Gaza: On April 24, 2025, Israel maintained an eight-week blockade on food, medicine and humanitarian supplies destined for Gaza while unleashing a fresh wave of aerial strikes that killed at least 13 people, many of them women and children—measures the United Nations has described as the war’s “worst humanitarian crisis.”
The most recent attacks struck overnight into early Thursday morning across central and northern Gaza, with three children dying under a tent near Nuseirat and a woman plus four children killed in a home in Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera field correspondents and on-the-scene images captured by Reuters photographer Dawoud Abu Alkas.
Additional reports confirm that veteran Palestinian journalist Saeed Abu Hassanein was among the dead, bringing the toll of slain reporters in Gaza to at least 232, as rescue teams—hampered by damaged or destroyed equipment—struggle to reach victims trapped under the rubble; video footage also shows Israeli tanks rolling through the flattened remains of the Shaboura refugee camp even as the Palestinian Authority’s communication centre decried the assault with cries of “no pause,” “no mercy” and “no humanity.”
These attacks and the continued aid embargo have compounded Gaza’s dire plight: the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns of a “deliberate dismantling of Palestinian life” and its worst crisis since the October 2023 escalation, Gaza’s Health Ministry highlights catastrophic malnutrition among women and children, and Israel’s defiance of a May 2024 International Court order to urgently facilitate aid deliveries risks pushing the enclave further toward starvation and societal collapse
