Israel kills over 60,000 Palestinians in Gaza, starves 89 children to death

CAIRO – 30 July 2025: Israel is killing dozens of civilians every day in Gaza since the outbreak of the war in October 2023. On Tuesday, the enclave’s health ministry reported a staggering total of 60,034 fatalities, nearly half of whom are women and children.

During the ongoing aggression, Israel has severely damaged Gaza’s health facilities and vital infrastructure through unrelenting airstrikes, displaced the population multiple times and pushed the enclave toward imminent famine due to significant restrictions on aid deliveries including a three-month blockade.

The ministry also reported seven new deaths from malnutrition and starvation in the past 24 hours, raising the total to 154 fatalities, including 89 children.

Heart-wrenching images continue to emerge from Gaza, depicting grieving Palestinians as they embrace the bodies of their loved ones wrapped in white shrouds—an all-too-familiar sight in the war-battered enclave.

Families are forced to bid farewell to their children, and it is nearly impossible to find anyone in Gaza who has not lost a loved one.

Families bid farewell to their loved ones who were killed by Israel during the war in Gaza - WAFA

While Israel this week has initiated what it calls tactical pauses to facilitate humanitarian aid amid the looming famine and under pressure from the West, UN officials warn that these measures fall far short of the urgently-needed ceasefire and unrestricted aid deliveries to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.

“The entire population of over two million people in Gaza is severely food insecure,” the UNICEF said in a statement on Sunday.

“One out of every three people has not eaten for days, and 80 per cent of all reported deaths by starvation are children,” the agency added.

Meanwhile, Israel recently withdrew from ceasefire negotiations, prolonging the war and paving the way for more Palestinian victims.

The Israeli government, however, faces increasing pressure from its western allies to resume aid deliveries and reach a truce that could alleviate international concerns about the humanitarian crisis.

The war in Gaza has underlined the urgency of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Arab, Muslim and many other states including European ones have advocated a two-state solution as the only way toward lasting peace in the strongly-volatile Middle East.

France and Malta have announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state in September, giving a boost to a two-state solution.

Meanwhile UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated that his country would do the same unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire, revives the two-state solution, allows the UN to resume aid supplies, and halts West Bank annexations.