The Israeli forces kill 4 help search engines near the city of Gaza, the hospital and witnesses say

The Israeli forces killed four aid seekers who traveled on Sunday through a military zone south of the city of Gaza, an area regularly used by Palestinians trying to reach a food distribution point, they said a hospital and witnesses.

Deaths are added to growing toll of murdered Palestinians While they are looking for food, as parts of the gaza strip are immersed in the famine and the military activity of Israel increases in northern Gaza before a planned offensive to confiscate its largest city.

TO The initiative not supported on Friday declared A famine in the city of Gaza and warned that it is likely to spread the fire or the end of humanitarian aid restrictions without high. Israel has played the evaluation, saying “there is no hunger in Gaza”.

Al-Awda Hospital and two eyewitnesses told The News that the four Palestinians were killed when the troops opened fire against a crowd that is directed to a place directed by the US contractor backed by Israelíes Gaza Humanitarian Foundationor GHF, in the Netzarim corridor area. It happened hundreds of meters (yards) away from the site, the eye witnesses said.

“The shot was indiscriminate,” said Mohamed Abed, father of two children from the Bureij refugee camp, adding that while many people fled to the ground after receiving a shot.

Abed and Aymed Sayyad, another helping search engine between the crowd, said the troops opened fire when a group near the crowd advanced towards a distribution site before its scheduled opening.

Sayyad said he and others helped two people who were injured by shots, one on the shoulder and on his leg.

The Israeli army and GHF did not immediately respond to comments requests. Since the GHF began operating almost three months ago, the UN says that hundreds of Palestinians have been shot dead by Israel’s defense forces and foreign military contractors in their help sites or near their help sites.

Deaths related to malnutrition

The four deaths are the last in areas where the UN convoys have been overwhelmed by the looters and desperate crowds, and where people have been shot dead while heading to the sites led by the GHF.

More than 2,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 13,500 injured while looking for help at the distribution points or throughout the convoy routes used by the United Nations and other help groups, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, directed by Hamas.

The Ministry said on Sunday that at least 62,686 Palestinians have been killed in the war, including disappeared persons now confirmed by a Judicial Committee of the Special Ministry.

He said that the number of deaths related to malnutrition increased from eight to 289 on Sunday. Deaths include a child, who has the death toll among children to 115 since the war between Israel and Hamas in 2023 began.

The Ministry of Health does not say how many of those killed have been combatants or civilians, but says that around half have been women and children. It is part of the government led by Hamas and is treated by medical professionals. The UN and independent experts consider it the most reliable source of war casualties. Israel disputes its figures but has not provided their own.

The integrated classification of the Food Security phase, the main world authority in food crises, said Friday that the famine is happening in the city of Gaza, home of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and could extend to the south until Deir Al-Balah and Khan Younis at the end of next month.

Help groups have long warned that war and months of Israeli restrictions in food and medical supplies entering Gaza are causing starvation. Israel has denied the existence of generalized hunger in Gaza, calling the reports of “lies” promoted by Hamas.

“Explosions without stopping”

In Jabaliya, the densely populated refugee camp north of the city of Gaza, the residents said they endured large explosions during the night. Days after the Israel army announced that it was intensifying its operations in the area and mobilizing tens of thousands of reservists to take the city, they said they lived with constant fear.

In the part of the city of Gaza, where he and his family have taken refuge since he was displaced from a neighborhood on the southern edge of the city, Ossama Matter said he had seen houses reduced to rubble and neighborhoods dragged beyond recognition.

“They want it as Rafah,” he said, referring to a city in southern Gaza previously destroyed in the war. “There have been explosions and attacks without stopping in recent days.”

While fleeing west of Jabaliya, Salim Dhaher’s school teacher said that he saw armed robots planting explosives when the troops advanced from the opposite direction. While preparing the stage for Israel’s impulse to seize the city, Dhaher said he was afraid to be part of a greater effort to force the Palestinians of the North.

The objective is clear, said: “Destroy everything on the ground and force the transfer.”

There has been little sign of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who evacuate south in front of Israel’s invasion of the city of Gaza, which Israel remains a strength of Hamas. Many are exhausted by repeated displacements and are not convinced that any area, including the so -called humanitarian areas, offers security.

The military operation could begin a few days in a region that threatens the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians, who are taking refuge on an area that Israel has invaded several times, but still believes that it houses a network of militant tunnels underground.

Militants led by Hamas kidnapped 251 people and killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the attack of October 7, 2023 who triggered the war. Most hostages have been released in ceasefire or other agreements, but 50 remain within Gaza, about 20 of them believing for Israel as living.