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Those killed in the strikes include four people in an apartment building in Gaza City among others, hospital staff and the ambulance service said.
The foreign ministers of 25 Western nations have slammed Israel for “drip feeding” aid into the Gaza Strip, as the health ministry in the territory said that more than 1,000 people have been killed seeking humanitarian relief there since late May.
Israel reportedly will soon allow Jordan and the United Arab Emirates to resume aid airdrops into Gaza as humanitarian concerns grow.
The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is beyond the world’s “worst fears,” Australia’s government said Friday, as reports of mass starvation and disease across the war-torn enclave persist.
Israel said on Tuesday there were 950 trucks' worth of aid waiting in Gaza - but the agencies accuse Israel of blocking access to it.
In a joint statement released on Wednesday, more than 100 aid agencies and rights groups said Gaza was facing “widespread starvation” and called on Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid.
More than 100 aid agencies warned of mass starvation in Gaza and called for the immediate restoration of the "full flow" of humanitarian aid and a cease-fire.