On Wednesday, August 20th, day 684 of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, at least 94 people have been killed in the bombing of various parts of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli occupation forces. This includes 19 aid seekers, killed by Israeli soldiers and US mercenaries while trying to obtain food for their families. In addition, 3 Palestinians died of starvation over the past 24 hours. Medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced today, Wednesday, the starvation deaths of another 3 Palestinians.
Over the past six days of wholesale destruction of the al-Zaytoun neighborhood, Israel has displaced 90,000 people who had not previously been displaced.
The United Nations Human Rights Office confirmed that the Israeli occupation’s decision to take full control of Gaza City and forcibly displace its residents will lead to mass killings of civilians, the destruction of the infrastructure necessary for survival, and a repetition of the methods of warfare used in northern Gaza and Rafah.
The office indicated in a statement, “The escalation of military operations over the past few days on several sites in the east and south of Gaza City, especially in the Zeitoun neighborhood, forced hundreds of families to flee without a safe place to go, under difficult humanitarian conditions, while others remained stranded and completely cut off from food supplies, water and medicine.”
The statement continued that this mass displacement is a direct violation of international law, calling on the states parties to the Geneva Conventions to exert maximum pressure to immediately halt this operation, which threatens to cause an unprecedented, life-threatening humanitarian crisis and permanently eliminate the Palestinian presence in the largest urban areas in the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that the total number of victims of famine and malnutrition rose to 269, including 112 children.
It is noteworthy that the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip continues to worsen, in light of the siege and the shortage of food and medical supplies. Since March 2, 2025, the Israeli occupation authorities have closed all crossings with the Gaza Strip, preventing the entry of most food and medical aid, causing famine to spread within the Gaza Strip.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) had warned that malnutrition among children under the age of five had doubled between March and June, as a result of the continued blockade.
Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, confirmed that cases of malnutrition among children in Gaza have increased three times in a period of less than six months.
Lazzarini said that this is not the result of a natural disaster, but rather human starvation that can be prevented, noting that relief organizations have been prevented for 6 months from bringing supplies to Gaza, stressing the need to allow life-saving aid to pass through UNRWA and other humanitarian organizations.
He explained that the agency’s teams have conducted malnutrition tests on nearly 100,000 children under the age of five in Gaza since last March.
The following Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in Gaza were documented by local sources on Wednesday:
11:30 pm
An Israeli strike hit a car in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northern Gaza City.
Despite limited equipment and difficult access amid Israeli blockade, civil defense teams managed to extinguish a car fire caused by an Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment in Sheikh Radwan, northern Gaza City.
9:30 pm
A number of citizens were killed on Wednesday evening, and others were injured in the Israeli occupation aircraft’s bombing of a center housing displaced people in Gaza City.
A Wafa correspondent said that the occupation aircraft bombed the gate of Asmaa School, which houses displaced people in Al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City, killing 5 citizens and wounding others.
A mother and her child were killed when occupation aircraft bombed a group of citizens in the Zarqa area in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.
7:30 pm
A mother and her child were killed when Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a group of citizens in the Zarqa area in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City.
A Wafa news correspondent reported that a number of citizens were killed and others were injured in Israeli raids on the vicinity of Sheikh Radwan Market, north of Gaza City.
He said that medical and civil defense teams were able to recover 12 injuries as a result of the occupation targeting the first street near Sheikh Radwan Bridge, and are still working to transport a number of other martyrs and injured people.
12:00 pm
Israeli drones dropped boxes loaded with canisters containing gasoline, wired with fuses, over the tents of displaced families in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.
The occupation uses this method to ignite fires in the tents, causing severe harm to homeless civilians in a grave violation of international humanitarian law.
11:00 am
A Palestinian mother was killed alongside her child Saji, who was born after 10 years of waiting, in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Targeting of humanitarian workers:
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that over 500 humanitarian workers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the Israeli genocide began on October 7, 2023, according to UN reports.
These deaths occurred while they were performing their humanitarian duty to save civilians amid ongoing attacks and starvation.
The ministry considered the targeting of humanitarian workers a war crime and a violation of international law, emphasizing that Israel’s impunity fuels these repeated crimes. It called for urgent international action to protect civilians and aid workers through binding measures.
