Hospitals in Gaza reported the killing of greater than a dozen individuals, eight of them food-seekers, by Israeli fire on Saturday (August 2025) as Palestinians endured extreme dangers in their seek for meals amid airdrops and restrictions on overland support supply.
Near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution web site, Yahia Youssef, who had come to hunt support on Saturday (August 2025) morning, described a panicked scene now grimly acquainted. After serving to perform three individuals wounded by gunshots, he stated he regarded round and noticed many others mendacity on the bottom bleeding.
“It’s the same daily episode,” Mr. Youssef stated.
In response to questions on a number of eyewitness accounts of violence at the northernmost of the Israeli-backed American contractor’s 4 websites, the GHF media workplace stated “nothing (happened) at or near our sites”.
UN: Over 1,300 killed in Gaza whereas making an attempt to entry meals
“Worst-case scenario of famine”
The episode got here a day after U.S. officers visited one web site and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee referred to as GHF’s distribution “an incredible feat”. International outrage has mounted because the group’s efforts to ship support to hunger-stricken Gaza have been marred by violence and controversy.
Abeer Sobh and her kids carry water in plastic jerrycans after amassing it from a water truck in Gaza City, Thursday, July 24, 2025.
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“We weren’t close to them (the troops) and there was no threat,” Abed Salah, a person in his 30s who was among the many crowds near the GHF web site close to Netzarim hall, stated. “I escaped death miraculously.” The hazard going through support seekers in Gaza has compounded what worldwide starvation specialists this week referred to as a “worst-case scenario of famine” in the besieged enclave. Israel’s almost 22-month navy offensive towards Hamas has shattered safety in the territory of some 2 million Palestinians and made it almost not possible to ship meals safely to ravenous individuals.
Killing at support distribution websites
From May 27 to July 31, 859 individuals have been killed in the neighborhood of GHF websites, in response to a United Nations report printed Thursday. Hundreds extra have been killed alongside the routes of meals convoys.
Israel and GHF have stated they’ve solely fired warning pictures and that the toll has been exaggerated.
GHF says its armed contractors have solely used pepper spray or fired warning pictures to stop lethal crowding. Israel’s navy has stated it has solely fired warning pictures at individuals who strategy its forces, although on Friday stated it was working to make the routes beneath its management safer.
Health officers reported that Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed at least 18 Palestinians on Saturday (August 2, 2025), together with three whose our bodies have been transported from the neighborhood of a distribution web site to a central Gaza hospital together with 36 others who have been wounded.
Officials stated 10 of Saturday’s casualties have been killed by strikes in central and southern Gaza. Nasser Hospital stated it obtained the our bodies of 5 individuals killed in two separate strikes on tents sheltering displaced individuals. The useless embody two brothers and a relative, who have been killed when a strike hit their tent near a most important thoroughfare in Khan Younis.
The Gaza well being ministry’s ambulance and emergency service stated an Israeli strike hit a family home in an space between the cities of Zawaida and Deir al-Balah, killing two dad and mom and their three kids.
Another strike hit a tent near the gate of a closed jail the place the displaced have sheltered in Khan Younis, killing a mom and her daughter, they stated.
The hospital stated Israeli forces killed 5 different Palestinians who have been amongst crowds awaiting support close to the newly constructed Morag hall in Rafah and between Rafah and Khan Younis.
Israel’s navy didn’t instantly reply to questions in regards to the strikes or deaths close to the help websites.
Hostage households protest to finish warfare
Meanwhile in Tel Aviv, households of Israeli hostages protested and urged Israel’s authorities to push more durable for the discharge of their family members, together with these proven in footage launched by militant teams earlier this week.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s particular envoy Steve Witkoff joined them a day after visiting Gaza and every week after strolling away from ceasefire talks in Qatar, blaming Hamas’s intransigence and pledging to seek out different methods to free hostages and make Gaza protected.
Families of hostages protest, demanding the discharge from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, at the plaza referred to as the hostages sq. in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025.
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Of the 251 hostages who have been kidnapped when Hamas led an assault on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, round 20 are believed to be alive in Gaza. Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the second-largest militant group in Gaza, launched separate movies of particular person hostages this week, triggering outrage amongst hostage households and Israeli society.
Israeli media hasn’t broadcast the movies, calling them propaganda, however the family of 21-year-old Rom Braslavski allowed for the discharge of {a photograph} exhibiting him visibly emaciated in an unknown location.
After viewing the video, Tami Braslavski, his mom, blamed prime Israeli officers and demanded they meet along with her.
“They broke my child, I want him home now,” Braslavski told Ynet on Thursday. “Look at him: Thin, limp, crying. All his bones are out.” Hostage families and their supporters protesting in Tel Aviv called on Israel’s government to make a deal to end the war, imploring them to “cease this nightmare and convey them out of the tunnels”.
“Do the right thing and just do it now,” Lior Chorev ,the Hostages Family Forum’s Chief Strategy Officer stated.
Airdrops broaden regardless of restricted impression
To circumvent restrictions on support vans crossing overland into Gaza, extra nations joined the Jordan-led coalition orchestrating parcels being dropped from the skies.
Alongside Israel, a number of European nations introduced plans this week to affix airdrop efforts, although most acknowledge the technique is woefully inadequate.
“If there is political will to allow airdrops — which are highly costly, insufficient; inefficient, there should be similar political will to open the road crossings,” Philippe Lazzarini, the top of the U.N. company for Palestinian refugees, wrote on X on Saturday. “Let’s go back to what works; let us do our job.” The current warfare on Gaza started when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing round 1,200 individuals, largely civilians. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed greater than 60,000 Palestinians, in response to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between militants and civilians and operates beneath the Hamas authorities.
The U.N. and different worldwide organisations see it as essentially the most dependable supply of information on casualties.
