UNITED Nations chief Guterres says the aid Israel allowed into Gaza amounts to a “teaspoon”, says Israel continues to delay aid distribution.
More than 50 Palestinians were killed or remain missing after an Israeli air strike on a residential building in northern Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 29 children and elderly people who died in recent days in Gaza have been registered as “starvation-related deaths”, and thousands more are at risk of starving.
Meanwhile, Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reiterates that the limited humanitarian aid that has been allowed into the enclave so far falls far short of what’s needed to meet the needs of residents.
“This amount might only meaningfully help just a fraction of Gaza’s population,” he said.
Abu Azzoum explained that Palestinians have been gathering outside bakeries in hopes of getting some bread to feed their families. But these “bakeries can’t cover the entire population and cannot stop the spread of famine”, he said.
“People are collapsing because they are unable to get any sort of food,” he added.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,822 Palestinians and wounded 122,382, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
