Updates: Israel kills 45 in Gaza as UN says starvation ‘worse than ever’

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We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of today’s main events:

• Sources across Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera that 45 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks since morning, including 11 aid seekers.
• Gaza’s Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs has accused Israeli forces of desecrating a cemetery in southern Gaza with bulldozers and tanks, exhuming bodies from graves.
• UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says Israel has turned Gaza into a “graveyard of children and starving people”.
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the global failure to halt the bloodshed in Gaza shows that the world has not learned from the Srebrenica genocide.
• Nearly 800 Palestinians have been killed at Gaza aid points and convoys, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
• Doctors Without Borders says an Israeli advance on western Khan Younis in southern Gaza has led it to evacuate a clinic and has “seriously impacted” operations at another.

Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, says sanctions by the Trump administration aim to silence her for exposing genocide and calling out those who profit from it.

She urges people to “stand united, denounce and push back”.

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Speaking to reporters, Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, said that the threat posed by Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza continues for the enclave’s aid workers.

“This Wednesday and again yesterday, a total of five strikes hit a few hundred metres from where air aid workers go. This included a UN staffer. Thankfully, none of the workers were injured”, he said.

The UN says that it lost 126 of its personnel, killed in Gaza, in 2024 alone.

“Also yesterday”, Dujarric continued, “members of the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies were shot at and injured on their way to help a colleague who had been injured and unreachable since last Friday. In all cases, the movements have been coordinated with the Israeli authorities.”

As we’ve been reporting, the Israeli army plans to concentrate a vast percentage of Gaza’s population into a camp in south Gaza’s Rafah, from which they would not be able to leave.

The plan is part of Israel’s proposed ceasefire deal with Hamas. Defence Minister Israel Katz says construction of the concentration zone would begin during the implementation of the agreement.

Several Palestinians told Al Jazeera that they would rather die where they were than bow to Israel’s plans.

“This is a crime; it is a sin. We’d rather die here than head to the south,” one man told our team on the ground.

“We will not head to Rafah, even if we all die here. We’re tired of displacement,” said another.

Israel’s plan has drawn international condemnation, including from the United Nations.

Israel is engineering a “cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill” in Gaza, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees says, as the world body reports that since May, some 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.

“Under our watch, Gaza has become the graveyard of children [and] starving people,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said in a post on X on Friday.

People in Gaza have “no way out”, he said. “Their choice is between 2 deaths: starvation or being [shot] at.”

Read our full story here.

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara, speaking from Paris, highlights Israel’s plan to concentrate Gaza’s population in Rafah as part of ongoing forced displacement, calling it a government-backed policy amounting to war crimes.

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A spokesman for the rescue organisation says that it no longer has any functioning ambulances in Gaza City due to relentless Israeli attacks.

He said that the group’s crews are moving in civilian cars to help dig out Palestinians who are trapped in rubble after Israeli strikes, but that the crews are unable to respond to distress calls.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned the hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached an unprecedented level, with humanitarian efforts crippled by access restrictions.

“The situation is worse than I’ve ever seen it before,” said Carl Skau, WFP’s deputy executive director, during a news conference at UN headquarters in New York after his fourth visit to Gaza.

Skau revealed that the “humanitarian needs have never been higher” and noted that the UN’s “ability to respond and to assist has never been more constrained”.

“Malnutrition is surging,” he said, adding that 90,000 children are now in urgent need of treatment for malnutrition. “One in three people in Gaza go for days without eating.”

The Kuwait Field Hospital in the besieged enclave says seven Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on displaced persons’ tents in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis.

A source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital says four Palestinians were killed and others were injured in two Israeli air strikes on Deir el-Balah.

At least 31 people have been killed since morning, according to hospital sources in Gaza.

The UN has warned that Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid access into the Gaza Strip, including fuel deliveries, are placing countless lives at risk.

“Such denials are life-threatening,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said during a news conference, stressing that “every day without a ceasefire brings more preventable deaths in Gaza, children dying in pain, and hungry people shot while trying to reach the trickle of aid allowed” by Israel.

He noted that dozens were reportedly killed Friday in Rafah while trying to collect basic supplies for their families.

“Meanwhile, the fuel crisis in Gaza remains acute. Yesterday, for the second straight day, our colleagues were able to bring into Gaza about 75,000 liters of much-needed fuel,” Dujarric said. “However, these amounts are a small portion of what is required to sustain life-saving operations on a daily basis.”

We’ve been reporting on the Israeli settler attack in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, that killed one Palestinian.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are now reporting that residents of Sinjil and al-Mazraa ash-Sharqiya are continuing efforts to locate a Palestinian man who was discovered missing after the attack.

Gaza medics tell our team that another Palestinian seeking aid has been killed by Israeli fire in the north of the Gaza Strip, an attack that wounded several others.

Israel has killed more than 700 starving people waiting to receive aid in the Strip since late May.