UN chief Antonio Guterres said that famine in Gaza is “the result of deliberate decisions that defy basic humanity”.
Also, there have been several more deadly Israeli military attacks in northern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.
One of them struck an area near a school in Jabalia an-Nazla, killing at least five people, the agency reported.
Another hit an apartment to the west of Gaza City, killing two more people and wounding others, the report said.
Meanwhile, in videos posted by locals on Instagram and verified by Al Jazeera, Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip can be seen trying to catch drops of water in cans from underneath a truck transporting water.
The water they collect has run down the side of containers, through wooden pallets and along the underside of the truck.
Other children are cooling themselves in the extreme heat, allowing drops of water to fall over them.
The entire Gaza Strip continues to suffer under Israel’s famine-inducing starvation policy with severe shortages of food, water and medicine prevailing in all areas.
Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza City is levelling entire neighbourhoods, our correspondent on the ground reports, in an attempt to rid the city of its residents. Civil defence reports at least 1,500 homes have been destroyed.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health has recorded four starvation deaths over the past 24 hours, and at least 61 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave today alone, medical sources tell our team.
Israel has killed at least 62,966 people and wounded 159,266 in its war on Gaza. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
