{"id":446190,"date":"2025-08-03T09:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=446190"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:50:30","slug":"israel-kills-aid-worker-in-gaza-amid-rising-starvation-deaths-us-envoy-meets-with-hostages-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/israel-kills-aid-worker-in-gaza-amid-rising-starvation-deaths-us-envoy-meets-with-hostages-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel kills aid worker in Gaza amid rising starvation deaths, US envoy meets with hostages\u2019 families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEIR AL-BALAH, (SONNA) \u2014 Israeli forces opened fire near two aid distribution sites run by the Israeli-backed <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Gaza<\/span>\u00a0Humanitarian Foundation as crowds of hungry Palestinians again sought food, killing at least 10 people, witnesses and health workers said Saturday. The violence came a day after U.S. officials visited a GHF site and the U.S. ambassador called the troubled system\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u201can incredible feat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another 19 people were shot dead as they crowded near the Zikim crossing from Israel in the hope of obtaining aid, said Fares Awad, head of the Gaza health ministry\u2019s ambulance and emergency service.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a week has passed since Israel, under international pressure amid growing\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">scenes of starving children<\/span>, announced limited humanitarian pauses and airdrops meant to get more food to Gaza\u2019s over 2 million people. They now\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">largely rely on aid<\/span> after almost 22 months of war.<\/p>\n<p>But the United Nations, partners and Palestinians say\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">far too little aid is coming in<\/span>, with months of supplies piled up outside Gaza waiting for Israeli approval. Trucks that enter are mostly stripped of supplies by desperate people and criminal groups before reaching warehouses for distribution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"HTMLModuleEnhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"HTMLModuleEnhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"HTMLModuleEnhancement-embed\">\n<div class=\"HtmlModule\" data-module-tracksubscribe=\"\" data-gtm-topic=\"No Value\" data-module-number=\"3\" data-main-module-number=\"3\">\n<p class=\"embed-caption\">Experts this week said a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u201cworst-case scenario of famine\u201d<\/span> was occurring. On Saturday, Gaza\u2019s health ministry said seven Palestinians had died of malnutrition-related causes over the past 24 hours, including a child.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: AP, Agencies<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEIR AL-BALAH, (SONNA) \u2014 Israeli forces opened fire near two aid distribution sites run by the Israeli-backed Gaza\u00a0Humanitarian Foundation as crowds of hungry Palestinians again sought food, killing at least 10 people, witnesses and health workers said Saturday. The violence came a day after U.S. officials visited a GHF site and the U.S. ambassador called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":446191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-446190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446194,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446190\/revisions\/446194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}