News Center – As the Israeli war on Gaza enters its 22nd month, the humanitarian crisis is deteriorating at an unprecedented pace, worsened by a continuing blockade that has triggered famine, claiming countless lives—especially among children.

On Tuesday morning, Israeli forces carried out two massacres in Khan Younis and Gaza City, killing nine civilians and injuring several others. Medical sources at Nasser Hospital said that the bodies of five people and several wounded others were taken to the hospital after an Israel’s attack targeted a tent in the Al-Majayda area in Khan Younis.

Meanwhile, the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City also announced the arrival of the bodies of four people and several wounded following an Israel’s strike on the “Al-Hosari family” home near Al-Farouk Mosque in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of the city. 

For nearly two years, Israeli forces have waged a genocidal war on Gaza, killing over 61,000 deaths—most of them women and children—and injuring more than 153,575.

Child malnutrition deaths rise

The number of children in Gaza who have died from malnutrition since October 2023 has surpassed 100, according to the Gazan health authorities, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said in an update on Tuesday.

More than a third of the population is not eating for days at a time, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

“Furthermore, acute malnutrition is spiking, with over 300,000 children at severe risk,” said OCHA. “However, supplies were offloaded directly from these trucks before reaching their destination, given the extreme desperation pervasive in Gaza today,”

OCHA stressed that people there “need a predictable lifeline – not a trickle of aid – so they do not feel they need to take desperate measures to survive.”

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) described the death toll surpassing 100 as a “tragic moment that shames the world’s conscience and demands an immediate, long-overdue response.”

WFP said that just to cover basic humanitarian food assistance needs, more than 62,000 metric tons are required to enter Gaza every month, and so far, humanitarians have not been permitted to bring in enough supplies to support the population.