On Sunday, Day 667 of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israeli army continued its bombing and shelling of various parts of the devastated, starved, and besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least 70 Palestinians, including 37 who were awaiting humanitarian aid. Dozens more were wounded across the coastal enclave.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition has now reached 175, including 93 children, since October 2023. This includes six Palestinians who died at several hospitals in the coastal enclave.
Medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces targeted groups of civilians waiting to receive food aid, resulting in the deaths of 37 Palestinians in various areas, including at least seven in a southern area near Khan Yunis, where direct gunfire was directed near the Morag axis.
The sources added that the death toll is likely to rise due to the presence of critical injuries, given the near-total collapse of the health system, the ongoing blockade, and the ban on the entry of medical supplies.
The ministry added that, since Thursday, the Israeli army has killed more than 98 Palestinians, including 38 near aid distribution centers. Fifteen others were found under the rubble, and at least 1,079 were injured in the past 24 hours alone.
The UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) issued a statement Friday expressed its deep shock and outrage at the continued killing of emergency and humanitarian workers in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip.
The office said that the Israeli army targeted a facility belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society on August 3, resulting in the death of one employee and the injury of three others.
The statement pointed out that the total death toll to date has reached 49 killed from the Palestinian Red Crescent crews, and 136 killed from the civil defense personnel, who died while performing their humanitarian duties in extremely dangerous circumstances.
The Human Rights Office added that “these individuals continue to carry out life-saving efforts, fully aware that they are putting their lives at risk,” stressing the need for independent and comprehensive investigations into all incidents of targeting civilians, particularly relief and emergency workers .
The Office affirmed that deliberately targeting aid workers constitutes a war crime under international humanitarian law, calling for those responsible for these grave violations to be held accountable.
Also Sunday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that 96% of families in the Gaza Strip face water insecurity.
The UN office warned in a report issued Sunday of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, noting that the specter of famine is looming over the population, given the near-total collapse of the water and sanitation sectors.
He reported that 96% of families in Gaza face water insecurity, meaning they are unable to access safe and usable water sources.
The report also revealed that 90% of the population lacks access to drinking water, amid the destruction of infrastructure and the depletion of basic resources, increasing the likelihood of disease outbreaks and malnutrition.
In Gaza, amid a crippling Israeli blockade and severe shortages, desperate civilians are forced to collect spilled flour from the ground just to feed their starving families:
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched an aggression on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of at least 60,839 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 149,588 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 were documented by local sources on Sunday:
10:12 pm
A Palestinian woman was killed and others were injured on Sunday evening in Israeli shelling in the central Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the bombing targeted a house in Camp 2 in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip.
3:49 pm
Two citizens were killed and others injured on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike targeting humanitarian aid workers in the intelligence area, northwest of Gaza City.
Medical sources reported that the bombing resulted in deaths and injuries among aid crews and their companions, while attacks continue, even targeting relief efforts, amid a complete collapse of the humanitarian system in the Gaza Strip.
In a related context, citizen Raafat Hussein Al-Arja (34 years old), one of the workers at the Al-Tina Aid Center, northwest of Rafah, was killed as a result of a direct targeting of the center he supervised.
2:05 pm
Rescue teams recovered the bodies of 20 killed on Sunday afternoon, who were killed in Israeli shelling of the Shujaiya, al-Tuffah, and al-Zaytoun neighborhoods east of Gaza City.
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1:12 pm report:
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that one of its workers, Omar Mansour Esleem, was killed and three others injured after the Israeli army bombarded its headquarters in the western part of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Israeli forces also detonated and bulldozed several homes in the neighborhood north of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
Medical sources at Nasser Hospital confirmed that two Palestinians, Eid Bashir Masri and Ibrahim Faraj Masri, were killed and many others injured when the Israeli army fired shells at Faisal School, where displaced families were sheltering in the Japanese neighborhood, west of Khan Younis.
Three Palestinians, including a woman and a child, were killed and many others wounded after Israeli forces fired live rounds at them while they were awaiting aid in the at-Teena area, south of Khan Younis.
The Israeli army also carried out several airstrikes on the eastern part of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
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In Gaza City, two Palestinians, Abdullah al-Hoor and Yousef Ashour, were killed and many others injured when the army fired a missile at a home near a clinic in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest of the city.
Additionally, three Palestinians were killed and many wounded in Israeli bombing of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. The army also wired and detonated numerous homes in the eastern areas of the city.
A child searches for his grandparents under the rubble, crying: “I miss them… where are they? I can’t find my grandpa.”
Hammoud, a young boy, digs through the rubble looking for the dearest people to his heart, after losing them in the Israeli bombing. pic.twitter.com/jF5LlJpboa
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) August 2, 2025
Eight more Palestinians were killed and many others injured when Israeli forces fired barrages of live rounds at civilians seeking humanitarian aid in the Zikim area, in the northwestern part of the Gaza Strip.
Since the American-backed, so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (GHF) began aid distribution operations in late May 2025, the humanitarian landscape in Gaza has been marked by a staggering loss of life.
Over 1,422 Palestinian civilians have been killed near aid centers, with more than 10,067 wounded. Of these, 859 were killed near GHF-operated locations, while 514 died attempting to reach aid provided by United Nations and affiliated agencies.
🚨BREAKING: Israeli warplanes targeted a school sheltering displaced families in the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, leaving multiple civilians injured in the attack. pic.twitter.com/iVNVLHZWU7
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) August 2, 2025
June was especially deadly, with approximately 800 deaths directly linked to the pursuit of food aid.
Since Israel ended the mediated ceasefire 140 days ago, on March 18, 2025, its army has killed more than 9,246 Palestinians and injured at least 36,681.
Israel has now killed at least 60,430 people and wounded 148,722, largely children, women, and the elderly, since October 7, 2022. Thousands more remain missing, many buried under the rubble of bombarded homes, buildings, streets, and alleys across the destroyed coastal enclave.
