Deir Al-Bala, Gaza Strip- More than 100 charities and human rights said on Wednesday that the Israeli blockade and the continuous military attack are pushing the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip towards hunger, as Israeli strikes killed 29 other people overnight, according to local health officials.
Meanwhile, the Central Envoy in the Trump administration, Steve Whitchov, was scheduled to meet with a senior Israeli official on the ceasefire talks, a sign that the lowest level negotiations have lasted for weeks that could approach a penetration.
Experts say Gaza is at risk of famine due to the siege of Israel and the attack that was launched in response to the attack on October 7, 2023. The head of the World Health Organization said that Gaza “is witnessing a deadly boom” in malnutrition and relevant diseases, and that a “large percentage” of about two million people are starving.
Israel says it allows sufficient assistance in the efforts to deliver lands and errors by United Nations agencies, which they say hindered by Israeli restrictions and the collapse of security.
Hamas said that it would issue only 50 hostages remain, and it is believed that about 20 of them are alive, in exchange for a permanent ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal. Israel pledged to recover all prisoners and continue the war until Hamas was defeated or disarmed.
“Chaos, hunger and death”
In an open speech, 115 organizations, including major international relief groups such as doctors without borders, and the mercy and rescue of children, said they were watching their colleagues, as well as the Palestinians who serve “lost”.
The message blamed the Israeli restrictions and “massacres” at the first aid distribution points. Witnesses, health officials and the United Nations Human Rights Office say that the Israeli forces have repeatedly fired crowds seeking aid, killing more than 1,000 people. Israel says its forces only fired warning footage and that the number of deaths is exaggerated.
The letter said that “the restrictions of the Israeli government, the delay, and the fragmentation under its complete siege have created chaos, hunger and death.”
The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that criticism, and reported that the acute malnutrition centers in Gaza are full of patients and lack adequate supplies. He said that acute malnutrition rates exceed 10 % and that among pregnant women and breastfeeding women, more than 20 % of malnutrition, often severe.
The representative of the United Nations Health Agency in the occupied Palestinian territories, Dr. Rick Biberkorn, said that there are more than 30,000 children under the age of 5 years with severe malnutrition in Gaza and that the World Health Organization has reports that at least 21 children who are less than 5 years have died so far this year.
The displaced Palestinians are waiting for the donor food in a community kitchen in Gaza City, north of Gaza, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
(AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israel says critics “repeat enthusiasm” propaganda “
The Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected criticism in the open letter and accused the “Echo of Hamas propaganda” groups. He said that it allowed about 4,500 trucks auxiliary in Gaza since the full siege was lifted in May, and that more than 700 trucks are waiting for capturing and distributed by the United Nations
This average about 70 trucks per day, the lowest rate of war and much less than 500 to 600 trucks per day that the United Nations says is necessary, which entered a six -week hiatus earlier this year.
The United Nations says it is struggling to provide assistance inside Gaza due to Israeli military restrictions, continuous fighting and the collapse of law and order. An alternative regime created by Israel and an American contractor with violence and controversy.
Senior Advisors of Netanyahu will meet us with an envoy in Rome
White House journalist Caroline Levitte said that Witkeov went to Europe to meet the main leaders from the Middle East to discuss the latest suggestion of shooting and release of hostages.
“We want this ceasefire to happen as soon as possible, and we want to release these hostages,” Levitte said.
An official familiar with the negotiations said that Ron Dimer, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was traveling to Rome to meet and Takouf on Thursday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to discuss sensitive negotiations.
It is expected that the advanced deal will include the ceasefire for 60 days, as Hamas will launch 10 live hostages and the remains of 18 others in the stages of the Palestinians who were imprisoned by Israel. The relief supplies will be intensified, and the two sides will conduct negotiations on a permanent truce.
The strikes overnight kill at least 29
Israel has continued to implement waves of daily air strikes against what it says they are hard targets, but it often kills women and children. Israel blames civil deaths on Hamas because the militants work in the densely populated areas.
One of the night strikes hit a house in Gaza City, killing at least 12 people, according to the Shiva Hospital, which received losses. The dead included six children and a woman, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. The Israeli army said it hit an Islamic militant, and that the incident was under review due to reports of civil losses.
Sheva said another strike late on Tuesday in Gaza City was killed three children.
Calm on an apartment in northern Gaza, at least six people were killed. The ministry said that among the dead were three children and a woman, including one of the pregnant women. The army said it struck Hamas.
In the center of Gaza, a strike was killed in a thick part of the Nusiirat camp for the integrated refugees, and the wounded of 57, according to AWDA Hospital, which received the losses.
The militants, led by Hamas, kidnapped 251 people in the attack on October 7 and killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians.
More than 59,000 Palestinians were killed during the war, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Its number does not distinguish between militants and civilians, but the ministry says that more than half of the dead are women and children. The United Nations and other international organizations see it as the most reliable source of data on victims.
Goldenberg mentioned from Tel Aviv, Israel. The Associated Press Michel Price, in Washington, contributed to this report.
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