On Sunday, day 653 of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Day 123 since Israel violated the mediated ceasefire agreement on March 18, medical sources in Gaza reported that at least Palestinian civilians have been killed, as Israeli forces carried out airstrikes and shelling across the Gaza Strip.
According to medical sources, the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 132 since dawn today, including 94 people waiting for humanitarian aid at the US-run ‘death traps’.
The death toll from hunger and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip has risen to 18 in the past 24 hours, a serious indicator of the worsening humanitarian catastrophe the population is experiencing as a result of the ongoing Israeli blockade and aggression on the Strip.
Medical sources reported that hospitals in Gaza are receiving hundreds of cases daily suffering from acute stress and serious symptoms resulting from starvation, including memory loss and severe energy loss, amid a near-total shortage of beds and medical supplies.
Sources indicated that the total number of deaths due to hunger has reached 86 people so far, including 76 children, most of them in the northern Gaza Strip, where some 17,000 children suffer from severe malnutrition. At least 800 children are currently suffering from severe and life-threatening malnutrition, and will die in the coming days unless aid is allowed to enter.
It’s worth noting that the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7, 2023, has so far resulted in the deaths of 58,895 civilians, the majority of whom are children and women, and the injury of 140,980 others, according to a preliminary toll. A number of victims remain buried under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulance and rescue crews.
94 of the civilians killed today were shot in the ‘gladiator arenas’ set up by the US-based Christian Zionist company GHF for Palestinians in desperate need of food.
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday that the death toll in what have become known as the “death traps” – aid distribution areas targeted by the Israeli occupation forces – has risen to 995 killed, 6,011 wounded, and 45 missing since May 27th .
The sources confirmed that all the victims were civilians who had attempted to access food aid, before the distribution sites were turned into killing fields and direct sniper fire by the occupying forces, in a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights principles .
995 Palestinians have been killed at these so-called ‘aid sites’, which opened at the end of May, when ‘GHF” began its operations, shutting down the existing 400 aid distribution sites (which were themselves insufficient), and replacing them with just 4 ‘Hunger Games’ style gladiator arenas of death, where Palestinians desperate for food are forced into a small area and then shot at by snipers while they fight over small bags of flour and food.
Earlier this month, 169 relief organizations demanded a halt to the US-Israeli aid distribution mechanism led by the foundation. This followed near-daily reports of civilians killed by Israeli fire while waiting for aid near its centers.
The organizations called for a return to the UN-led aid delivery mechanism in the Gaza Strip until last March, when the occupation imposed a blockade on the Strip. The mechanism gradually allowed aid into the Strip in late May, distributing it through local organizations and networks. GHF, under the leadership of the US, has refused to do so, exacerbating an already severe crisis of Israeli-induced malnutrition and starvation of the Gazan population.
The Israeli military committed numerous war crimes again on Sunday (details below), bombing and shelling the starved, besieged and unarmed civilian population of 2.3 million people imprisoned inside the Gaza death camp (Israel claims to be ‘targeting Hamas militants’, but the overwhelming majority of the nearly 60,000 documented killed over the past 652 days have been non-combatants, including nearly 17,000 children).
Intense Israeli shelling on several areas in the Gaza Strip began early in the morning Friday and continued through the afternoon and into the evening — as has been the case every day in Gaza since October 7, 2023 (apart from a five-day ceasefire in late November 2023, and a 51-day ceasefire from January 25th through March 18th, 2025).
The following attacks against Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military on Sunday, July 20, 2025, were documented by local sources:
10:24 pm
Two citizens were killed on Sunday evening by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fire north of Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces targeted people waiting for humanitarian aid north of Gaza City, killing two citizens and wounding others.
10:00 pm
18 Palestinians, mainly children and elderly, died of starvation over the past 24 hours.
The total number of deaths due to hunger has reached 86 people total, while 800 children are suffering from severe and life-threatening malnutrition.
The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex confirmed that medical teams have been working without food for more than 24 hours, warning of a potential escalation in the coming hours due to the lack of food and medical care. He said, “We are witnessing an organized genocide through starvation.”
UNRWA warned of a doubling of malnutrition rates among children under five, noting that it conducted nearly 74,000 tests between March and June, revealing thousands of cases of global acute malnutrition.
One of those who died of starvation today:
Hospitals are completely unable to meet healthcare needs, as the occupation continues to prevent the entry of food, medicine, and fuel. This threatens the complete collapse of the healthcare system.
3:30 pm
A civilian was killed this evening after being shot by an Israeli Quadcopter reconnaissance drone while he was at a gas station on Al-Hakr Street, south of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip.
1:30 pm
Medical sources reported that 58 aid recipients were killed by Israeli occupation forces.
Local sources reported that the occupation forces directly targeted citizens gathered near aid distribution areas in the Sudanese area, northwest of Gaza City, and north of Rafah, within the distribution points of the American-Israeli company “GHF”. The troops opened heavy fire on the unarmed crowd, killing 58 citizens whose only ‘crime’ was seeking food and water for their families to avoid starvation.
10:30 am
Twelve Palestinians were killed and others injured on Sunday as Israeli forces continued to target aid workers in various areas of the Gaza Strip.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that 10 Palestinian citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of the occupation forces’ shelling of people waiting for aid in the Sudanese area in the northern Gaza Strip.
He added that two other citizens were killed when the occupation forces bombed those waiting for aid near the Al-Shakoush aid center north of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources announced yesterday that the death toll from the “aid massacres” who arrived at hospitals had risen to 891, with more than 5,754 injured.
10:20 am
The Israeli occupation army (IOF) on Sunday warned of evacuating new areas in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, in preparation for expanding the scope of its war of extermination through a ground operation in the area.
An Israeli army spokesperson said in a post on the X platform: “All residents in the southwestern area of Deir al-Balah, in blocks 130, 132-134, 136-139, and 2351, including those inside the tents in the area, must evacuate immediately, heading south to the Mawasi area.”
The occupation army attached a map showing the areas it warned would be evacuated, including tents housing displaced people.
Since March, the occupation army has issued dozens of warnings in the north and south of the Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera reporter Tareq Azzom documents intense airstrikes on Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, following forced evacuation orders and tightened restrictions on Palestinians in so-called “safe areas,” escalating displacement and destruction in the region.
