Israeli military sources, including the public broadcaster Kan, have admitted that more than 1,000 aid truckloads filled with essential food, medicine, and relief parcels destined for Gaza were deliberately destroyed after remaining stranded for weeks at border crossings, worsening an already catastrophic famine across the enclave. The aid, left to spoil under the sun due to alleged bureaucratic failure in Gaza’s distribution framework, was incinerated by forces citing expired contents and logistical breakdown even as Gaza’s humanitarian collapse accelerated under a tight blockade imposed since March and only temporarily eased in May.
Meanwhile, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since May while seeking aid, 766 deaths at sites run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and hundreds more near UN convoys, according to UN human rights data. Gaza’s Ministry of Health reports a severe spike in hunger-related fatalities with 101 deaths recorded in recent days, 80 of them children, while nearly 100,000 women and children remain acutely malnourished, hospitals overflow with skeletal patients, and even UN aid workers faint from hunger amidst the collapse of the humanitarian system.
International condemnation has surged, human rights groups accuse Israel of weaponizing starvation and violating international law, UN officials call the crisis a moral catastrophe, demanding immediate lifting of restrictions and restoration of UN-led humanitarian access to avert full-scale famine and mass mortality across the Gaza Strip.
