On Saturday, Day 666 of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israeli army continued bombing various parts of the starved, devastated, and besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least 37 Palestinians,including three women, as well as a child who died from malnutrition.
Over the past 48 hours, 90 Palestinians have been shot by Israeli snipers while seeking food aid for their starving families.
[The ‘featured image’ on this article shows an aerial photo of Gaza City taken yesterday by a French journalist who accompanied the so-called ‘aid drops’, risking her career in releasing the photo, as the Israeli military ordered all journalists that they must not take any aerial photos of Gaza]
A Palestinian man in Gaza shows that the very few aerial ‘aid drops’ that have been made over the past several days have dropped spoiled and rotten food which is easily taken by criminals and sold at high prices:
In addition, the army launched airstrikes targeting the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) building and a school sheltering displaced families in the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The strike on the PRCS facility ignited a fire and resulted in multiple casualties, including the death of one staff member.
In a related attack, an Israeli drone targeted a school serving as a refuge for displaced civilians in the same neighborhood, leading to the killing of two Palestinians and injuring several others.
Separately, Israeli artillery shelled areas north of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, further escalating the bombardment across the Strip.
Since UNRWA aid distribution (400+ locations throughout Gaza, professionally run for decades) was stopped by the US and Israel in March, aid distribution has been non-existent. The four sites that the US corporation ‘GHF’ eventually opened in late May have been extremely militarized and chaotic, with people who have entered the sites comparing them to ‘gladiator arenas’ where those with physical advantages are pitted against people who are weaker and forced to fight for the tiny amount of desperately needed food.
Children in Gaza struggle to collect leaking water from beneath a water truck amid worsening hunger and thirst due to the ongoing Israeli starvation campaign:
Children carefully picking up individual grains of rice from the sand, with the hope of cooking a small amount of rice over a fire and maybe avoid starvation for another day:
Medical sources in Gaza hospitals announced that the number of patients and wounded has exceeded the hospitals’ capacity, with bed occupancy rates at Al-Shifa Hospital reaching 240%, at Al-Rantisi Hospital 210%, at Nasser Hospital 180%, and at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital 300 %. These hospitals already have severely diminished capacity due to the repeated Israeli bombardment that destroyed whole wings and departments of the hospitals over the past 22 months.
Hospitals have resorted to laying carpet on corridors and floors to accommodate the increasing number of patients and injured, but the pieces of carpet are quickly soaked in blood and need replacing.
Mosab Abu Toha reports:
“Reported missing on July 16 by his brother. A photo of his body was shared on social media on July 31 in the hope someone would recognize him. His identity was confirmed today:
“Mahmoud Al-Khatib, lovingly known as “Hooda,” was a gentle soul with Down Syndrome. He lived in poverty with his family in Gaza and, like so many, was starved under siege. Hooda was shot and killed by Israeli forces near the Zikim Crossing—an area where he and other tens of thousands waited desperately for aid. That is where I lost a second cousin on July 20. That is where my father-in-law was critically wounded in the head yesterday.
“Mahmoud’s body seems to have been buried by Israeli bulldozers ‘perhaps to prevent stray dogs from reaching it.'”
Today in Gaza, local sources documented the following attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians:
In a new massacre targeting the starving, eight civilians were killed and others wounded by Israeli forces’ gunfire while waiting for “aid” in the northern Gaza Strip.
Two citizens were killed when they were targeted under a residential building in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
In the central Gaza Strip, the five-member Al-Qreinawi, family (a father, mother, and their three children) were killed when the Israeli occupation forces targeted their home south of the town of Al-Zawayda (details below in the morning report). A citizen was also killed and others were injured in an occupation airstrike that targeted a gathering of citizens in the town of Al-Zawayda.
Five citizens were killed and others injured by Israeli occupation forces’ gunfire near an aid distribution point near the Shuhada Junction.
In the southern Gaza Strip, three civilians were killed and others injured in a bomb attack carried out by Israeli drones on displaced people’s tents near the Industrial Area Junction north of Khan Yunis.
A woman and her daughter were killed when the Israeli occupation forces targeted a tent housing displaced persons west of Khan Yunis. Three citizens waiting for aid were also killed by occupation forces’ gunfire near a distribution point on al-Tina Street, south of Khan Yunis.
A female citizen was killed in an Israeli occupation air raid on Al-Amal neighborhood, northwest of Khan Yunis.
During the night hours, the occupation army continued to drop more bombs on Palestinian homes and businesses in the eastern areas of Khan Yunis.
In Rafah, a citizen was killed and 25 others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on people waiting for aid near a distribution point west of the city.
A number of civilians were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting an apartment belonging to the Al-Yazji family near Aydiya Street, west of Gaza City.
In Gaza City, three other civilians were killed in Israeli shelling targeting a gathering of civilians in the Shujaiya neighborhood in the east.
Three civilians were killed and 10 others were injured in Israeli airstrikes northwest of the Gaza Strip.
Hammoud, a young Palestinian boy, sifts through the debris, desperately searching for his beloved grandparents after they were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza:
Since October 7 , 2023, Israel, the occupying power, has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt their illegal actions against the entire civilian population of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
The genocide has left more than 209,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and a famine that has quickly gotten much worse over the last three weeks of complete closure and lack of any food assistance (apart from four ‘Hunger Games’ style death arenas set up by the US company GHF, where over 1000 Palestinians have been killed since May 27th).
UPDATED FROM
11:03 am report:
Medical sources in Gaza confirmed that the Israeli army killed sixteen Palestinians, including three women shot dead while waiting for humanitarian aid. Dozens more were wounded. The slain Palestinians and wounded were transferred to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
In addition, a child, Atef Abu Khader, 17, died due to complications from severe malnutrition at the Shifa hospital.
17-year-old Atif Abu Khater has died at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza due to severe malnutrition — another victim of Israel’s deliberate starvation policy. pic.twitter.com/0KvTd6lJph
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) August 2, 2025

It is worth noting that since Friday dawn, the Israeli army has killed more than 90 Palestinians near aid distribution centers and food trucks in northern, central, and southern Gaza. Three Palestinians have died from malnutrition.
International human rights groups have warned that over 500,000 Palestinians are facing severe malnutrition in the coastal enclave.
Meanwhile, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, released video footage highlighting the deteriorating condition of an Israeli captive from malnutrition.
The group stated that the Netanyahu government has opted for starvation tactics, even of its own citizens held in Gaza, instead of pursuing a prisoner exchange deal.
Furthermore, a Palestinian father, Hamed Ibrahim Al-Qreinawi, was killed along with his wife and three children when the Israeli Air Force fired a missile at their home in Zawaida town, in central Gaza.
“Amir walked 12 kilometres to get food, got nothing but scraps, thanked us for it, and died”
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a retired US Army Green Beret, says Israeli soldiers and American mercenaries turned GHF aid sites into “death traps” — where starving Palestinians… pic.twitter.com/UVusOPpsMK
— TRT World (@trtworld) August 1, 2025
A source at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, reported that another Palestinian was killed and several others wounded in an Israeli bombing west of Zawaida.
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, three Palestinians from the Sammour family were killed and many injured when an Israeli drone dropped a bomb on tents sheltering displaced families near the Sena’a junction, in the northern part of the city.
Additionally, Rana Ramzi Abu Hamra and her mother Hana’ Abu Harma were killed in an Israeli bombing that struck a tent in the northwestern area of Khan Younis.
The Israeli army also wired and detonated homes and buildings around the Al-Amal neighborhood, north of Khan Younis.
In Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost region, the Israeli army killed three Palestinian and injured 25 others near a food distribution center in the northern part of the city.
Medical personnel at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza confirmed the death of teenager Atef Abu Khater on Saturday, due to extreme malnutrition and starvation. His death adds to the mounting toll of famine-related victims amid Gaza’s deepening humanitarian catastrophe.
The people of Gaza are being starved.
“This is a man-made #famine. It needs to be addressed through political means,” UNRWA Commissioner-General @UNLazzarini tells @SkyNews
Gaza must be flooded with large-scale food aid — immediately, consistently, and without obstruction.… pic.twitter.com/KkWMuXQMF0
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) August 2, 2025
Earlier in the week, reports indicated that eight additional civilians had died from hunger and malnutrition, raising the death toll to 155, among them at least 90 children.
This humanitarian emergency has been driven by a tightening blockade and unrelenting military operations initiated by Israel on October 7, 2023.
Since March 2, 2025, all entry points to Gaza have been sealed, halting nearly all deliveries of essential food and medical supplies. The resulting isolation has severely exacerbated hunger and pushed Gaza’s healthcare systems to the brink of collapse.
|UNICEF: Gaza Children Dying at Unprecedented Rate|
The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reported that between March and June, malnutrition among children under five has doubled, largely due to the blockade.
The World Health Organization (WHO) affirmed this, stating that nearly 20 percent of children under five in Gaza suffer from severe malnutrition.
“I call that a war crime.”
Anthony Aguilar told Al Jazeera about what he described as deadly and unprofessional practices he witnessed firsthand at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution sites in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/qH0MeHqMzA
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 2, 2025
WHO officials emphasized that the escalating death toll is largely due to deliberate barriers to aid and prolonged delays in humanitarian access.
International organizations continue to call for the immediate and unrestricted delivery of critical assistance to prevent further loss of life.
Furthermore, the director of Palestinian Medical Relief Society in Gaza described a dire health crisis gripping the territory in an interview with Al Jazeera, revealing that more than 17,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition, placing unprecedented pressure on an already strained medical infrastructure.
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10-year-old Abdulrahim Mohammed al-Jarabe’a, known as Amir, went missing after walking barefoot over 12 km to reach a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site. A viral video shows him kissing the hand of former U.S. Green Beret Anthony Aguilar after receiving a… pic.twitter.com/PxtHdoKms0
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) August 1, 2025
He noted that only small quantities of aid have reached Gaza, much of which has reportedly been intercepted or stolen by armed groups, further worsening an already precarious situation.
In addition to the child malnutrition crisis, the director highlighted a critical shortage of essential medications, particularly for chronic conditions such as diabetes.
He added that many pregnant women are suffering from severe nutritional deficiencies, increasing the risk of complications and undermining maternal health outcomes.
These alarming statistics and worsening conditions underscore the urgent need for sustained humanitarian access and international intervention to prevent a further collapse of public health in Gaza.
Israel has now killed at least 60,332 Palestinians, including more than 18,500 children and 10,199 women, and wounded 147,643 others, largely children, women and elderly, in the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023. The numbers are incomplete due to massive destruction, constant bombing and siege.
