According to emergency services reports here in Gaza, two Palestinians were killed today, including a woman, and more than 20 were injured while trying to access food supplies near the controversial GHF in Rafah.
It has been very clear that Palestinians who are going to these aid centres have become mentally exhausted, and they are suffering from severe malnutrition, which is why they are still taking the risk to go to these aid centres to bring back food for their families.
Also, many have not been eating for days.
But recently, I have heard firsthand accounts from locals confirming that Israel started to use suicide drones to target civilians … who were trying to approach the controversial GHF aid hubs in Rafah and central areas.
Also, we are getting more reports that there have been relentless Israeli attacks and fire by Israeli ground forces against civilians, in particular against women, who were visibly disarmed, exhausted and drained, looking for any kind of food and water to feed their children.
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This brings the total number of people who have died from hunger-related causes since the start of the war to 181, including 94 children.
In total, at least 21 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Monday morning, according to medical sources.
A source at al-Awda Hospital said seven aid seekers were killed and 20 others injured after Israeli forces opened fire near a GHF aid hub in central Gaza.
Emergency and ambulance services reported that two people, including a woman, were killed and more than 20 others wounded near the GHF aid distribution point in the Al-Shakoush neighbourhood on the outskirts of Rafah.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital confirmed the death toll from an Israeli air attack on a house in Deir el-Balah has risen to three.
Two people were killed in Israeli bombing on Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza, according to emergency services.
A source at the al-Ahli Hospital reported that seven people were killed in Israeli shelling on multiple areas in the Shujayea neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
At least 18 former chiefs of Israel’s security agencies, including Mossad, the Shin Bet, the Israeli army and police, have called for an end to the war on Gaza.
In a video shared on social media, the former senior officials say the war has resulted in limited military gains, failing to bring the remaining captives home. They also said the 22-month war has inflicted severe reputational damage on Israel and could have ended a long time ago.
“This war stopped being a just war. This is leading the state of Israel to the loss of its security and its identity,” said Ami Ayalon, a former head of the domestic intelligence service Shin Bet.
“We are on the precipice of defeat,” said Tamir Pardo, a former chief of the spy agency Mossad. “No matter how good the army is, a war with no political goal is a guarantee of defeat.”
Amos Malka, a former military intelligence chief, said it’s been more than a year “past the point where we could have ended the war with a sufficient operational achievement”.
Instead, “we are now mostly offsetting losses,” ex-Shin Bet director Nadav Argaman can be heard as saying
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