Israel Is Still Killing Palestinians Waiting For Aid

Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Almost newsletter, a new weekly email to help you stay updated on and make sense of the latest in Israel’s war on Gaza.

After killing more than 112 people in the Flour Massacre, Israel is still killing Palestinians trying to get aid in Gaza.

Including the Flour Massacre on Feb. 29, Israeli forces have now killed at least 400 Palestinians trying to get aid.

After declaring war on Hamas on Oct. 7, Israel has imposed a “total seige” of Gaza, blocking food, fuel and water from entering.

This has pushed Gaza’s population to the brink of famine, with at least 23 children dying from starvation.

Israel then went on to kill more Palestinians waiting for aid on March 3, March 5, March 7 and on March 12.

And on March 13, Israel confirmed it attacked a food distribution center, killing at least five people, including a UN worker.

That’s the 165th UN worker to have been killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7. Israel then killed more Palestinians waiting for aid on March 14.

And on March 15, an Israeli airstrike killed six people and wounded at least 83 at an aid distribution center in central Gaza.

On the same day, Israeli helicopters and artillery also opened fire on hundreds of Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City, killing at least 20 people and injuring over 155.

Palestinian authorities said on March 14 Israel has targeted people trying to receive aid for at least 20 consecutive days now.

What’s Been Happening In Gaza

• Gaza is suffering the world’s worst current hunger crisis due to Israel’s war and blockade.
• Children in Gaza held a symbolic funeral for the at least 25 children who died of starvation due to Israel’s war.
• Despite Israeli airstrikes destroying a mosque in Gaza, Palestinians gathered to pray in its ruins for Ramadan.
• This American woman living in Gaza was rescued from the rubble after an Israeli airstrike destroyed her home.
• The UN has found that Israel broke international law when it shot and killed this Lebanese journalist reporting at the border.
• The EU’s Foreign Minister said Israel’s war on Gaza has turned it into the world’s biggest “open-air graveyard”.
• Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted it will invade Rafah and called Hamas new ceasefire deal “unrealistic”.
• Piers Morgan asked this UK journalist what he would do if he were Israel’s prime minister and his answer was iconic.
• Doctors who worked in Gaza have told the UN about the horrors and suffering they saw on the ground.
• In Spain, hundreds of people held a mass die-in for killed Palestinians to protest the war, lying together to the sound of sirens next to a giant banner depicting a section of Picasso’s famous anti-war painting “Guernica”.
• Meanwhile, we spoke to some of the protesters in Taiwan who held a protest for Aaron Bushnell, the American soldier who set himself on fire to protest the US’ complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza.

In The Israeli-Occupied West Bank

• Israeli forces beat and blocked Palestinian worshippers from praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Ramadan eve.
• Israeli soldiers killed this 13-year-old Palestinian boy while he was playing with fireworks to mark Ramadan.

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