Gaza continues to bleed daily under the weight of genocide carried out by the Israeli occupation for nearly a year, marked by relentless killing, bombardment, and systematic starvation through siege — amid the international community’s failure to halt this unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
According to the daily report issued by Gaza’s Ministry of Health, hospitals in the besieged Strip received 87 bodies over the past 24 hours, including four recovered from under the rubble, alongside 409 wounded.
The ministry also noted that additional victims remain trapped under destroyed homes and in the streets, where ambulance and civil defence teams are unable to reach them due to ongoing bombardment.
Since the beginning of the assault on 7 October 2023, the toll has risen to 64,368 killed and 162,776 wounded. Between 18 March and 31 August alone, the tally reached 11,911 killed and 50,735 wounded — shocking figures that reflect the sheer scale of destruction and the indiscriminate nature of the attacks on civilians.
Aid convoys remain blocked. Over the past 24 hours, 31 more Palestinians were killed and 132 injured in direct strikes on aid seekers, raising the toll to 2,416 killed and more than 17,709 wounded in such incidents — evidence that starvation is not simply a by-product of the siege but a deliberate tool of killing, central to the occupation’s genocidal plan.
Alongside bombardment and direct killing, famine continues to claim more lives each day. Gaza’s hospitals documented five additional starvation deaths within the last 24 hours, three of them children, raising the total famine-related death toll since the war began to 387 — including 138 children. Since the famine was officially declared on 22 August, 109 deaths have been recorded, among them 23 children.
These figures reveal that the occupation does not stop at killing civilians through airstrikes and shelling but besieges them until death, by denying food and medicine.
International law is unequivocal: the deliberate killing of children, women, and civilians while preventing them from obtaining food constitutes a complete set of elements for the crime of genocide.
Yet despite daily crimes, the world remains silent in the face of one of the gravest humanitarian catastrophes of modern times — leaving an entire people trapped between death by bombs and death by hunger.
