14 aid seekers among 44 Palestinians killed since dawn

Israeli forces have killed at least 44 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn today, Al Jazeera Arabic has reported. The number includes at least 14 aid seekers.

Thirty Palestinians have been killed in Gaza City alone, where Israeli warplanes have hit a residential building. Israeli forces have intensified bombardments in the area in recent days.

At least 12 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a building in Tal al-Hawa in southern Gaza City. In a separate attack, seven Palestinians were killed in a strike on a home in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood. 

Five people were killed by Israeli fire near an aid distribution point in the Morag Corridor in southern Gaza.

Gaza’s health ministry has said that 13 more people have been killed by starvation. The number includes three children who have died “due to famine and malnutrition”. 

The current figures bring the toll of hunger-related deaths to 361, which includes 130 children.

More than 63,557 Palestinians have been killed, and 160,660 others wounded in Israel's genocide in Gaza since October 2023. The respected medical journal, The Lancet, estimates the figure to be significantly higher.