By Countercurrents Collective
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Over 40 starving people were killed and dozens more injured on Sunday after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd seeking aid in northern Gaza, amid a months-long blockade that has left the enclave “on the verge of catastrophic hunger.”
Local and medical sources confirmed that 45 starving aid seekers were killed and more than 60 others injured while waiting for flour trucks to enter through the Zikim crossing.
Reports said the number is expected to rise.
Israeli forces targeted and killed the aid seekers as they were starving.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports that the number of aid seekers killed by the Israeli army over the last two months has risen to more than 900, with 6,000 others injured.
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Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 130 people have been killed and 495 wounded in the past 24 hours.
That brings the death toll since the start of Israel’s war to 58,895 with 140,980 people also wounded.
Israeli political analyst Gideon Levy has accused the government of planning ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
“Someone conceived it, there were discussions of pros and cons, alternatives were suggested, options of total cleansing vs. stages, and all done in air-conditioned conference rooms with minutes taken and decisions made,” Levy wrote in an opinion piece on Israeli media outlet Haaretz.
“For the first time since the war of revenge in Gaza began, it’s clear that Israel has a plan – and it’s a far-reaching one.
“This is no longer a rolling war. One can no longer accuse Benjamin Netanyahu of waging a war with no purpose. There is a purpose to this war, and it’s a criminal one. One can no longer tell army commanders that their troops are dying for no reason: They are dying in a war of ethnic cleansing.”
The article refers to the Israeli army’s plan to forcibly transfer Gaza’s entire population to a concentration zone in the south.
20 July 2025
Source: countercurrents.org