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topicnews · July 19, 2025

Death in the “environment” of GHF aid offices exceed 700 in six weeks: reports

Death in the “environment” of GHF aid offices exceed 700 in six weeks: reports

The Palestinian fatalities operated by the Gaza Humanitrian Foundation (GHF) surpassed near aids on Saturday, July 19, after at least 32 people tried to get food. In addition to the 674 people who died near GHF locations since the group supported by the United States and the Israeli group, their controversial aid operation began six weeks ago.

Death sacrifice near GHF locations Tops 700

According to reports from the Associated Press, a group of Palestinians gathered in the early morning on Saturday, before the location was open, about 2 miles from a GHF location in the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza. There, witnesses have said that the Israeli defense forces (IDF) fired warning shots before they opened the fire and shot people “indiscriminately”, as a witness described it.

Another witness said that more shootout took place after the opening of the site than people came to support help. “Is that food or death? Why? You don't talk to us, you just shoot us,” said Sanaa al-Jaberi.

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While GHF said there were no incidents on or near his locations on Saturday, the Israeli defense forces recognized that warning shots near another distribution location in the southern city of Rafah recognized. This incident occurred before the location opened. The IDF informed the BBC that it had fired the shots in a group of “suspects”, who approached troops and did not stop to do so when it was said.

The deaths on or near GHF locations have been an event a week since May 27th, when the group based in the USA took off the Israeli government to take control of Gaza's distribution of aids. This decision was made with the conviction of the international community and other aid organizations, including the United Nations.

Both the Israeli military and the GHF said that the Hamas prey or anchors are held by help for Palestinian civilians, although there were no evidence of supporting the claims.

GHF only recognized deaths near his locations once last Wednesday, July 16, when 20 people were killed, according to a rush. GHF accused the deaths of Hamas.

The medical staff said in a nearby hospital that the victims showed signs that they were crushed and suffocated due to the use of tear gas. While the GHF contested the use of “tear gas”, the organization said that pepper spray was used in a limited and controlled manner to prevent further damage.

The IDF admitted on June 30 that its armed forces had violated civilians to get help. At that time, the military said that it had given new instructions on the basis of “knowledge”.

In conversation with Reuters on Saturday, Mohammed al-Khalidi, who lived in Gaza, said that he was part of the group that turned to the site in Rafah.

“We thought they came out to organize us so that we could get help, suddenly (I) saw the jeeps from one side and the tanks from the other and began to shoot at us,” he said.

According to the BBC, Al-Khalidi added: “There were no shots that were supposed to scare us or organize us.

The UN Human Rights Office shared on Tuesday, July 15, that the deaths associated with the GHF began on the day on which the group began to distribute food in the region who was looking for the war. On July 13, the number of fatalities in the “environment” of the GHF locations at 674. With 32 deaths on Saturday, the number is now 706.

Correcting of a ban on international media

The humanitarian foundation in Gaza operates four sales offices in the enclave, which are all zones in Israel, which are cut off from independent monitors. This makes it difficult to check or confirm reports on what happened.

On Friday, July 18, the Unrwa boss Philippe Lazzarini Israel asked to increase his prohibition of international media.

“650 days of atrocities against civilians without international media,” Lazzarini wrote to X and added that more than 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed since the beginning of the war.

“Media Ban drives DIS information campaigns that question data and accounts from first-hand eyewitnesses and international humanitarian organizations,” he concluded.

Malnutrition, energy crisis grab the strip

Apart from the deaths on or near the GHF aid distributor, the Palestinians are also killed in air strikes over the Gaza Strip, while a number of children in the acute malnutrition region is exposed.

In a report that was published on Saturday by the Yemeni news agency Saba, Dr. Munir al-Barsh, General Director of the Gaza Ministry of Health, that 70,000 children suffer from severe malnutrition, and more than 250,000 are confronted with “advanced levels of food intake”.

It is a fact that Unrwas Lazzarini, who wrote on X at the beginning of this week, that every tenth children are malnourished in the agency's medical facilities.

These problems are further exacerbated by a fuel crisis, the Gaza strips, which affects everything from health services and emergency reaction to the collection of fixed waste.

“With every day on which people are adopted, people have less clean water and healthcare and more sewage flood floors,” wrote the UN office for coordinating humanitarian affairs on Friday.

Israel's ceasefire

For more than a week, the delegations from Israel and Hamas have been working with mediators from Qatar and Egypt on a 60-day coffin proposal, which was supported by the United States, although there were only a few signs of a potential breakthrough.

In the meantime, Israel is trying to maintain a separate ceasefire, which it approved with Syria early Saturday. However, the fights were continued between the Syrian supported Bedouin tribes and the druze, which Israel had previously started air strikes.