Overview
- Gaza’s Health Ministry reports 227 starvation-related deaths since the conflict began, including over 100 children, with five additional fatalities in the past 24 hours.
- The World Health Organization said medical supplies are arriving at too low a pace and urged Israel to authorize prepositioning before its planned Gaza City operation.
- Israeli security bodies, led by COGAT and the IDF, challenged Gaza’s malnutrition death counts and cited cases where individuals had serious preexisting health conditions.
- AFP debunked a viral photograph of a supposed 17-year-old starvation victim by identifying the image as a treatment photo of seven-year-old May Abu Arar.
- Hostilities and deadly incidents at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centers have further obstructed aid delivery and killed dozens of aid seekers since May.