Another 154 Killed in Gaza by Hunger and Israeli Attacks

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are reporting seven new deaths due to “famine and malnutrition” as Israel continues its starvation campaign against the Palestinian territory. Gaza’s hunger-related death toll is now at 154, with at least 89 children among the dead.

Palestinian officials say Israel allowed just 109 aid trucks to cross into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday- with most of them looted amid escalating security chaos. The U.N. says 500 to 600 truckloads of aid are needed each day to meet the basic needs of Gaza’s more than 2 million residents.

On Tuesday, displaced Palestinian mother Jihan al-Quraan was forced to collect scattered pasta from the dirt for her seven family members to eat, after she returned from a soup kitchen in Nuseirat Tuesday empty-handed.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces are continuing deadly attacks on Palestinians, with at least 21 people killed since dawn, 13 of them while seeking aid.