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While the forced famine of Israel tightens its grip The entire population of GazaAn increasing number of Palestinian families are frantically looking for news from parents who have undertaken perilous trips to obtain food distribution points, never to come back.
Khaled Obaid looked for his beloved son, Ahmed, for two months, has scanned each vehicle that passes on the coastal road of Deir-el-Balah, hoping against any expectation that one of them can bring him home.
The boy had left the family tent moved to the central city to find food for his parents and sister, who had lost her husband during the war, and headed for Zikim’s crossing point, where the aid trucks enter the north of Gaza.
“He has not returned so far. He has gone because he was hungry. We have nothing to eat,” said the distraught father in Al Jazeera, in the background in tears with his wife under the blue tarpaulin where they were sheltered.
Khaled reported the disappearance of his son to the International Committee of the Red Cross and each official organization that he could reach, on radio. To date, he has not received any response to where Ahmed is.
The story of Khaled is too common as part of the blocking punishing during Israel of Gaza, where the largely moved population faces a brutal choice between famine and the bravery of the bullets dismissed by Israeli soldiers and American security entrepreneurs with the aim of obtaining food from the Gaza Humanitarian sites (GHF). These distribution points have been nicknamed “death traps” and “human slaughterhouses” by the United Nations and rights groups.
It is a bet of life or death that has taken the life of almost 1,400 people, mainly shot down by the Israeli army, on help sites since they started operations at the end of May and along the alimony roads, according to figures published by the UN last week. In other words, not to mention the countless number of missing aid seekers, such as Ahmed.
Human rights monitors have made it possible to collect first -hand accounts of the missing people in Gaza, to be found later, killed by Israeli forces.
“In many cases, those who have disappeared are apparently killed near the aid distribution points, but due to the Israeli targeting, their bodies have remained inaccessible,” MAHA Hussaini, head of the Human Rights Monitor Euro-Med, told Al Jazeera.
“Many Palestinians have left the house with empty hands, hoping to come back with a bag of flour. But many have never returned,” said Tareq Azzoum of Al Jazeera, reporting from Deir-el-Balah. “In Gaza, the border between survival and disappearance is now heartbreaking.”
As the number of missing aid seekers rises, famine Hunted the enclave, with more than 80 adults who should have died of famine in the past five weeks only, and 93 children succumbing to artificial malnutrition since the start of the war.
Gaza authorities claim that an average of 84 trucks have entered the besieged enclave every day since Israel attenuated restrictions on July 27. But help organizations say that at least 600 aid trucks are required per day to meet the basic needs of the territory.
‘Death Circle’
On Monday, in the midst of the growing international conviction on mass famine, considered by many to be deliberately conceived by Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to double his war objectives.
Netanyahu announced that he would condemn a meeting of his cabinet on Tuesday to ensure that “Gaza would no longer constitute a threat to Israel”. The Israel channel 12 cited an official saying that Netanyahu wanted to extend the offensive.
The announcement came by another bloody day in the strip, with at least 74 Palestinians killed during Israeli attacks since dawn on Monday, including 36 aid applicants, according to medical sources.
Among the attacks, at least three people were killed by an Israeli strike in a house in Deir El-Balah, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
A source from the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City reported that seven people had been killed in Israeli bombing in several areas in the Shujayea district, east of Gaza City.
The emergency services said two had been killed in an Israeli bombardment of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
It also appeared on Monday that a nurse at the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir El-Balah was killed when he was struck by a help box.
This week, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, described the dangerous public of parameters as a “distraction” and a smoke screen.
On Monday, UNICEF warned that 28 children – essentially an entire “classroom” – are dying every day of Israeli bombing and the lack of help.
“Gaza children need food, water, medicine and protection. More than anything, they need a ceasefire now, “said the United Nations agency on X.
Death by bombing.
Death by malnutrition and famine.
Death for lack of help and vital services.
In Gaza, on average 28 children per day – the size of a classroom – were killed.Gaza children need food, water, medication and protection. More than anything, they need a … pic.twitter.com/7qiqq6iaog
– Unicef (@Unicef) August 4, 2025
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on the United Nations Security Council to “assume its responsibilities” by applying an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, making an official visit to the territory and implementing calls at a recent United Nations Conference in New York for a solution to two states.
In a statement published on Social Networks on Monday, the ministry warned that more than two million Palestinians in Gaza “live in a tight circle of murder, famine, thirst and deprivation of medicine, treatment and all fundamental human rights”.
