On Tuesday, Day 662 of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, relentless bombardment and a brutal starvation campaign continued to ravage the besieged Strip, killing at least 92, including 33 starving Palestinians who were shot to death while trying to seek aid.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched an aggression against the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 59,921 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 145,233 others, according to a preliminary toll. A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulance and rescue crews.
Gaza is facing a severe risk of famine as food consumption and nutrition indicators have reached their worst levels since the beginning of the current war, according to a warning issued by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification .
The alert highlights that two of the three famine thresholds have been exceeded in parts of the Gaza Strip, with the World Food Programme and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warning that time is running out to launch a comprehensive humanitarian response.
A joint press release issued by UN agencies stated that “the ongoing conflict, the collapse of basic services, and severe restrictions on the delivery and distribution of humanitarian aid imposed on the United Nations have led to catastrophic food security conditions for hundreds of thousands of people across the Gaza Strip.”
At Gaza’s aid distribution points, Palestinians describe chaos, shootings, and humiliation under Israeli and U.S. control.
Over 1,000 starved civilians have been killed while trying to reach food since the US corporation GHF took over aid distribution on May 27th, 2025. Survivors return with sand, covered flour, or in body bags.
Those who have gone to the ‘Hunger Games’ style arenas say, “Aid sites have become death traps, where the fastest may eat, and the rest fall to bullets or hunger.”
Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif documented the experience of starving Palestinians trying to obtain aid at the US corporate ‘aid’ sites
Anthony Aguilar, a former employee and whistleblower from the GHF corporation, told Democracy Now, “The sites have not only become death traps, they were designed as death traps. All four distribution locations were intentionally, deliberately constructed, planned, and built in the middle of an active combat zone. Some may argue, well, all of Gaza is a war zone. That may be true, but there are parts of Gaza that are direct or that are determined to be active operational combat zones where Israeli defense forces are operating. Those sites were built in the middle of those areas intentionally. It’s not by accident. That in and of itself: to designate humanitarian distribution sites to service an unarmed starving population, to build them deliberately in an active combat zone is a violation of the Geneva Convention protocols. It’s a violation of humanitarian law and, in my opinion, it’s a violation of humanity in general.”
The world’s leading hunger monitoring system on Tuesday issued a warning that the “worst-case scenario of famine” is unfolding in Gaza due to the Israel-imposed starvation and siege.
“Latest data indicates that famine thresholds have been reached for food consumption in most of the Gaza Strip and for acute malnutrition in Gaza City,” the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said in a new report.
According to the Gaza Government Media Office:
- 109 aid trucks entered Gaza today, but most were looted due to the security chaos deliberately maintained by the occupation.
- Six airdrops were carried out, but four landed in areas under Israeli military control or in neighborhoods previously designated for evacuation, putting civilians at risk of direct targeting and making these drops not only ineffective but dangerous for starving residents.
- We remind the world that Gaza urgently needs at least 600 aid and fuel trucks daily to meet the minimum requirements of vital sectors.
The Director of Communications at UNRWA stated: “Airdropping aid over Gaza creates media noise but has no real impact on the ground. Airdrops in Gaza are risky, while trucks are capable of delivering the aid effectively.”
The following attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians in Gaza were documented by local sources on Tuesday:
4:40 pm
A number of citizens were killed and others injured on Tuesday evening after the Israeli occupation forces targeted a number of people waiting for aid in Khan Younis and Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that four citizens were killed and dozens injured after the occupation targeted people waiting for aid south of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
At least three civilians were killed and several others injured as a result of artillery shelling and gunfire from Israeli forces targeting aid seekers in the Sudanese area north of Beit Lahia, northwest of the Gaza Strip.
1:07 pm
The Palestinian Hassan Hussein Azzam, along with his grandson Hassan (featured image above) and the child’s mother, were killed after Israeli occupation forces bombed their home in Gaza City’s Al-Zeitoun neighborhood earlier today.
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12:18 PM REPORT:
Medical sources in Gaza’s hospitals reported that the death toll has risen to 92 since dawn, in addition to dozens of injuries, due to ongoing Israeli bombing and live fire.
The sources added that among the slain Palestinians are 41 civilians who were shot while trying to secure humanitarian aid.
Four Palestinians were killed, and at least thirty wounded, when the army targeted Palestinians, awaiting humanitarian aid in the Salahuddin Street area, south of Gaza Valley in central Gaza.
Furthermore, at least one Palestinian was killed, and several others injured, in an Israeli bombing of an apartment in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza city.
Eight Palestinians were also killed, and many more wounded, when the army bombarded the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza city.
The Government Media Office warned that famine is spreading with ever-greater ferocity, even as new deaths mount under Israel’s deliberate denial of food to the trapped population.
These fatalities come despite a mere trickle of assistance reaching Gaza. Israel insists it has opened “humanitarian corridors” and allowed the UN to deliver food under a so-called “humanitarian truce” in three densely populated areas, but the volume remains woefully insufficient to halt the starving.
Dr. Mohamed Abu Salmiya, director of Gaza’s al-Shifa Medical Complex, has issued a stark warning that the humanitarian situation in the Strip has reached a critical juncture under a relentless campaign of starvation.
He described Gaza’s famine as having entered a perilous phase, with the scant food that has trickled in amounting to “a drop in the bucket” compared with the needs of over two million people.
Abu Salmiya said injured patients and those already ill are now suffering severe malnutrition that risks turning treatable wounds and diseases into fatalities.
He reported that the death toll attributed to starvation and malnutrition has climbed to 147, underscoring the deadly toll of prolonged food deprivation.
The director highlighted a critical shortage of infant formula and a decline in mothers’ ability to breastfeed, calling it a “real danger” for newborns and infants.
This is the American ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ —look, listen to the insanity of their bullets, then tell me they’re “aid workers” #GHF pic.twitter.com/MkW0wU9xiB
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) July 29, 2025
He painted a harrowing picture of Gaza’s children, many reduced to “walking skeletons” by prolonged hunger, warning that every neighborhood has now entered the stage of acute famine.
Abu Salmiya cautioned that unless urgent action is taken, the Strip will face a sharp rise in deaths and stressed that the long-term impact of malnutrition during key developmental years threatens an entire generation.
Tens of thousands of starving people crowd around an aid truck in southern Gaza. Hunger has ravaged their bodies, while Israel continues its policy of “engineered starvation” and promotes false narratives to deceive the world.
The death toll keeps rising. pic.twitter.com/H3qjcwyItT— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) July 29, 2025
The World Food Programme has sounded the alarm over Gaza’s deepening humanitarian catastrophe.
Acute malnutrition among children under five has surged fourfold, pushing tiny bodies to the brink as food supplies vanish under the ongoing genocide.
According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, sections of the Strip have already crossed two of the three famine thresholds—an unmistakable signal that mass starvation is unfolding.
WFP warns that time is rapidly slipping away to mount a full-scale, coordinated relief effort. Without an immediate surge in aid deliveries, countless lives—especially those of the youngest and most vulnerable—will be lost.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs stressed that aerial food drops cannot replace fully coordinated, on-the-ground relief efforts.
Also, United Nations humanitarian agencies report that despite sustained efforts, they have not been able to deliver the volumes of food, water, and medical supplies Gaza urgently requires. Ongoing access restrictions and security challenges have severely hampered operations on the ground.
UN assessments indicate that over one million women and girls in Gaza are now facing acute hunger. With basic services collapsing and remaining stocks dwindling, this demographic—already among the most vulnerable—is at heightened risk of malnutrition and starvation.
The agencies urge Israel to uphold its obligations under international law by protecting civilians in Gaza and guaranteeing unimpeded humanitarian corridors. Scaling up assistance without delay is essential to avert a widespread famine and save thousands of lives.
On Sunday, Jordanian and Emirati aircraft parachuted food aid into Gaza, marking the first airlifts in months. Israel, meanwhile, announced a limited daily “tactical pause” in its operations—running from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.—across al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah and parts of Gaza City to allow aid convoys to move along designated routes.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned today that fully opening all border crossings and delivering aid at scale is the only way to stop an escalating famine across Gaza.
Newborns in Gaza are at imminent risk of death as a result of the total absence of food, medicine, and essential healthcare services. pic.twitter.com/BMn1SEKKpj
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) July 29, 2025
UNRWA estimates that Gaza needs a minimum of 500 to 600 trucks loaded with food, medicine and basic supplies entering the Strip every day to meet its population’s urgent needs.
The agency renewed its call for a durable ceasefire in Gaza that would ease the suffering of those facing starvation and ensure an uninterrupted flow of essential goods.
UNRWA officials urged the authorities to allow thousands of aid trucks now waiting in Jordan and Egypt to cross into Gaza without further delay.
With over 10,000 staff on the ground, UNRWA says it has the capacity to distribute those supplies safely, equitably and with dignity once access is granted.
