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Israel kills 57 across Gaza, including 35 aid seekers

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Banglapress Published: 23 September 2025, 10:25 AM
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Israel kills 57 across Gaza, including 35 aid seekers
  Bangla Press Desk: Israeli forces killed 57 people across Gaza Strip since dawn on Saturday, and over 61% of the victims were hungry aid seekers. The deaths come on top of those killed in Israel's starvation tactics. The barbarities show how international calls for de-escalation are falling flat on Israeli leadership's ears, bearing an ominous sign that the upcoming flurry of Western recognitions for Palestine sovereign state will have no impact on Palestinians’ sufferings. Earlier on Saturday, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry reported that the al-Shifa Hospital, al-Rantisi Hospital, Nasser Hospital and al-Ahli Arab Hospital were all hosting people several times their capacity. “Hospitals resort to spreading beds in corridors and on floors to accommodate the increase in patient and injury numbers,” the ministry said in a statement.
Among those killed Saturday were 35 aid seekers. Many were killed near sites of GHF, an Israel-, US-backed organization controversially involved “Hunger Game-style” killings of Palestinians. Israel has been working with the US on a “sadistic process” where people risk being killed or at least maimed by the very actors from whom they must obtain food, alleges Ralph Wilde, professor of international law at University College London. At a GHF distribution site near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, aid seeker Yahia Youssef described chaotic scenes. After helping to carry three people wounded by gunshots, he said he saw others on the ground, bleeding. “It’s the same daily episode,” Youssef said.
Health workers said at least eight people were killed in the incident. Israel’s military said it fired warning shots at a gathering approaching its forces. At least two people were killed in the Shakoush area, hundreds of metres (yards) from where the GHF operates another site in the southernmost city of Rafah, witnesses said. Witness Mohammed Abu Taha said Israeli troops opened fire on the crowds. He saw three people – two men and a woman – shot as he fled. Apart from using force, Israel has also employed a starvation tactic to kill Gazans in large numbers at significantly shorter time and cost.
Atef Abu Khater, 17, died of starvation on Saturday, a source at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City told Al Jazeera in a textbook example of hunger killing. His weight had dropped from 70kg (154lbs) to just 25kg (55lbs) when he died, his family said – roughly what a nine-year-old child should weigh. “We hear from his family members and others who knew him that he used to be a local sports champion. He ended up losing a lot of weight, becoming acutely malnourished, and ultimately dying,” Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City. “He was one of thousands of severe malnutrition cases throughout Gaza.” Meanwhile, Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, released a longer video of Israeli captive Evyatar David, following a 40-second clip shared Friday.
David, who was taken from the Nova music festival on 7 October 2023, appears emaciated in a narrow tunnel. In the four-minute video, subtitled in Arabic and English, he describes severe deprivation, saying, “I don’t know what I’m going to eat today … I haven’t eaten in days … I’ve barely got drinking water.” He gives the date as 27 July. At one point, David shows a calendar that he says tracks his July food intake – marking some days with lentils or beans and others with nothing. Near the end, he holds a shovel and says: “What I’m doing now is digging my own grave … This is the grave where I think I’m going to be buried.” The video concludes with text over the screen: “Only a ceasefire agreement brings them back alive.” David’s family had slammed the earlier footage released by Hamas as a “disgusting hunger campaign”.  This article was originally published on Daily Sun.
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