In an urgent letter to the Security Council in regards to the declaration of famine in Gaza, the State of Palestine affirmed on Saturday:
Saturday August 23rd marks day 687 of Israel’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinian men, women and children in the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip. A day after the official declaration of famine by the United Nations, Israel continues to block food, fuel, medical supplies and other necessities from entering the besieged and imprisoned Gaza Strip. At the same time, Israeli forces have launched a ground assault in eastern Gaza City, destroying over 500 homes over the past week in a systematic, block-by-block operation in which they plant explosives and destroy the homes a block at a time.
In this way, the Israeli military is continuing to carry out its stated agenda of flattening Gaza’s neighborhoods, towns and cities, as they previously did in Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, as well as in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
On Saturday, day 687, of the genocide, Israeli forces have killed 70 Palestinians since dawn. This includes 22 aid seekers, killed by Israeli soldiers and US mercenaries while trying to obtain food for their families. In addition, 8 Palestinians died of starvation over the past 24 hours.
Israeli forces killed Palestine TV cameraman, Khaled Al-Madhoun, targeting him for assassination on Saturday, after a week of publishing false claims about Khaled – similar to those made against journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who Israel targeted for assassination last week due to his well-researched and well-documented journalism.
The media coalition in Gaza said that Al-Madhoun gave his life carrying his camera as a witness to the truth and a transmitter of the suffering of his people, to confirm that the voice of the Palestinian media will not be broken, and that the word and image will remain on the first front line in defense of truth and freedom.
Also on Saturday, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that more than 15,600 people in Gaza, including 3,800 children, are in urgent need of medical evacuation to receive special care.
Ghebreyesus touched on the situation in the Gaza Strip, which is being subjected to an ongoing Israeli war of extermination and starvation.
He called for facilitating the delivery of aid in order to save lives and provide life-saving care, renewing his call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched an aggression on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of 62,622 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 157,673 others, in an incomplete toll, as a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews are unable to reach them.
The scene at the so-called ‘aid sites’ run by US corporation ‘GHF’: 
Among those killed yesterday was the little girl Malak Raed Al-Turkmani:
Another little girl killed yesterday was Fatima Abu Daqqa, who Israel killed her along with her grandmother. In this video, she asks that if she is killed, she wants this video to be shared, with her singing the song “Those We Love Have Gone.” Fatima was only 7:
The following attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians were documented by local sources on Saturday:
11 pm:
A number of citizens were injured, Saturday evening, in a bombing by the Israeli occupation forces on Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the bombing targeted a tent for displaced people in the Al-Saraya area in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of the city, and around the Al-Ghafri Junction on Al-Jalaa Street.
9 pm:
A child was killed this Saturday evening in an Israeli occupation aircraft bombing of Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the bombing targeted a building on Al-Thalathini Street in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of the city, killing a child.
7 pm:
Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli occupation bombing of the northern Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the occupation artillery targeted homes in Jabalia al-Nazla, north of the Gaza Strip, leading to the killing of three citizens, whose bodies were transferred to Sheikh Radwan’s clinic.
5:30 pm:
Two young brothers were killed Saturday evening, after the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a group of citizens near the Hamza Mosque in Jabalia al-Nazla, north of Gaza.
A number of citizens were also injured after Israeli artillery shelled the Sudanese area northwest of the Gaza Strip. Israeli artillery shelled the center and south of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation aircraft destroyed a house belonging to the Al-Qayed family in Abu Sharia Square in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
12:30 pm:
Two Palestinians were reported wounded in an Israeli drone strike that bombed the roof of a residential building in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip.
11 am:
Nine citizens were killed and others were injured, today, Saturday, in the occupation’s bombing of a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in the central Gaza Strip, a displaced persons tent in Khan Yunis in the south, and targeting those waiting for aid in northern Gaza.
Local sources reported that an Israeli occupation drone targeted a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, killing one citizen and wounding others.
In addition, a drone opened fire on a displaced persons tent in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, killing two female citizens and wounding 14 other citizens.
Ambulance and emergency teams indicated that 6 citizens were killed and others waiting for aid were injured by Israeli occupation army fire in the northern Gaza Strip.
10:30 am:
Israeli occupation forces targeted the house of the Abu Jiab family in the northwest camp of Deir al-Balah.
10 am:
Israeli occupation forces carried out an airstrike targeting the Qaffa family’s house, west of Al-Bi’a Street in Deir al-Balah.
9 am:
Six Palestinians killed while trying to obtain much-need food aid for their starving families. Their bodies were brought to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis. Among them are:
1. Amir Raafat Hosni Abu Taha “Moraj”
2. Yasser Abdel Hadi Hamdan Abu Labda “Al-Balad”
3. Atta Abdel Raouf Atta Ayyoush “affected”
4. Raed Nabil Abdel Fattah Al-Shouli “Moraj”
and two others whose identities are unknown from the aid area.
Several Palestinians were injured after the Israeli occupation forces targeted civilians waiting for aid in northern Gaza.
8:30 am:
19 citizens were killed and others were injured, at dawn today, Saturday, in the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the tents of the displaced in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and a house in Al-Maghazi camp in the center of the Strip.
Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation artillery bombed the tents of the displaced in the Asdaa area, northwest of the city of Khan Yunis, killing 17 citizens, including 6 children and an infant, and wounding others.
She added that an Israeli occupation drone bombed a house in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing two citizens and wounding others.
Al-Awda Hospital said that a number of citizens were injured when occupation army drones targeted a residential apartment in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, adding that it received two killed and 26 injuries during the past 24 hours after the occupation bombed citizens’ gatherings at the aid distribution point south of Wadi Gaza, and 9 injuries were transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital to complete treatment.
6 am:
Since the early morning hours, Jabalia al-Balad and al-Nazla, north of the Gaza Strip, have been witnessing a continuous aggression, with the Israeli occupation launching violent, relentless airstrikes, coupled with intense artillery shelling targeting residential neighborhoods.
At the same time, the Israeli occupation’s drones continue to fire indiscriminately and heavily at civilian homes, transforming the area into an open field of killing and destruction.
The occupation army is preventing ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching the victims and retrieving the bodies of the killed from the roads and streets, leaving the wounded to bleed amidst the massive destruction.
The following video, recorded in Dir al-Balah, in northern Gaza on Thursday, shows the Israeli tactic of bombing crowded tent camps filled with displaced civilians. In this video, bodies can be seen flying high into the air when the bomb hits the camp (video by Mohammed Smiry):
According to Gaza Now:
The Israeli soldier who ran over a Palestinian woman and her three children under a tank in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, was killed.
The Israeli soldier who ran over a Palestinian woman and her three children under the tracks of an Israeli tank was killed following a direct attack by the Palestinian resistance in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.
The resistance detonated the tank while he was inside, severely wounding him. He was taken to the hospital, but later died of his injuries.
Since the beginning of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, 899 Israeli officers and soldiers have been killed, including 455 in the ground operation in Gaza.
167 officers and soldiers are currently receiving treatment for injuries sustained in the Gaza battles, including 165 moderately or seriously wounded.
6,210 officers and soldiers have been wounded since the beginning of the war, 925 of them seriously wounded.
