Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 16 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours — among them, several attacks on apartment buildings in Gaza City that killed three people, including a child. Separately, a Palestinian fisherman was killed, and another injured, after Israeli naval forces opened fire on a boat off Gaza’s coast. Israel’s latest attacks came as the Gaza government media office reported Israel has dropped 100,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip over the past 19 months, leaving some 62,000 Palestinians dead or missing under the rubble.
This comes as some 170 community kitchens across Gaza have shut down after running out of food due to Israel’s total blockade. Displaced Palestinian mother Huda Abu Diyya says she does not know how she will feed her children after a Khan Younis community kitchen served its last meals Thursday.
Huda Abu Diyya: “Today is the last day. What will we eat? We will die of hunger, for the sake of our children. We are still alive because of the communal kitchen. We don’t cook or bake or do anything, only heating the food that we beg to take. If it weren’t for the communal kitchen, we would have died. For the sake of our children, what shall we do? They said today is the last day. What shall we do? What should I feed them tomorrow?”