On Sunday, day 660 of the ongoing genocide, the Israeli military sustained its assault on the besieged, famine-stricken Gaza Strip, with continuous airstrikes and live fire targeting densely populated civilian areas. Israeli forces killed 88 Palestinians on Sunday, including 29 who were shot by snipers at the ‘aid’ sites run by a US mercenary corporation.
Hospitals in the Gaza Strip recorded six new starvation deaths, including two children, due to famine and malnutrition, over the past 24 hours.
This brings the total number of deaths from starvation to 133, including 87 children.
It’s worth noting that many new cases of malnutrition and famine are arriving at hospitals in Gaza at any given moment. At least 900,000 children in Gaza are suffering from hunger, 70,000 of whom have entered the malnutrition stage.
It is noteworthy that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) had warned that malnutrition among children under the age of five doubled between March and June 2025, as a result of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
On Sunday, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement confirming that malnutrition rates in Gaza have reached alarming levels .
According to the WHO, malnutrition is taking a dangerous path in Gaza, as evidenced by the sharp rise in the number of deaths this month.
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the deliberate blockade of Gaza and the delay in aid delivery have caused many lives lost, noting that nearly one in five children under the age of five in Gaza City suffers from severe malnutrition.
Also Sunday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission documented testimonies from inside Israeli prisons confirming the continuation of systematic crimes against prisoners, including beatings and torture, in addition to the policy of starvation and medical neglect.
The Commission stated in a report published Sunday that the Israeli prison administration continues to commit crimes against prisoners, with the fate of more than 10,000 prisoners, including women and children, increasingly at risk.
According to The Guardian, human rights groups report a sharp rise in the number of doctors detained by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza.
As of now, 28 Palestinian doctors, including eight senior specialists, are held in Israeli prisons, 21 of them for over 400 days without charges, according to Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW).
The most recent arrest was Dr Marwan al-Hams, head of a Rafah hospital, detained by an Israeli undercover unit near a Red Cross field hospital.
Since the Israeli genocide against the people of Gaza began in October 2023, more than 400 healthcare workers have been detained by Israel, with allegations of torture, beatings, and denial of medical care.
Two senior doctors, Dr Iyad al-Rantisi and Dr Adnan al-Bursh, died in Israeli custody, reportedly from torture and sexual violence, though their bodies have not been returned to their families.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched a genocide against the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of at least 59,821 Palestinian citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 144,851 others, in a preliminary toll, as a number of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach them.
The following attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians in Gaza on Sunday, July 27th, 2025, were documented by local sources:
11:02 pm
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bombed, on Sunday evening, Al-Tuffah and Shuja’iyya neighborhoods in Gaza City.
Local sources reported that the two neighborhoods were bombed by occupation aircraft and artillery.
5:52 pm
Four citizens were killed and others injured on Sunday when the Israeli occupation forces targeted civilians in Gaza City and Khan Yunis.
Medical sources at the Baptist Hospital reported that a female citizen was killed in an Israeli airstrike near Salah al-Din Mosque in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City.
The sources added that Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a group of citizens near the Shuja’iyya bus station east of Gaza City, wounding a number of them.
A medical source at Nasser Medical Complex said that a Palestinian was killed in an Israeli airstrike northwest of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
Aftermath of the Israeli strike in Khan Younis:
Two citizens were also killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike in the Ramida area of Bani Suhaila, east of the Strip.
Al-Shifa Hospital announced the death of 46-year-old Salah Manasra due to starvation and malnutrition.
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12:39 pm report:
At least 43 Palestinians have been killed Sunday, including 29 who were attempting to access food and humanitarian aid. Dozens more were injured across the destroyed coastal enclave.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said malnutrition and the lack of medicine has claimed the lives of six Palestinians, including two children, in the last twenty-four hours.
The director of the Shifa Hospital in Gaza said hospital in the enclave confirmed the death of three Palestinians, including a child, due to malnutrition and the lack of medicine.
In Gaza City’s western Rimal neighborhood, a child was killed and multiple civilians wounded after Israeli forces shelled a residential apartment.
In southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, seven Palestinians were killed when the army bombarded tents sheltering displaced families in the Mawasi area. Numerous others sustained injuries.
Medical sources confirmed that six Palestinians, including two children, were killed and many injured near an aid center southwest of Khan Younis.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part, another six were killed in a similar attack near a another aid center.
In central Gaza, near the Netzarim corridor, eleven Palestinians were killed and at least 50 wounded when troops opened fire at civilians waiting for food. Similar assaults took place near Zikim in the north, resulting in additional injuries.
Meanwhile, medical staff at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat reported the death of 10-year-old Nour Abu Sal’a, who succumbed to severe hunger and malnutrition.
Her death raised Gaza’s child starvation toll to 86, and the total number of confirmed starvation-related deaths to 128.
Hospitals across Gaza are overwhelmed with cases of acute malnutrition and famine. According to health officials, an estimated 900,000 children are facing hunger, with roughly 70,000 entering the dangerous phase of clinical malnutrition.
🚨Shocking scenes from Gaza: children ravaged by famine and malnutrition — thin bodies, eyes searching for life, and at any moment, they may be added to the list of the dead.
Baby Judy Al-Arouri is wasting away from hunger.
She’s not even six months old. pic.twitter.com/jgMhv5yfZi— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) July 26, 2025
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) previously reported that malnutrition among children under five has doubled between March and June, attributing the spike to Israel’s blockade.
In a statement to ABC News, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid, calling it a “clear violation of international law.”
He denounced the growing civilian casualties, saying, “A one-year-old infant is not a Hamas fighter. These scenes of suffering cannot be justified.”
He emphasized that obstructing food access is a blatant breach of international law, which prohibits punishing innocents for political or military conflicts.
Although Australia has no immediate plans to recognize a Palestinian state, Albanese expressed conditional openness, stating it would depend on credible guarantees of viability, stability, and security.
Separately, the Israeli army announced a purported “daily pause in operations” between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. in three areas, Al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah, and Gaza City, where it claims no ground forces are stationed.
Some children in Gaza have lost up to 80% of their body weight as Israel throttles food supplies and massacres Palestinians at “aid” sites. pic.twitter.com/z2qRALyEbr
— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 27, 2025
Israel also said it had established what is called “secure corridors” from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. for humanitarian convoys.
However, Al-Jazeera correspondent Hind Khodary, reporting from Deir al-Balah, noted that the announcement shocked many Palestinians, who remain unsure how aid trucks, and the civilians trying to reach them, will be protected during and after distribution.
Dr. Monir Al-Barsh, Director-General of Gaza’s Health Ministry, reiterated that a humanitarian pause is meaningless unless it results in actual lifesaving measures.
He called for the urgent evacuation of patients with brain and spinal injuries requiring specialized care, alongside those needing complex surgeries unavailable due to the collapse of Gaza’s health infrastructure.
Dr. Al-Barsh also stressed the importance of delivering therapeutic milk and nutritional supplements for infants and young children suffering from life-threatening hunger. “Every hour of delay translates into another funeral,” he said.
“Silence from the international community is a death sentence for children, left to perish in their mothers’ arms, without medicine, without milk, and without hope.”
On Saturday, the Israeli army killed at least 71 Palestinians, including 22 who were seeking food, across the Gaza Strip.
On its part, the Israeli army said two soldiers were killed in southern Gaza Saturday, after Palestinian fighters detonated their armored personnel carrier with an explosive device in Khan Younis.
The army confirmed the death of a senior officer and a soldier from the Golani Brigade following the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) in southern Gaza on Saturday.
According to Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, military sources said the IED had been planted directly onto an armored personnel carrier, resulting in the deaths of the two soldiers and wounding another officer.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters targeted two Israeli armored personnel carriers with explosives placed inside their command compartments. Following the destruction and burning of both vehicles, a third carrier was hit with a Yassin-105 rocket-propelled grenade in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis.
The Brigades added that the fighters observed Israeli engineering equipment attempting to bury the charred vehicles, while helicopters were deployed to evacuate the wounded.
Since the onset of the genocide in Gaza, at least 898 Israeli soldiers have been killed by Palestinian fighters; the figures include those killed on October 7, 2023.
Since October 7, 2023, the number of Palestinians killed has risen to 59,733, most of them children and women, with 144,477 wounded. These figures remain incomplete, as many victims are still trapped under rubble or lie in inaccessible areas where rescue teams cannot reach.
