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Fadi Zain Al-Din and Tasnim Nassar. Published by Imemc News

Susan Haniya, 8 months old. Published by IMEMC News

Graphic: "93% of agricultural land in Gaza ...rendered unusable...". Published by IMEMC News

Graphic: Zeitoun, before and after. Published by IMEMC News

Kamel Isam Madi. Published by IMEMC News
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by IMEMC News
Aug 30, 2025

On Friday, Day 693 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli warplanes and artillery launched a series of attacks across the starved, besieged, and devastated Gaza Strip, killing at least 79 Palestinians across the Strip, most of them in Gaza City. 22 of those killed were shot to death by Israeli soldiers and US mercenaries at the 4 ‘aid’ sites run by the US corporation ‘GHF’.

Among those killed in today’s extensive bombardment was the couple pictured above. Just days after the engagement of Fadi Zain Al-Din and Tasnim Nassar, their dreams were shattered. Today, Tasnim and her family were killed when an Israeli strike destroyed their tent in Gaza City.

Medical sources announced the starvation deaths of 5, including two children, on Friday.

The total number of victims of starvation rose to 322, including 121 children, the vast majority of whom died of starvation in the past 3 months.

Since the famine classification in the Gaza Strip was announced by the IPC on August 22, 44 additional starvation deaths have been recorded, including 6 children.

An international classification of food insecurity, in which the United Nations participates, confirmed the occurrence of famine in Gaza Governorate and expected it to spread to Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis governorates by the end of September.

The Integrated Classification of Stages of Food Security said that more than half a million people in the Gaza Strip face catastrophic conditions, i.e. the fifth stage of the classification, and its characteristics include extreme hunger, death, destitution, and extremely critical levels of acute malnutrition.

The classification stated that another 1.07 million people (54% of the population) face the fourth stage, which is the stage of acute “emergency” food insecurity. 396,000 (20% of the population) face the third stage, which is the stage of acute food insecurity, the “crisis”.

The Integrated Classification of Stages of Food Security is a global initiative that includes United Nations agencies, regional partners and relief organizations, and food insecurity is classified into five stages, the most severe of which is famine, which ranks fifth.

Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Cindy McCain, said that food aid reaching the Gaza Strip is still insufficient to prevent the spread of hunger.

McCain added: “Additional amounts of food are coming in. We are moving in the right direction, but they are not enough to do what we need to do to ensure that the population does not suffer from malnutrition and starvation.”

She pointed out that the program is now capable of delivering about 100 aid trucks daily to Gaza, but this number is still much less than the 600 trucks that entered the Strip daily during the ceasefire before mid-March.

The Integrated Food Security Phased Classification, a global hunger monitoring observatory, said in a report issued on Friday that about 514,000 people, nearly a quarter of the Strip’s population, are currently facing famine conditions in Gaza City and its surrounding areas.

McCain, who visited Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis this week, said what she witnessed was complete devastation. “In simple terms, areas flattened to the ground. We saw a population suffering from extreme hunger and malnutrition.”

Eight-month-old Susan Haniya, weighing less than five kilograms, is fighting severe malnutrition and a serious chest condition, while living in a tent.

Videos from different parts of Gaza filmed over the past few days show the ongoing famine and the extreme difficulty of obtaining the most basic of foodstuffs:

[See video at IMEMC News Source Link]

Throughout Gaza, Palestinian farmland has been thoroughly devastated, and water wells poisoned, by Israeli invading forces over the past 23 months of genocide. This has left the population without any local sources of food, and completely dependent on external food aid. But virtually no food aid has been allowed to enter since March.

GAZA CITY INVASION CONTINUES FOR THIRD WEEK; 4 ISRAELI SOLDIERS MISSING:

The New York Times released satellite images showing the scale of destruction in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, over a very short period.

The first image was taken on August 8, while the second, captured on August 25, reveals the extensive damage to homes and infrastructure that occurred in just three weeks, highlighting the severe suffering of the civilian population.

Israeli media reported growing fears inside the army after at least four soldiers went missing during three battles with Hamas resistance fighters in Gaza. Search operations are still underway as fighting intensifies.

Quds News reported that one of the incidents took place in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, and was still ongoing late into the night.

Israeli reports confirmed that at least two soldiers were killed and 13 others wounded in Palestinian resistance operations.

According to Quds News, al-Qassam fighters launched a fierce operation against an Israeli force in al-Zeitoun. They prepared ambushes and deployed a large number of fighters to strike fortified positions.

Helicopters rushed to evacuate troops under heavy fire. Israeli reports said six helicopters sent for evacuation came under intense shooting in al-Zeitoun. Minutes after the first “serious incident” was reported, two more took place, injuring additional soldiers.

According to Hebrew sources, the Israeli occupation army activated the Hannibal Protocol to prevent the capture of prisoners during attacks in the Zeitoun neighborhood.

The Hannibal Protocol is a procedure used by the Israeli army to prevent the capture of its soldiers, even if they are killed. Therefore, this protocol allows the bombing of the positions of captured soldiers.

The following attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians were documented by local sources on Friday:

11:59 pm

10 citizens were killed tonight in Israeli occupation aircraft bombing on Nuseirat camp, Al-Karama area, and Al-Wahda Street in Gaza City.

Palestinian Kamel Isam Madi was announced dead after succumbing to the wounds he sustained in the Israeli bombing of his family tent in Mawasi, Rafah, southern Gaza.

A Wafa correspondent said that 5 Palestinians were killed after the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house belonging to the Al-Hafi family on Al-Ishreen Street in the Nuseirat camp, south of Gaza City.

Three citizens were also killed, two in the bombing of a residential apartment in the Karama area, northwest of Gaza City, and the third in the occupation’s bombing of the (Shawa and Hasri) tower on Al-Wahda Street in the city.

The Israeli occupation forces continue their violent bombardment on several sites in Gaza City, where they previously killed 7 citizens in the Sudanese and Al-Fawakhir areas of the city.

10 pm

At least one Palestinian was killed after Israeli occupation aircraft struck Al-Shawa Tower in Gaza City.

Israeli occupation naval boats shelled the western areas of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Two Palestinians were killed as Israeli occupation forces strike an apartment near Al-Andalus Tower in the Karama area, northwest Gaza City.

7 pm

8 citizens were killed, Friday evening, in the Israeli occupation forces’ bombing of areas in Gaza City.

Wafa correspondents said that Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a tent housing displaced people in the Sudanese area, northwest of Gaza, killing 4 citizens.

The occupation aircraft also bombed a group of citizens in the vicinity of the Al-Fawakhir area on Al-Wahda Street in Gaza City, killing 3 citizens.

A fisherman was also killed by Israeli naval gunfire near the town of Al-Qarara, northwest of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
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3 pm

A horrifying belt of fire sweeping through Gaza city, with a series of bombings by the Israeli airforce.

12 PM

An Israeli occupation airstrike targeted the Al-Seksek sanitary tools warehouse in the Asqoula area of al-Zaytoun neighborhood, igniting a massive fire. Despite the extreme danger, civil defense crews managed to reach the site and worked with limited means to prevent the flames from spreading to nearby homes. The bombing came as Israeli occupation forces expanded their strikes across al-Zaytoun and al-Sabra, continuing their relentless assault on Gaza City. (Source: m.saed.gaza (IG))

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UPDATED FROM:

11:05 AM REPORT

In Gaza City, five civilians were killed and others wounded when Israeli aircraft bombed a residential home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, west of the city.

Medical sources at the Baptist Hospital confirmed that at least two Palestinians were killed and others injured in a separate bombing of the Zeitoun neighborhood.

Medical teams recovered the bodies of four Palestinians and evacuated three wounded individuals from a displacement tent targeted by an Israeli airstrike in the al-Sudaniyya area, near Hamad Hospital in northwest Gaza City.

Simultaneous artillery shelling in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, caused additional injuries amid widespread bombardment across the Strip.

In the central governorate, two Palestinians were killed and others injured when an Israeli drone struck an apartment in Deir al-Balah.

Separately, three fatalities and one critically wounded individual were transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital following a drone strike targeting farmers in the Abu Sultan area east of the city.

In al-Bureij refugee camp, also in central Gaza, two Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli forces shelled a residential home at dawn.

In Deir al-Balah city, a Palestinian man and his wife were killed and several others injured when the army bombarded a home on Salam Street.

Three more Palestinians were killed and others wounded in a separate strike on Abu Hosni Street.

In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, at least five Palestinians were killed and others wounded when Israeli drones bombed displacement tents.

Also in Khan Younis, a Palestinian child was killed by Israeli army fire in Mawasi Khan Younis.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich escalated calls for the forced displacement of Gaza’s population, describing it as a necessary step to “eradicate the absolute evil committed against us on October 7.”

He openly advocated for cutting off water, electricity, and food supplies to the Strip, stating, “Those who do not die by bullets will die of hunger.”

On the humanitarian front, Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, reported the spread of an unidentified virus among Gaza’s displaced population. He warned that the medical system lacks the diagnostic tools needed to identify or contain the outbreak.

The director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS)in Gaza described the situation in the southern part of the Strip as extremely dangerous, warning of a deepening humanitarian collapse.

He stated that Israeli forces are actively preventing civil defense teams from reaching the wounded, obstructing emergency response efforts amid ongoing bombardments. Civilians waiting for aid and those sheltering in their homes are being directly targeted, he added, noting that even areas designated as “safe” by the occupying forces are being struck.

The official emphasized that the south cannot absorb the displaced population of Gaza City, and that the forced transfer of civilians under fire constitutes a grave violation. He called for urgent international action to prevent Israel from further encroaching on Gaza’s population and forcibly removing them from their land.

Meanwhile, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the ongoing escalation, stating that subjecting civilians in Gaza to another wave of deadly violence is “unthinkable.” He warned that any expansion of military operations would have “devastating consequences.”

Guterres warned of devastating consequences following Israel’s decision to expand its military offensive in Gaza City and described the move as a “new and dangerous phase” that would force hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee once again.

Guterres emphasized that civilians, including journalists and healthcare workers, are being killed in full view of the world and stressed that the humanitarian situation has reached catastrophic levels.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported Thursday that the cumulative toll of the ongoing genocide since October 7, 2023, has reached 62,966 killed and 159,266 wounded.

Of these, more than 11,121 fatalities and 47,225 injuries occurred since Israel violated the mediated ceasefire agreement on March 18, 2025.

The number of Palestinians killed while waiting for humanitarian aid has risen to 2,180, with over 16,000 injured. Famine-related deaths have climbed to 317, including 121 children, following four additional deaths recorded on Thursday.
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IDF Strike on Gaza City Bakery Kills 11 Palestinians, Including Children, Medics Say

According to Gaza's Health Ministry, a total of 66 people were killed and 345 wounded by Israeli fire over the past day, including 15 who were trying to obtain humanitarian aid and 10 who died of hunger

by Jack Khoury and Reuters for Haaretz
Aug 30, 2025 5:54 pm IDT
Updated: Aug 30, 20258:25 pm IDT

At least 11 Palestinians, including children, were killed in an IDF airstrike on a bakery in Gaza City on Saturday, medical sources said.

Dozens more were wounded in the attack on the Ansar neighborhood in the western part of the city while waiting in line to buy bread, medical sources added.

Images from the scene show bodies scattered alongside loaves of bread.

The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry said on Saturday that at least 66 people were killed and 345 wounded by Israeli fire over the past 24 hours, including 15 who were trying to obtain humanitarian aid.

According to medical sources in Gaza, 50 of the deaths occurred since Saturday morning, including at least 35 in Gaza City alone.

Five people were killed and several others wounded in an IDF airstrike on a residential building in the Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza City. Reports indicated that the first and second floors of the building were directly hit, and eyewitnesses described harrowing scenes of casualties being evacuated from the site.

Israeli defense officials said that the strike targeted the spokesperson of Hamas' military wing, Abu Obeida. Hamas said that the strike represented "a continuation of destruction and escalation aimed at forcing civilians to leave the city."

Four other Gaza City victims were killed in a strike on a group of civilians in the city's Zeitoun neighborhood. In another strike in the Yarmouk neighborhood of Gaza City, targeting a building that had previously served as a school, a young girl was killed and several other children were wounded. In the neighborhood of Jabalya, one person was killed in an airstrike on another building that once functioned as a school.

The head of the Red Cross warned on Saturday that it would be impossible to keep people safe during a mass evacuation of Gaza City, as Israel intensifies its assault.

"It is impossible that a mass evacuation of Gaza City could ever be done in a way that is safe and dignified under the current conditions," Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric said in a statement.

An evacuation would provoke a massive population displacement that no other area in the Gaza Strip is equipped to absorb, amid severe shortages of food, shelter, and medical supplies, Spoljaric said.

The Gaza Health Ministry also said that 10 people, including three children, died of hunger in the past 24 hours.

According to the Health Ministry, 332 people in the Gaza Strip have died of starvation since the start of the war, including 124 children.

The total death toll from IDF fire since the war began in October 2023 has reached 63,371, with 11,240 killed since Israel broke the cease-fire on March 18, the Health Ministry said.
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IDF Strike on Gaza City Bakery Kills 11 Palestinians, Including Children, Medics Say

According to Gaza's Health Ministry, a total of 66 people were killed and 345 wounded by Israeli fire over the past day, including 15 who were trying to obtain humanitarian aid and 10 who died of hunger

by Jack Khoury and Reuters for Haaretz
Aug 30, 2025

At least 11 Palestinians, including children, were killed in an IDF airstrike on a bakery in Gaza City on Saturday, medical sources said.

Dozens more were wounded in the attack on the Ansar neighborhood in the western part of the city while waiting in line to buy bread, medical sources added.

Images from the scene show bodies scattered alongside loaves of bread.

The Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry said on Saturday that at least 66 people were killed and 345 wounded by Israeli fire over the past 24 hours, including 15 who were trying to obtain humanitarian aid.

According to medical sources in Gaza, 50 of the deaths occurred since Saturday morning, including at least 35 in Gaza City alone.

Five people were killed and several others wounded in an IDF airstrike on a residential building in the Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza City. Reports indicated that the first and second floors of the building were directly hit, and eyewitnesses described harrowing scenes of casualties being evacuated from the site.

Israeli defense officials said that the strike targeted the spokesperson of Hamas' military wing, Abu Obeida. Hamas said that the strike represented "a continuation of destruction and escalation aimed at forcing civilians to leave the city."

Four other Gaza City victims were killed in a strike on a group of civilians in the city's Zeitoun neighborhood. In another strike in the Yarmouk neighborhood of Gaza City, targeting a building that had previously served as a school, a young girl was killed and several other children were wounded. In the neighborhood of Jabalya, one person was killed in an airstrike on another building that once functioned as a school.

The head of the Red Cross warned on Saturday that it would be impossible to keep people safe during a mass evacuation of Gaza City, as Israel intensifies its assault.

"It is impossible that a mass evacuation of Gaza City could ever be done in a way that is safe and dignified under the current conditions," Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric said in a statement.

An evacuation would provoke a massive population displacement that no other area in the Gaza Strip is equipped to absorb, amid severe shortages of food, shelter, and medical supplies, Spoljaric said.

The Gaza Health Ministry also said that 10 people, including three children, died of hunger in the past 24 hours.

According to the Health Ministry, 332 people in the Gaza Strip have died of starvation since the start of the war, including 124 children.

The total death toll from IDF fire since the war began in October 2023 has reached 63,371, with 11,240 killed since Israel broke the cease-fire on March 18, the Health Ministry said.

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