Israel Blocks Gaza Aid Crossings and Continues Attacks Despite Ceasefire, Deepening Palestinian Famine

Israel is constricting Gaza’s lifelines during the ceasefire by keeping key crossings largely closed, cutting the volume of aid it allows, and imposing new bureaucratic barriers, while famine expands.

“Aid continues to enter the Gaza Strip daily through Israeli checkpoints, with hundreds of trucks delivering essential supplies”

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The Independent reports that Rafah remains mostly closed and that Israel slashed permitted aid trucks from 600 to 300, adding a new registration process that stalls humanitarian groups.

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The article calls the 560 metric tons entering daily a “trickle” in the face of mass hunger and disease.

UN and WFP updates echoed by Devdiscourse and The Sun (Malaysia) describe aid convoys struggling to reach the north because two northern crossings stay shut and war-damaged roads block deliveries, leaving Gaza City without WFP distribution.

France 24 underscores that only 339 trucks were offloaded versus 600 allowed, while the UN and aid groups reject Israel’s claim that enough food is entering or that Hamas is diverting it.

The UN is urging all crossings to open immediately, citing 2.2 million people at risk, 190,000 metric tons of ready supplies, and tens of thousands of acutely malnourished children, according to impactpolicies.org’s summary of UN appeals.

Israeli forces are still killing and injuring Palestinians during the ceasefire.

The Guardian reports that Israeli troops shot at a family vehicle after it crossed an invisible “yellow line,” killing seven children and three women.

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Gaza’s civil defense said there were no physical boundary markers.

France 24 and The Killeen Daily Herald describe another Israeli attack that killed nine people in an Israeli-controlled area near Gaza City, with Israel invoking self-defense.

Al Jazeera reports Israeli fire wounded three Palestinians in Khan Younis.

Middle East Eye and The Canary quote Gaza’s media office saying Israel committed 47 ceasefire violations, killing 38 civilians and injuring 143 through direct fire on civilians, shelling of homes, and arrests.

Body recoveries during the ceasefire reveal further abuses and political leverage.

“Over a week into the ceasefire following the 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict, significant developments continue in Gaza”

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The Guardian and France 24 report that Israel handed back 135 Palestinian bodies, many showing signs of torture, execution, or abuse, which Israel denies.

Hamas has handed over 10 Israeli hostage remains.

Al Jazeera adds that Gaza authorities struggle to identify the returned Palestinian corpses.

Hamas says further recovery requires heavy machinery that Israel blocks at the crossings.

The Independent links Israel’s decision to halve daily aid trucks to what it describes as Hamas’s slow return of hostage bodies, connecting border slowdowns to political pressure.

The New Indian Express notes Israel identified one hostage’s remains as the 10th returned but states that 11 had been handed over, figures that differ from other outlets’ counts.

Famine is expanding while Israel delays or blocks aid.

France 24 reports a declared famine in Gaza City and more than 400 malnutrition deaths confirmed by the UN.

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The Herald echoes famine conditions and the same death toll.

The Guardian says Gaza’s death toll has passed 68,000 with about 10,000 bodies still under rubble.

It adds that Israel’s delays in allowing food convoys keep aid critically scarce.

The Independent calls current aid a trickle, with millions of pounds of supplies stuck as diseases spread.

Devdiscourse and The Sun (Malaysia) specify that the World Food Programme has not started distribution in Gaza City because two northern crossings remain closed and roads are destroyed.

Competing narratives over aid levels and border control reveal how Israel’s restrictions deepen hunger during the ceasefire.

“A recent incident in northern Gaza involved an Israeli military shooting after a vehicle crossed an invisible "yellow line" boundary, resulting in the deaths of seven children and three women from one family”

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France 24 and The Herald report that only 339 of an allowed 600 trucks were offloaded.

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The Independent states that Israel itself halved daily trucks to 300 and kept Rafah mostly closed.

Arab News claims nearly 950 trucks entered via Israeli checkpoints, but Gaza‑Egypt Rafah remains closed.

The Guardian adds that Israel’s convoy delays keep supplies critically scarce.

Devdiscourse and The Sun (Malaysia) emphasize the World Food Programme’s inability to distribute in Gaza City because two northern crossings remain shut, compounding famine in the north.