On the 654th day of Israel’s ongoing genocide in the devastated, besieged, and impoverished Gaza Strip, Israeli missiles and shells killed and wounded dozens of Palestinians, including civilians seeking food. Border crossings remain tightly sealed, and the deliberate blockade of humanitarian aid has turned starvation into a weapon as devastating as aerial bombardment.
Local sources report a total of 56 Palestinians killed in Gaza on Monday, including at least 13 aid seekers. Israeli forces also bombed a water desalination plant in al-Rimal neighborhood, western Gaza, as Palestinians are starving and thirsting to death in record numbers due to the lack of any food and potable water since March.
It is worth noting that the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in the killing of at least 59,029 Palestinian citizens, most of whom are children and women, and the injury of 142,135 others, in a preliminary toll, as large numbers of victims remain under the rubble and on the streets, amid a complete inability of rescue and ambulance crews to reach them due to the direct and continuous targeting of the Palestinian civilian population.
In recent weeks, the main victims of Israeli attacks in Gaza have been starving people seeking food for their families, shot in the ‘Hunger Games’ style gladiator arenas established by the US corporation GHF, whose head, Johnnie Moore, is a Christian evangelical pastor who believes in ‘Christian Zionism’, an end-times cult whose aim is to rid Palestine of all Palestinians in order to bring on ‘Armageddon/Revelations/Rapture’ in a bizarre mis-interpretation of the Christian Bible.
To this end, the GHF company has set up 4 gladiator arenas (replacing a distribution network of over 400 aid distribution sites, which was established by the United Nations decades ago amidst the Israeli siege and starvation campaign of 2006), where starving Palestinians must go, waiting for hours in the blazing sun while US mercenaries and Israeli soldiers bark out orders in English and Hebrew (rarely in Arabic) and when the Palestinians do not comply immediately, they are shot and killed. Nearly 1,000 have been killed since May 27th, when the arenas were established by the Delaware-based (with shadowy funding sources and direct financial ties to Donald Trump) GHF Corporation.
Today, Monday July 21, 2025, Israeli forces killed 13 Palestinians trying to get aid from the GHF sites to feed their families.
According to medical sources in the Gaza Strip, the total number of people killed in the GHF ‘aid sites’ (gladiator arenas) has risen to 1,021, with more than 6,511 injured since the company set up shop in Gaza on May 27th, 2025.
Israeli forces killed eleven Palestinians and injured many others when Israeli occupation forces targeted people waiting for humanitarian aid near the Netzarim axis, south of Gaza City.
Twelve people were killed in a bombing of a tent in a camp of internally displaced refugees in al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City, on Monday evening. Separately, two internally displaced refugees were killed in the bombing of a tent in Al-Qadisiyah area, west of Khan Yunis, and a woman was killed by an Israeli sniper while inside her home in central Gaza.
The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre against Palestinian civilians after bombing displacement tents in Al-Shati Refugee Camp, west of Gaza City, killing twelve family members, including children:
Local sources reported that two citizens were killed and several others were injured when Israeli aircraft bombed a tent housing displaced persons in the Al-Qadisiyah area, west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip .
In the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, citizen Ibtisam Khaled Dawas was killed after being targeted by Israeli sniper bullets inside her home in the Bishara neighborhood .
Sources also reported that members of the Shaat family were killed and injured when their home near the Rafah garage in the center of Khan Yunis was targeted. Rescue crews are still facing severe difficulties in reaching the site due to the ongoing shelling.
A citizen was killed and others were injured on Monday in Israeli shelling of Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the bombing targeted a residential building south of the municipal park in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City.
Five Palestinians were killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City and the central Gaza Strip.
Raheel Mohammad Rasras, a 32-year-old woman, died at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis after suffering from severe malnutrition. Her weight dropped from 50 kg to just 25 kg due to hunger caused by Israel’s siege. pic.twitter.com/kzXGa79LDf
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) July 21, 2025
Medical sources announced the killing of two citizens and the injury of others when an Israeli drone bombed a gathering of citizens in the Al-Sahaba area of the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
The same sources added that two Palestinians were killed when the occupation targeted a transport vehicle in the Al-Baraka area, south of Deir al-Balah.
Another starving Palestinian waiting for aid was killed when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a gathering of citizens near an aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street, south of the Wadi Gaza area.
The leadership of the Palestinian National and Islamic Forces held a meeting on Monday to discuss the escalating crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, where killing, destruction, and starvation continue, leading to what it described as a “full-fledged humanitarian catastrophe.”
The meeting also discussed developments in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and the need to strengthen popular steadfastness and resistance.
Little Palestinian girl Rahaf Al-Balawi is collapsing due to the israeli-engineered famine in Gaza: she currently weighs just FIVE kilograms pic.twitter.com/vMHZEhq4Nm
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) July 21, 2025
In a statement issued following the meeting, the forces condemned the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, describing it as a systematic war of extermination, including killing, destruction, siege, and starvation, particularly targeting children, women, and civilians. They noted that nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed while attempting to obtain food aid through distribution centers run by the occupation forces [ed. note: the number has reached over 1,000 by the end of Monday], with American support and international silence.
Five Palestinians, including a woman, were killed and several others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces shelled a water desalination plant in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City on Monday afternoon. The shelling comes as part of the ongoing policy of targeting vital infrastructure and civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that ambulance crews transported the killed and the injured to the hospital, amidst extreme difficulties due to the widespread destruction and dangerous conditions on the ground.
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Medical sources said more than 20 have been killed, including five while awaiting humanitarian aid, and dozens were injured across the Gaza Strip.
The Shifa Hospital received the bodies of two Palestinians killed when Israeli forces shelled civilians gathering in the Netzarim corridor, south of Gaza City, in anticipation of aid deliveries.
Bombardment also struck the Safatawi area, north of Gaza City, killing one man, while another body was recovered from the Al-Zahra’ neighborhood and transferred to Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp.
These attacks continue to claim the lives of civilians attempting to access food and supplies, turning aid distribution points into fatal zones and deepening the humanitarian collapse across Gaza.
Breaking: Israel bombed a building housing the Modern Al-Jinan Kindergarten in central Gaza City. Most of the casualties are children from the kindergarten. pic.twitter.com/SUMYRWAKKx
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) July 21, 2025
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, medical sources at Nasser Medical Center reported at least one Palestinian killed and several others injured following Israeli shelling in the northern part of the city.
Five Palestinians from the same family were also killed when Israeli forces targeted a tent sheltering displaced civilians in Mawasi Khan Younis.
In Jabalia, in northern Gaza, an Israeli drone fired a missile at displaced civilians in Jabalia an-Nazla, injuring two and wounding several others.
Furthermore, rescue teams recovered the corpses of five Palestinians buried under the rubble of bombarded homes in the same area.
Additionally, the body of a Palestinian man, missing for several days, was delivered to Al-Awda Hospital following an Israeli attack targeting civilians awaiting humanitarian aid on Salahuddin Street, south of Wadi Gaza.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported 19 deaths from hunger in the past 24 hours alone. Among them was four-year-old Razan Abu Zaher, whose short life was marked by siege and warfare. Her death raises the number of children killed by famine to at least 70 since the genocide began.
The director of Medical Relief in Gaza said health centers are overwhelmed by a growing wave of malnourished patients, as famine grips the territory. Medical stocks have nearly run dry, with only minimal supplies and equipment remaining. Some hospitals face imminent shutdowns due to critical fuel shortages, pushing the healthcare system to the brink of collapse.
Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, described the conditions as catastrophic. He confirmed that hospitals across Gaza have completely shut down due to the depletion of food, medicine, and fuel.
Dr. Abu Salmiya called the environment in which medical teams operate “inhumane,” and expressed deep frustration at the international community, particularly Arab and Islamic nations, for abandoning Gaza in its darkest hour.
In a direct appeal, Abu Salmiya urged immediate action to open crossings and allow medical and humanitarian aid to enter, warning that Gaza is facing a systematic genocide, where bombardment, starvation, and siege converge in full view of the world without meaningful intervention.
On its part, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned Monday that hunger in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels. One in three people in Gaza reportedly go multiple days without eating.
The agency urged global actors to facilitate the urgent entry of food supplies, stressing that the blockade poses an escalating threat to civilian life, especially among children and women.
The WFP expressed alarm at attacks targeting aid-seekers, referencing a shooting incident on Sunday as a dangerous sign of the risks now surrounding food distribution inside Gaza.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated that the systematic starvation of civilians amounts to a war crime and must not be used as a weapon.
OCHA warned families across Gaza that face catastrophic levels of hunger, with children dying before receiving aid.
Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar ordered that the residency permit of Jonathan Whittall, head of the UN humanitarian office in the occupied Palestinian territories, not be renewed.
The move is widely seen as part of Israel’s broader crackdown on agencies documenting the humanitarian collapse due to the ongoing genocide.
On Sunday, Israeli forces killed 94 Palestinians near aid distribution points, bringing the total number of civilians killed while seeking aid since May 27, 2025, to 995. At least 6,011 others have been wounded and 45 remain missing.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) renewed its call Monday for Israel to lift the siege on Gaza.
UNRWA reported receiving desperate messages from both residents and its own staff. Food prices in the enclave have risen forty-fold, and UNRWA confirmed it has enough stored food near Gaza to sustain the population for over three months but has been prevented from delivering it.
“Lift the blockade,” UNRWA urged. “Ensure the safe and wide-scale entry of humanitarian aid.”
This appeal echoes growing alarm over famine conditions, where children continue to die and entire families suffer extreme malnutrition. Despite aid stockpiles just beyond the border, the blockade has weaponized access to food, prolonging a disaster that shows no signs of abating.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that since October 7, 2023, more than 900 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed while searching for food.
The overall death toll now exceeds 58,895, including more than 17,335 children, 10,213 women and 260 journalists, with more 140,980, largely children and women, injured. Thousands of victims remain trapped under rubble or in destroyed areas, unable to be reached on the streets, with ambulances unable to respond due to constant bombing and massive destruction.
