Carnage Amid Starvation: Israeli Forces Slaughter 44 Palestinians Including Aid Seekers

According to Saed News, citing Mehr News and Russia Today Arabic, the Israeli military continues to escalate its campaign of collective punishment in Gaza, with at least 44 Palestinians killed over a single 24-hour period, including 14 people reportedly gunned down while waiting for humanitarian assistance.

Medical sources in Gaza report that the dead include women and children who had gathered near aid trucks, highlighting a pattern of lethal force against unarmed civilians. Witnesses described scenes of chaos and bloodshed as Israeli forces allegedly opened fire on desperate crowds seeking food. The atrocity marks yet another chapter in what human rights monitors are increasingly describing as the deliberate weaponization of starvation.

The violence was not confined to Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike, while another three were reportedly slain by Zionist settlers—armed and accompanied, according to local media, by Israeli military personnel—in a raid on the village of Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah. Eyewitness accounts allege the settlers numbered over 150, carrying out what one Palestinian official described as a state-backed pogrom.

These latest incidents follow Wednesday’s report by the Associated Press, which cited the deaths of 79 Palestinians in a single day, including 33 who died while attempting to access aid. Over recent weeks, dozens more have been killed in similar circumstances, as Israeli troops repeatedly fire on civilians moving toward aid convoys.

Meanwhile, resistance in Gaza persists. On the same day, seven Israeli soldiers were killed after Palestinian fighters detonated an explosive device beneath their vehicle—underscoring both the scale of civilian suffering and the resolve of armed resistance under siege.

What is emerging is not simply a humanitarian crisis, but a moral indictment. The Israeli government’s conduct in Gaza and the West Bank—marked by extrajudicial killings, enforced famine, and settler violence—has sparked mounting international outrage. Yet despite widespread condemnation, Tel Aviv continues to prosecute a campaign that, to many observers, now exceeds the bounds of warfare and veers into atrocity.