Palestinians carry a woman that was wounded by Israeli fire, as others seek aid supplies that entered Gaza through Israel, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, August 1, 2025. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters] 

Israel kills 92 in Gaza amid rising starvation deaths

By Maziar Motamedi  AJ Published On 3 Aug 2025

Hamas’s armed wing said it would work with the Red Cross to get food and medicine to the Israeli captives it still holds in Gaza, but demanded that permanent humanitarian corridors be set up to deliver aid to Palestinians.

• Six more Palestinians have died of forced starvation and malnutrition in besieged Gaza, the Health Ministry says, bringing the total number to 175 people, including 93 children.
• Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 92 people so far today, including 56 aid seekers, medical sources tell Al Jazeera. And in occupied East Jerusalem, the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir draws condemnation from Palestinians and Jordan, which administers the holy site.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 60,839 people and wounded 149,588. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.

Israel’s starvation of Gaza ‘will be felt for generations’, UN right to food rapporteur says

Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, has told Al Jazeera that if Israel’s bombing of Gaza ended tomorrow, the effects of hunger there would still be felt for “generations”, which makes it all the more pressing to end the conflict and flood the Strip with aid as soon as possible.

“The UN is ready – the UN and other international organisations can flood into Gaza with the necessary aid to help people, but the effects and impact of starvation will be felt for generations,” he said.

“So not only will children be stunted in their mental and physical development, and not only will adults carry the impact of starvation their whole lives, there will be social trauma felt by the Palestinian people in Gaza and beyond that will last for generations.

“So it will take a huge amount of resources to ensure that the survivors of this starvation campaign will be able to live with dignity in the future.”

He said that peacekeepers should enter Gaza to ensure security for humanitarian workers.

“What needs to happen is unfettered entrance by humanitarian convoys,” he said.

“Because the Security Council is being blocked by the US veto, this gives the General Assembly the authority to call for peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys. And if this isn’t what peacekeepers are for, I don’t know what they are for.

“I mean, this is about preventing starvation and genocide.”