Remains at the doors of the takayas... The aggression is targeting the outlets of life in Gaza.

Every night, mothers wait for the hours of darkness to pass, their silence broken only by the sounds of missiles that bombard the displaced without mercy, or the cries of starving children who find nothing but complaints to their mothers who are unable to feed them. The mothers spend the night hoping to knock on the door of a food center or a charitable hospice after sunrise. She goes with her frail body, fighting hunger with an empty vessel in the hope of returning with a full one, not knowing the fate that awaits her efforts. Will she find some food or will a missile surprise her, ending her life and leaving her children without food or even a mother to console them?!

In the Gaza Strip, even crumbs are no longer available to the starving besieged people. There is no way for them to survive, even with a few leftovers. At the gates of the crossings, trucks are piled up with tons of food that is almost rotting after months of the occupation preventing it from entering the Strip. As for inside, some difficult attempts remain through stored food distribution centers and charitable institutions that provide what they can to the hungry. However, this did not satisfy the sadism of the occupation, so it deliberately targeted these centers and institutions.

Since the Israeli occupation resumed its aggression on the Gaza Strip on March 18, warplanes have intensified their bombardment of food centers and charitable institutions, targeting even those returning with bags of flour. This has made the search for food a spiritual adventure, a choice between death by murder or starvation.

68 centers and hospices bombed

In a statement issued the day before yesterday, the Government Media Office said that the number of food distribution centers and shelters targeted by the Israeli occupation has risen to 68, as part of its systematic policy of starving civilians in the Gaza Strip.

The office explained in a press release that the Israeli occupation army bombed a food aid distribution warehouse in the Deir al-Balah area in central Gaza on Saturday, killing five citizens and injuring a large number of innocent civilians who had gathered to receive humanitarian aid amid the famine plaguing the Gaza Strip.

The office reported that the number of field kitchens targeted since the beginning of the genocidal war has reached 68 centers and shelters, including 39 food and aid distribution centers and 29 food shelters that provide daily meals to the needy and hungry.

The statement emphasized that the occupation's criminal behavior, by deliberately targeting relief and social welfare facilities, "confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that the occupation is using food as a weapon of war, in flagrant violation of all international laws, most notably the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit the targeting of humanitarian facilities and civilians under any circumstances."

The government media official added: “While we condemn these crimes in the strongest terms, and hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for these heinous crimes, we call on the international community, the United Nations, the Security Council, and all humanitarian and human rights organizations to take urgent, immediate, and effective action to halt these brutal massacres, provide protection to food distribution centers, open the crossings, and ensure the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid.”

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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) quoted displaced persons as saying that an Israeli drone attacked a tent for displaced persons inside the Al-Amal al-Awda camp in Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, coinciding with a large number of citizens queuing to receive food from the neighboring Al-Quloub al-Rahima hospice. The attack resulted in the deaths of seven citizens, including four residents of the tent: two brothers, the wife of one of them and his daughter, and three others queuing for food, including two children. Twenty-five others were injured, including the hospice owner, a number of its employees, and those queuing for food. The following morning, medical sources at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis announced the death of three of the injured from their wounds sustained in the bombing.

The center narrates the testimony of the owner of the hospice, Muhammad Juma Muhammad Yahya (40 years old), who said: “While we were preparing to distribute food to the displaced people who were queuing up to receive food, suddenly I heard the sound of two very strong explosions, and smoke and dust spread in the area. After that, I saw the hospice workers lying on the ground. I felt pain in my right foot, so I looked at the place of pain and saw my foot bleeding, and I realized that I had been injured. A large number of people were lying on the ground, including women and children.”

Juma continued: “A number of citizens were martyred, and others were injured, including residents of the tent, workers at the hospice, and those queuing for food. When I returned to the hospice, I found some damage, including damage to the water tanks, damage to the six cooking pots, and damage to the cooking utensils.”

Targeting hospices and food centers is part of a comprehensive plan to displace the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip. This plan targets every aspect of life there, transforming it into a place uninhabitable for its people. At the heart of this plan is the war of starvation, which involves closing crossings, preventing the entry of aid, and targeting everything that could help alleviate the effects of hunger on the Strip's population.

In turn, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs called for the rapid entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, as the situation "has now become horribly abnormal." Seven European countries also called on Israel to lift the blockade on the Strip and end the genocide in Gaza.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said in a statement last Friday that there has been a significant increase in Israeli attacks and the death toll in Gaza this week, adding that the intense Israeli attacks have exacerbated the already dire humanitarian situation and called for global action to prevent further casualties.

Turk said that hunger caused by the Israeli blockade is worsening, stressing that "this madness must be stopped."

He stressed that no time should be wasted discussing a US-backed alternative proposal for aid entry into Gaza, noting that the United Nations has a credible plan and 160,000 mobile platforms ready to enter the Palestinian territory now.

Regarding the position of the Israeli occupation and the United States, Turk said: "To those proposing an alternative means of distributing aid, let's not waste time. We already have a plan in this regard."

Turk also stated that the threats of massive attacks, the systematic destruction of entire buildings, the displacement of residents, and the denial of humanitarian aid all point to a push towards permanent demographic change in Gaza, which is contrary to international law and amounts to ethnic cleansing.