On Wednesday, August 27th, 2025, day 691 of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, residents of the besieged, starved, and devastated Gaza Strip continue to endure a deepening famine amid relentless Israeli bombardment. In the past 24 hours, Israeli forced killed over 70 Palestinians, 11 of whom were killed while trying to obtain aid at the US corporate-run ‘aid’ sites, which are essentially gladiator-style arenas where Palestinians are forced to fight each other for small amounts of food, as the population continues to starve with no access to food aid.
Medical sources announced the starvation deaths of 10 citizens, including two children, during the past 24 hours. The total number of victims of famine and malnutrition rose to 313 in Gaza, including 119 children, mainly in the past four months.
Every moment, new cases of malnutrition and famine reach hospitals in Gaza, where 900,000 children in Gaza suffer from hunger, 70,000 of whom have entered the stage of malnutrition.
At Al-Helou International Hospital in Gaza City, 3 babies share a single incubator due to lack of space, supplies & their increasing malnutrition:
Right now there are 17,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition, and hospitals do not have medical beds and medicines sufficient for the huge number of people suffering from acute malnutrition.
Israeli forces killed Yaqub and Luay Abu Jarad along with their parents, in a bomb dropped on their tent:
Journalist Ihab Hassan reported: Jouri Lafi, just 4 years old, was killed today by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis, Gaza. 
Her parents hold Jouri’s body and grieve for the child:
The young man Ahmad Alaa Al-Batniji passed away due to malnutrition, after being deprived of the corn flour necessary for his nutrition because of his wheat allergy and the continuation of the siege on Gaza. This painful incident reflects the magnitude of the humanitarian tragedy and the shortage of food and medicine in the sector:
Gaza City Forced Displacement:
The Israeli military is pushing deeper into Gaza City, destroying entire neighborhoods and leaving Palestinian families with nowhere safe to go.
In the Sabra neighborhood, heavy gunfire accompanies the advance of Israeli tanks, trapping residents under relentless shelling and causing numerous casualties.
Journalist Youssef Fares reports about the forced displacement of residents in Gaza’s Al-Saftawi neighborhood as families face relentless Israeli threats, leaving them with no choice but to flee.
A local source documented the moment an Israeli airstrike leveled an entire area of Gaza City. The intensity of the attack was such that even animals were not spared.
Since the beginning of the war, Israeli strikes have targeted extensive infrastructure across the Strip, leaving widespread destruction, including to buildings, wildlife, and the natural environment.
Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians documented on Wednesday:
11 pm
A child was killed and others injured after Israeli occupation helicopters struck a home in Al-Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip.
Israeli artillery shells Jabalia Al-Balad and Al-Nazla in northern Gaza.
10 pm
A Palestinian child was injured after Israeli aircraft bombed a displaced family’s tent in northern Al-Shati neighborhood west of Gaza City.
7 pm
This Wednesday evening, 4 citizens waiting for aid were killed by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in the northern Gaza Strip.
A Wafa correspondent said that the occupation forces opened fire on citizens waiting for aid in northern Gaza, killing 4 of them and wounding others.
Later, medical sources said that a martyr arrived at Al-Awda Hospital after the occupation forces targeted gatherings of citizens near an aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street in the central Gaza Strip.
10:11 am
Four citizens awaiting aid were killed and others were injured by Israeli occupation army bullets near the Al-Tina Aid Center, southwest of the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The occupation’s artillery shelling continues towards the southern neighborhoods of Jabalia al-Nazla, north of Gaza.
The occupation aircraft launched two raids on agricultural land in the Al-Sawariha area, west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
According to medical sources, 11 Palestinian citizens were killed and 30 others were injured during the past 24 hours, as a result of the occupation forces’ shelling of citizens’ gatherings at the humanitarian aid distribution point in the central Gaza Strip, in addition to other targets.
Among those killed were two who were killed south of the Gaza Valley in Netzarim, while the rest of the injuries were recorded as a result of the bombing that targeted various areas in the central Gaza Strip, and 9 serious injuries were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital to complete receiving treatment.
8 am:
A number of citizens were killed and injured, Wednesday morning, in the occupation’s air and land bombing of various parts of the Gaza Strip.
Wafa news correspondents reported, citing medical sources, that two citizens were killed and others were injured in the occupation’s artillery shelling of a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City.
The same sources added that a number of citizens were injured when an occupation drone bombed a tent housing displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
The occupation also continues to bomb homes in the Al-Zaytoun and Al-Sabra neighborhoods, south of Gaza City, with booby-trapped robots, in conjunction with ongoing artillery shelling.
A short while ago, it was announced that a child had been killed near Kissufim, east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Three citizens from the Abu Jarad family, including a child and a woman, were killed when the occupation forces bombed a tent housing displaced people in the Asdaa area, north of Khan Yunis.
Artillery shelling and gunfire from occupation vehicles continue north of Khan Yunis.
Also Wednesday:
In a remarkable development that reflects the extent of European concern about the continuation of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, more than 209 former European diplomats, including 110 ambassadors, directed Former and high-ranking EU officials, as well as 99 former ambassadors from France, Germany and Italy, And 25 senior directors-general, an open letter to European Union institutions, in which they called for urgent and concrete measures to pressure Israel to stop military operations and respect international law.
The diplomats touched on the nine measures proposed by the European Union, which they listed in their open letter, in response to the illegal measures taken by the Israeli government in Gaza and the West Bank, expressing their concern about the Israeli government implementing plans to empty Gaza City and its suburbs of one million Palestinians, by forcing them to move to concentration camps in the south, in preparation for possible large-scale deportations to third countries with the risk of provoking a migration crisis.
Based on the Integrated Interim Classification of Food Security (IPC), on the 22nd of this month, a man-made famine was declared in these same areas of Gaza, with half a million people there facing hunger, destitution, and death. By the end of September 2025, an estimated 640,000 people (one-third of the population) will face catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
Also posted today by Palestinian writer Yousri Alghoul:
A message to the Israeli Military from Gaza City: We Are Not Leaving
I am Yousri Alghoul, a Palestinian writer, journalist, and civilian like the vast majority of Gaza’s population today, if not all of them, since you have already killed the fighters and their families.
I did not displace to the south of Gaza before, and I will not flee today. I will remain in what’s left of my house, much of which has already been destroyed. I simply can’t walk 40 kilometers on foot while there is no transportation left. You’ve destroyed the cars, buses, and trucks, even the animal-drawn carts.
I cannot carry gallons of water, household items, books, clothes, bedding, and some food just to live in the open under a sky swarming with your warplanes — the same drones and planes that don’t distinguish between a child or a woman — and sit there awaiting my death, as you have done to hundreds of my people every single day.
However, you kill in every brutal way imaginable: Snipers at the gates of American aid (GHF), shelling of civilian houses, burning tents, or burying children alive beneath the rubble.
That is why I have decided to stay, to resist.
Even if your artillery continues raining bloodshed on innocent people in the streets and homes.
Even if it costs me my life.
You show no regard for any human life other than your own. You are filled with a deep hatred for others, even our Christian brethren, and Judaism, like all true religions, is innocent of what you do.
I will not displace to anywhere. Do what you will.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The genocide has left 62,819 killed, 158,629 wounded, most of them children and women, with more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that has killed 313 citizens, including 119 children, as of today.
