Israel on Tuesday killed at least 83 Palestinians, including 58 aid seekers, in different attacks across Gaza. Meanwhile, eight people, including a child, starved to death due to the blockade of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, raising the death toll from Israel-induced starvation to 188, including 94 children.
Israel has so far killed at least 61,020 Palestinians in its genocidal war on Gaza, with more than half being women and children.
The United Nations on Tuesday said that as many as 28 children are being killed daily by the Israeli military in Gaza.
"Death by bombardments. Death by malnutrition and starvation. Death by lack of aid and vital services... In Gaza, an average of 28 children a day – the size of a classroom – have been killed," the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a post on X on Tuesday.
Stressing that that children in Gaza are in urgent need of food, clean water, medicine and protection, the agency added, "More than anything, they need a ceasefire, NOW.”
According to the UN human rights office, at least 1,373 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while waiting for aid near the distribution sites of US-backed and Israel-operated Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
A former GHF guard has revealed to the media that the Israeli military used "automatic machinegun fire, artillery rounds, mortar rounds, and at times, tank fire from the Merkava tank against unarmed, starving civilians, women, children, the disabled" seeking aid.
"Never in my military career, 25 years of service in multiple combat locations around the world, have I seen anyone use a 'warning shot' from a belt-fed machinegun,” he was quoted as saying by Al Jazeera.
"I have never witnessed something to this level of destruction, this level of dehumanisation of a population, and the abhorrent, unnecessary escalation of force and unnecessary force used against an unarmed population," he added.
The UN and other rights organisations have refused to cooperate with the GHF, slamming it for "aiding" Israel in its genocidal war against Gaza.