More than 6,650 Palestinians, including at least 2,704 children, have been killed and 17,439 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7. Only 2 percent of the food that normally enters has entered Gaza as Israel bombs bakeries and residential buildings. The water is about to run out, and the health system has already collapsed. Gaza’s open-air prison has become a slaughterhouse. The genocide advances, and the imminent Zionist invasion has not yet begun.
Wednesday, October 25
The British NGO Oxfam accused Israel of using hunger as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza, and added that only two percent of the usual food supplies have been delivered to the enclave since the “total siege” of the Zionist state.
Today, Israel bombed a bakery in the Deir el-Balah refugee camp for the second time. The initial Israeli airstrike on the bakery and neighboring homes killed at least 10 people, the Gaza media office said. It was the only bakery in the area and had just received flour from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Residents searching through the rubble today suffered another deadly explosion. There are already 10 bakeries destroyed by Israel in Gaza.
Oxfam also said drinking water is running out in the besieged enclave: “It is estimated that there are currently only three liters of drinking water available per person.”
Amnesty International also accuses Israel of committing war crimes by demanding the displacement of the 1.4 million residents of Gaza City to the south of the Strip: “Declaring an entire city or region a military objective goes against the international humanitarian law… Israel may be attempting to forcibly remove civilians from northern Gaza.” Meanwhile, Israel has continued bombing southern Gaza, causing many evacuees to return to their homes.
In the last 24 hours, 756 Palestinians, including 344 children, have been killed in Israeli attacks, mainly in the southern Gaza region. Precisely there, a missile killed the wife and two children of journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh. The journalist said that Israeli forces attacked his family in the southern Gaza Strip, where they were traveling after leaving their home in the northern Gaza Strip following Israel’s evacuation order: “What just happened it is clear: it is part of the continuous attacks against women and children in Gaza…We knew that the Israeli occupation would not leave us unpunished. They are taking revenge on the children. But our tears are human, not of cowardice.”
Israeli airstrikes have continued to target civilians and destroy their homes in different areas of Gaza. Among the targets hit today were the densely populated camps of al-Shati and Al Maghazi, causing dozens of deaths in each.
Today the Al-Taj 3 residential tower, where 500 people live, was also bombed, bringing the building down on their heads.
In various raids carried out in the West Bank last night, 58 Palestinians were detained. The death toll from Israeli attacks since October 7 in the West Bank has reached 103.
The Gaza Ministry of Health declares the “total collapse” of the health system. There are 7,000 sick and injured Palestinians in hospitals who are at risk of death. Gaza’s hospitals have become shelters for the displaced, they are open but cannot provide any health services because their capacities and resources have been exhausted.
Nearly 600,000 people are sheltering in place in 150 United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRWA) facilities in Gaza, while at least 40 UNRWA facilities have been affected and 38 of its workers have died.
“Our shelters exceed four times their capacity. Many people sleep on the streets because the current facilities are saturated,” the agency said in a post shared on X.
These are the results of the “unblocking” of humanitarian aid announced by the US and Israel: according to the UN, only 2% of the food destined for Gaza has managed to enter the territory since the total blockade imposed on October 9 .
Israel reported the death of Sergeant Zev Dadu, a logistics supervisor in the Golani Brigade 51st Battalion, during the October 7 Hamas attack. His death brings the total number of dead Israeli soldiers to 309. At least one missile fell on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a televised statement in which he said he was preparing the ground invasion of Gaza. He said the decision on when forces would enter the Strip would be made by the government’s special war cabinet.
Israel’s Channel 12 reported that authorities have sent a warning to Israeli residents living along the border with Gaza to go “immediately” to shelters. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused the United States of “directing” Israel’s attack on Gaza: “The United States is a clear accomplice of the criminals… it is in some way directing the crime that is being committed in Gaza”.
The UN Security Council remains unable to reach a consensus. The United States and Russia have led two separate efforts to introduce a resolution, but both have found the other’s proposed texts unacceptable and have used their veto power to prevent the resolutions from being passed.
The UN Secretary General was attacked by Israel for expressing that “it is also important to recognize that the Hamas attacks did not occur in a vacuum… The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their lands constantly devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; its suffocated economy; its people were displaced, and their homes demolished.”
Although the official clarified that he does not condone Hamas at all, Israel calls for his resignation and threatens to revoke UN diplomatic visas.
Mobilizations of solidarity with the Palestinian people and against the Zionist genocide continue to spread throughout the world.
Thousands marched in Buenos Aires to the Israeli embassy to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and repudiation of the Israeli genocide.
