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#Israel approves plan to take #control of #Gaza City
Israel's security cabinet approved a plan to take control of #GazaCity early Fri, hours after PM #Netanyahu said Israel intended to take #military control of the entire #GazaStrip despite intensifying criticism…over the devastating almost 2-yr-old war.
"The #IDF will prepare to take control of Gaza City while providing #humanitarian #aid to the civilian population outside the combat zones," Netanyahu's office said….
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-approves-plan-take-control-gaza-city-2025-08-07/
A woman collects flour from the ground as Palestinians receive aid supplies from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in the central Gaza Strip, August 1.
Gaza Olympics
Palestinians run towards parachutes carrying aid packages airdropped over northern Gaza Strip, August 7. REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj
Why humanitarians must act to end Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza: With all other actors abdicating responsibility, a broad coalition of #aid organisations must take bold steps to halt Israeli atrocities. | The New Humanitarian https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025/07/28/why-humanitarians-must-act-end-israels-genocide-gaza #HumanitarianAlibi
Gaza airdrops pose grave danger
“The Israeli occupation exploits these aid drops as part of its policy of engineered starvation, fostering chaos and thuggery, and fostering the spread of gangs of thieves and bandits.”
It explained that many Palestinians have been injured – and some have even been killed – as boxes of aid fell from the sky onto their tents and homes. The amount of assistance being airdropped into Gaza amounts to only a drop in the ocean of what’s needed
Gaza must be flooded with food aid ‘each and every day to prevent mass starvation’: WFP
Families in Gaza are going days without food.
Parents are making impossible choices – sacrificing their own meals, and even their safety, to feed their children.
WFP and partners are doing everything possible to deliver urgent assistance. But it's just a drop in the ocean of needs.
— World Food Programme (#WFP) August 6, 2025
Despite the suffering, Israel allowed just 36 aid trucks into Gaza on Saturday, even as 22,000 loaded trucks remain at the crossings, waiting to enter, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.
Before October 2023, about 500 aid trucks entered Gaza daily – a number that not been reached since.
In March, Israel completely blocked all exits and aid, only opening up for a tiny fraction of the needed aid in the past two months.
Palestinians sift through sand in search of scattered food from aid drops
Twenty people killed after aid truck overturned in central Gaza
20 people had been killed and dozens were injured attempting to access food aid after a truck overturned while travelling through unsafe roads in central Gaza.
“The truck carrying food overturned on them after the occupation forces forced the truck to enter through unsafe roads, which had previously been bombed and were not suitable for passage.”