive, which includes plans for Israel to take control of the whole of Gaza.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,573 Palestinians and wounded 121,688, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The 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.
Gaza’s death toll rises
Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 87 people and wounded 290 during the past 24-hour reporting period, according to the latest daily update by the Health Ministry in the besieged and bombarded territory.
The casualties bring the total number of people confirmed killed in Gaza during the war to 53,573 with 121,688 wounded, the ministry said.
Many victims are still missing under the rubble where rescuers cannot reach them, it added.
The urgent calls to get humanitarian aid into Gaza are being made against a backdrop of acute suffering among Palestinians.
According to the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), more than 93 percent of children in Gaza – about 930,000 – are at risk of famine due to the ongoing war and blockade.
Since early March, at least 57 children are reported to have died from malnutrition.
If Israel’s blockade of the Strip continues, it says, nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to suffer acute malnutrition during the next 11 months.
Families in Gaza are resorting to eating animal feed, expired flour and flour mixed with sand, while children suffer from hunger-induced illnesses such as diarrhoea and extreme fatigue. Israeli raids continue across Gaza, causing casualties from northern Beit Lahiya to southern Khan Younis. At least 73 people have been killed today, according to local medical sources.
The UN says about 100 aid trucks have been cleared to enter Gaza today, after just a trickle got through yesterday for the first time in 11 weeks.
Humanitarian groups say the amount of aid promised barely scratches the surface of the needs in Gaza, where half a million people face starvation.
Among them are 14,000 children that a UN humanitarian official warns could die within 48 hours without urgent aid.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Golan is facing an onslaught of criticism in Israel after saying the country is becoming a “pariah state” ruled by people with “no morals”.
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned Israel’s targeting of the Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics in Gaza City on Monday as a “flagrant violation of international law, international humanitarian law, and humanitarian norms”.
In a statement on X, the ministry warned against Israel’s escalation in Gaza and its “continued perpetration of systematic crimes against the defenceless Palestinian people without deterrence or accountability”. (Int’l News Desk)
