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Gaza: 875 people now confirmed dead trying to source food in recent weeks

Nearly 900 people have been killed in Gaza in recent weeks trying to fetch food, with most deaths linked to private aid hubs run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.

“As of 13 July, we have recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food; 674 of them were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites,” said Thameen Al-Kheetan, OHCHR spokesperson.

The remaining 201 victims were killed while seeking food “on the routes of aid convoys or near aid convoys” run by the UN or UN-partners still operating in the war-shattered enclave, Mr. Al-Kheetan told journalists in Geneva.

Killings linked to the controversial US and Israeli-backed aid hubs began shortly after they started operating in southern Gaza on 27 May, bypassing the UN and other established NGOs.

The latest deadly incident happened at around 9am on Monday 14 July, when reports indicated that the Israeli military shelled and fired towards Palestinians seeking food at the GHF site in As Shakoush area, northwestern Rafah.

According to OHCHR, two Palestinians were killed and at least nine others were injured. Some of the casualties were transported to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hospital in Rafah. On Saturday medics there received more than 130 patients, the “overwhelming majority” suffering from gunshot wounds and “all responsive individuals” reporting they were attempting to access food distribution sites.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, expressed deep concerns about the continuing killing of civilians trying to access food, while deadly malnutrition spreads among children.

“Our teams on the ground - UNRWA teams and other United Nations teams - have spoken to survivors of these killings, these starving children included, who were shot at while on their way to pick up very little food,” said Juliette Touma, UNRWA Director of Communications.

Speaking via video from Amman, Ms. Touma insisted that the near-total Israeli blockade of Gaza has led to babies dying of the effects of severe acute malnutrition.

“We've been banned from bringing in any humanitarian assistance into Gaza for more than four months now,” she said, before pointing to a “significant increase” in child malnutrition since the Israeli blockade began on 2 March.

Ms. Touma added: “We have 6,000 trucks waiting in places like Egypt, like Jordan; it’s from Jordan to the Gaza Strip it's a three-hour drive, right?”

In addition to food supplies, these UN trucks contain other vital if basic supplies including bars of soap. “Medicine and food are going to soon expire if we're not able to get those supplies to people in Gaza who need it most, among them one million children who are half of the population of the Gaza Strip,” Ms. Touma continued.

Meanwhile in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem, Palestinians continue to be killed in violence allegedly linked to Israeli settlers and security forces, UN agencies said.

According to OHCHR, two-year-old Laila Khatib was shot in the head by Israeli security forces on 25 January while she was inside her house in Ash-Shuhada village, in Jenin.

On 3 July, 61-year-old Walid Badir was shot and killed by Israeli security forces, reportedly while he was cycling back home from prayers, passing through the outskirts of the Nur Shams camp, the UN rights office continued, pointing to intensifying “killings, attacks and harassment of Palestinians in past weeks.

“This includes the demolition of hundreds of homes and forced mass displacement of Palestinians,” OHCHR’s Mr. Al-Kheetan noted, with some 30,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced since the launch of Israel’s operation “Iron Wall” in the north of the occupied West Bank earlier this year.

“We should recall that international law is very clear about this in terms of the obligations of the occupying power,” he said. “Bringing about a permanent demographic change inside the occupied territory may amount to a war crime and is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.”

“We continue to have a silent war that is surging, where heavy restrictions on movement continue, where poverty is increasing as people are cut off from their livelihoods and unemployment soars,” said UNRWA’s Ms. Touma.

With its current focus on the northern occupied West Bank, the Israeli military operation has impacted the refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams.

“It is causing the largest population displacement of the Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967,” Ms. Touma continued.

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STORY: Gaza And Occupied West Bank Update - OHCHR, UNRWA

TRT: 3’38”

SOURCE: UNTV CH

RESTRICTIONS: NONE

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

ASPECT RATIO: 16:9

DATELINE: 15 JULY 2025 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Speakers

  • Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson, OHCHR
  • Juliette Touma, Director of Communications, UNRWA, (from Amman)

SHOTLIST

  1. Exterior wide shot: Palais des Nations, flag alley.
  2. Wide, Press room podium, speakers and journalists.
  3. SOUNDBITE (English) – Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson, OHCHR: “As of 13 July, we have recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food; 674 of them were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites.”
  4. Medium-wide, podium speakers, TV screen showing speaker.
  5. SOUNDBITE (English) – Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson, OHCHR: “875 people killed while trying to get food, 674 of them killed in the vicinity of the GHF sites and the remaining 201 killed on the routes of aid convoys or near aid convoys. These aid convoys can be by the UN or other humanitarian organizations, but as you know, there are very few of them in the Gaza Strip, unfortunately.”
  6. Wide, podium, Press room, journalists.
  7. SOUNDBITE (English) – Juliette Touma, Director of Communications, UNRWA, (from Amman): “We have screened over 240,000 children against malnutrition; 10 per cent of those children screened - or one in 10 - have been diagnosed with malnutrition.”
  8. Medium, journalist.
  9. SOUNDBITE (English) – Juliette Touma, Director of Communications, UNRWA, (from Amman): “Our teams on the ground - UNRWA teams and other United Nations teams - have spoken to survivors of these killings, these starving children included, who were shot at while on their way to pick up very little food.”
  10. Medium, journalists.
  11. SOUNDBITE (English) – Juliette Touma, Director of Communications, UNRWA, (from Amman):We've been banned from bringing in any humanitarian assistance into Gaza for more than four months now. We have 6,000 trucks waiting in places like Egypt, like Jordan; it’s from Jordan to the Gaza Strip it's a three-hour drive, right?”
  12. Medium-wide, journalists.
  13. SOUNDBITE (English) – Juliette Touma, Director of Communications, UNRWA, (from Amman): “The trucks are loaded with humanitarian supplies, including food, but also hygiene supplies like bars of soap as a very simple example, like medicine. Medicine and food are going to soon expire if we're not able to get those supplies to people in Gaza who need it most among them one million children who are half of the population of the Gaza Strip.”
  14. Medium-wide, TV journalist with video camera.
  15. SOUNDBITE (English) – Juliette Touma, Director of Communications, UNRWA, (from Amman): “In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, we continue to have a silent war that is surging, where heavy restrictions on movement continue, where poverty is increasing as people are cut off from their livelihoods and unemployment soars.”
  16. Wide, Press room, journalists, TV journalists, cameras, control booths, UN logo reflected in glass partititions.
  17. SOUNDBITE (English) – Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson, OHCHR: “We should recall that international law is very clear about this in terms of the obligations of the occupying power. Bringing about a permanent demographic change inside the occupied territory may amount to a war crime and is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.”
  18. Wide, Press room, TV screens showing external speaker, journalists.
  19. SOUNDBITE (English) – Juliette Touma, Director of Communications, UNRWA, (from Amman): “This is mainly in the northern West Bank. It is impacting several refugee camps in the area and it is causing the largest population displacement of the Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967.”
  20. Medium, journalist leaning on seating.


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