Desperate Struggle for Food in Gaza

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Barely any aid is entering the besieged Gaza Strip, as Palestinians continue to die from starvation.

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili went to the Zikim area in northern Gaza and sent us this report on the challenges Palestinians are facing.

Overnight Israeli strikes have killed nearly 50 Palestinians across Gaza.
A young girl screams as rescuers pull her from the rubble of her home in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza, destroyed in an Israeli airstrike that killed her entire family.
A paramedic describes surviving an Israeli attack while trying to save civilians, crawling through debris to rescue a child.
Bloodied streets bear witness to the night’s violence, with the wounded rushed to overwhelmed hospitals and the dead carried away.
Displaced Palestinians plead for global intervention: “Where can we go?” as Israeli strikes continue.
The daily quest to find food has also killed several others near the Netzarim military corridor.

Al Jazeera’s Um-e-Kulsoom Shariff reports.

Israeli settlers killed Palestinian man Thamin Khalil Reda Dawabsheh, 35, in the Palestinian village of Duma, near Nablus, after attacking locals.
According to the mayor, Israeli settlers first assaulted a 14-year-old Palestinian boy, prompting Palestinian men to intervene—before armed Israeli settlers opened fire.
The Israeli military later admitted the killer was an off-duty Israeli soldier accompanying “an Israeli civilian” near Duma “during engineering works.
Israeli settler violence, often filmed, has escalated, with perpetrators rarely facing consequences.
This mirrors past attacks, like the 2015 Israeli settler arson that killed a Palestinian family in Duma.
New Israeli settlers, encroaching on Palestinian land, operate with tacit Israeli government approval, entrenching displacement and violence.

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim joins us in the studio to discuss the latest developments.

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