On Friday August 1, 2025, Day 665 of the ongoing Israeli genocide against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their bombardment of Palestinian civilian neighborhoods and tent camps, and continued attacking starving Palestinians seeking food for their families at the US-controlled so-called ‘aid’ sites.
Update: Five Palestinians were killed and many wounded in an Israeli bombing of an apartment in Zawaida, in central Gaza.
Three Palestinians were also killed and many others injured when an Israeli drone fired a missile tents of displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Over the past 24 hours, 83 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces, and 554 wounded arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals as a result of the ongoing Israeli massacres and attacks .
Of those killed Friday, 53 were shot by Israeli snipers while seeking food at the ‘aid’ sites, with more than 400 injured, most of them killed in the ‘gladiator arenas’ of the US-based GHF Corporation.
The death toll from the Israeli occupation forces’ genocidal war and aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 60,332 killed and 147,643 wounded since October 7, 2023.
Medical sources reported on Friday that the death toll includes 9,163 killed and 35,602 injured since March 18, when the Israeli occupation resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip following the ceasefire agreement in late January.
The sources added that ambulance and civil defense crews are finding it difficult to reach the victims, as a large number of them are still under the rubble and debris, and on the roads .
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) announced on Friday that 1,373 Palestinians have been killed since May 27, as a result of Israeli occupation forces’ shooting at them while they were waiting for aid in the Gaza Strip .
A press release from the UNHCHR office in occupied Palestine indicated that “859 of them were killed in the vicinity of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, and 514 along food convoy routes,” adding that “most of these killings were committed by the Israeli army.”
The office added that over the course of two days, “between July 30 and 31, reports indicate that 105 Palestinians were killed and at least 680 injured along convoy routes in the northern Gaza Strip, the area south of Khan Yunis, and near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites in central Gaza and Rafah.”
The statement said, “The Israeli army’s shooting and shelling of Palestinians continued along the routes of food convoys and near the sites of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, despite the army’s announcement on July 27 that it would suspend its military operations for specific hours to improve the humanitarian response.”
The office announced that most of the victims “appeared to be young men and children,” stressing that “the victims did not pose any threat to Israeli forces or other individuals.”
Human Rights Watch has said that the Israeli killing of Palestinian aid seekers at the distribution sites of the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) amount to war crimes.
“The dire humanitarian situation is a direct result of Israel’s use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war – a war crime – as well as Israel’s continued intentional deprivation of aid and basic services, ongoing actions that amount to the crime against humanity of extermination, and acts of genocide,” read the report released Friday.
“Israeli forces are not only deliberately starving Palestinian civilians, but they are now gunning them down almost every day as they desperately seek food for their families,” said Belkis Wille, associate crisis and conflict director at HRW.
The following attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians in Gaza were documented by local sources on Friday:
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Eleven citizens were killed on Friday evening when the Israeli occupation forces targeted citizens waiting for aid.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that 11 people were killed and more than 50 injured in the organization’s Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City after Israeli forces targeted crowds of civilians waiting for aid trucks in the Nabulsi area in southwest Gaza.
Earlier, at least 15 civilians waiting for aid were killed near aid centers in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Journalist Anas Al Sharif reports that the Israeli army near Zikim area is using silencers to shoot at starved people waiting for aid trucks in northern Gaza.
The act coincides with today’s visit of US envoy Steve Witkoff to GHF sites in Gaza.
Infant “Watin Al-Nada” was born during the genocide after her father was killed in an Israeli bombardment. Today, she suffers from starvation and severe malnutrition, as the Israeli starvation, siege, and aggression continue.
Ahmed Samir Abdel Aal, a 1-year and 10-month-old child, died as a result of the starvation imposed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip. Gaza is witnessing a severe humanitarian catastrophe, with daily deaths caused by the starvation and genocide carried out by Israel.
Wafa news reported on Kawthar Barakat, 37, who now lives in a displacement camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Kawthar, eight months pregnant, is suffering from starvation and malnutrition, which has negatively impacted her health and that of her fetus.
Barakat says her health has deteriorated due to malnutrition, which has clearly affected her health and the fetus’s development. She spends her day searching for food, and when she finds it, she only eats one meal. This situation has had a profound psychological impact on her, making her extremely afraid of giving birth, especially since she might need a blood transfusion, given the complete destruction and lack of health services.
Kawthar is not an isolated case, but one of thousands of pregnant women in Gaza who experience pregnancy and childbirth under harsh conditions that combine blockade, displacement, malnutrition, and the collapse of the health system.
Ahmed Dalloul, a Palestinian father, was identified as one of those killed today by Israeli occupation forces in central Gaza, months after his young daughter Siwar was also killed in an earlier attack.
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Israeli forces killed at least twenty Palestinians across the devastated and starved Gaza Strip, including five who were seeking humanitarian aid. Dozens more were injured, many of them also in search of life-saving assistance.
Hospital sources in Gaza told Al-Jazeera that at least fifteen Palestinians were killed, including five searching for food, and dozens were wounded in multiple areas of the Strip.
The sources added that Israeli forces bombed tents sheltering displaced families in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing seven and inflicting numerous injuries.
Also in Khan Younis, two Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli bombing on the Al-Qarara town, north of the city.
In addition, three Palestinians were killed and more than thirty wounded, when the army fired barrages of live rounds at them near an aid distribution center in the Shakoush area, north of Rafah, in Gaza’s southmost part.
Al-Jazeera: “Shooting, killing, death’: Palestinian man describes GHF aid site turmoil”
In central Gaza, an airstrike targeted the city of Deir al-Balah, killing four Palestinians and injuring many others. In Gaza City, a missile strike hit a building in the Rimal neighborhood, while a separate attack near Sheikh Radwan Cemetery killed and wounded several individuals.
Meanwhile, the director of the children’s hospital at Nasser Medical Complex told Al Jazeera that incoming aid is largely symbolic and fails to reach those most in need.
He emphasized the critical shortage of infant formula and essential medical supplies, calling for all humanitarian aid to be directed to storerooms of internationally recognized organizations known for transparent distribution.
He reported a rise in admissions of children suffering from severe malnutrition, many without prior health conditions, and warned that chronically ill children are dying at alarmingly young ages due to Gaza’s collapsed healthcare system.
They walk for kilometers on empty stomachs in search of food. pic.twitter.com/GhDM6wm4e0
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) August 1, 2025
The United Nations Office for Human Rights has reported that at least 1,373 Palestinians have lost their lives while attempting to access food in Gaza since the establishment of the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Organization” on May 27. According to the office, Israeli forces continue to fire on civilians near aid distribution points, despite the worsening humanitarian conditions and the growing desperation among the population.
Al-Jazeera: “Palestinian mother describes violent struggle at GHF aid site”
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that one in every five children in Gaza City is suffering from malnutrition. The agency noted a steady rise in cases, attributing the surge to the ongoing Israeli blockade that continues to restrict access to vital food and medical supplies.
UNRWA stressed the escalating risk to children’s health and survival and urged urgent international action to deliver life-saving assistance to Gaza’s most vulnerable.
Amid the deepening crisis, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Ambassador Mike Huckabee visited aid distribution sites in Gaza, where starvation-related deaths continue to mount. Local medics reported the recent deaths of two infants and a young man due to hunger, driven by harsh restrictions on humanitarian access.
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), stated that urgent, innovative solutions must be found in Gaza—or more lives will be lost to hunger.
He added, “People—including children—continue to die of starvation and relentless bombardment across the Gaza Strip.”
Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares called on Israel to permanently open the border crossings to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. He stated that “Gaza is facing famine due to the Israeli blockade, and what is happening there is a disgrace to humanity.”
He emphasized that hunger continues to claim lives in Gaza every single day, urging an immediate ceasefire to facilitate the delivery of aid.
Albares also warned that over 100,000 children and 40,000 infants in Gaza are at risk of dying from starvation if the blockade persists.
Israel’s attacks persist despite calls from the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and directives from the International Court of Justice demanding measures to prevent genocide and relieve Gaza’s dire humanitarian emergency.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, deaths linked to starvation have reached 154, including 89 children. The ongoing genocide has claimed the lives of at least 60,249 Palestinians and left over 147,000 wounded. Thousands remain missing, trapped under rubble and unreachable by emergency teams due to relentless Israeli bombardment.
