![]() Aid groups say it has become nearly impossible to deliver humanitarian aid in Gaza because of the presence of the Israeli military. International organizations are acting helpless. The world is witnessing the brutal dehumanization of an entire people unfold in broad daylight, as thousands of starving Palestinians have been crowding daily along the Gaza beach, waving desperately for aid planes as they air-drop food far and deep into the sea. Gaza doctors have been warning that growing famine in Gaza is “turning children into skeletons.” Footage of bone-thin children vomiting animal food and then dying has shocked observers. Several hundred thousand Palestinians are believed to remain in northern Gaza despite Israeli orders to evacuate the area many have been reduced to eating animal fodder for survival. Nearly two million civilians have been displaced. Over seventy thousand people have been wounded. The Palestinian death toll has now surpassed thirty thousand, most of them women and children. Many Israelis have been advocating for starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israeli Telegram channels have celebrated the massacre of starving Palestinians, cheering the prospect of cannibalism. ![]() Using US-made drones, Israeli forces recorded the carnage from the air for fun. Meanwhile, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, hailed the soldiers who committed the massacre as “heroes,” pledging total support for Israeli troops in Gaza. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) chief described “another day from hell” in Gaza, while UN aid chief, Martin Griffiths, lamented the “life draining out of Gaza at terrifying speed.” Following the massacre, Colombian president Petro Gustavo has suspended arms purchases from Israel, saying: “The whole world should blockade Netanyahu.” The UN Security Council has convened an emergency meeting. Palestinian officials have described the carnage as a “cold-blooded massacre.” Palestinians have dubbed it the Flour Massacre - or perhaps more fittingly, the Red Flour Massacre, in reference to the bloodstained flour left scattered on the ground. The massacre is a war crime on top of a war crime, as Israel slaughtered Palestinian civilians whom it has been starving for months, and whose only crime was queuing up to receive flour for their families. A heartbroken mother was heard screaming through the crowds: “My girl is gone she’s been starving for seven days.” A woman at Kamal Adwan hospital was pleading with the world: “We are under siege. Many victims were brought to hospitals in donkey carts, as ambulances could not reach the scene to collect all the dead and wounded. Israeli tanks ran over dead and wounded bodies. Jadallah al-Shafei, the nursing director at al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, told Al Jazeera: “All injuries result from gunfire and artillery shells claims of a stampede are entirely fabricated.” ![]() ![]() Medical sources report that most victims were shot directly in the head, chest, or stomach. The death toll is expected to rise as most hospitals in Gaza have ceased operating, having run out of fuel, medicine, and blood.įootage shows Israeli soldiers firing indiscriminately at thousands of civilians who gathered at al-Nabulsi roundabout at al-Rasheed Street to receive flour from aid trucks. On Thursday at dawn, Israeli troops unleashed a barrage of gunfire on a crowd of starving Palestinians waiting for aid trucks in Gaza City, killing over one hundred people and wounding more than one thousand others. ![]()
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