On Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued warnings of the risks resulting from the spread of famine and malnutrition, as a result of preventing the arrival and entry of aid into the Gaza Strip in general and to its north in particular.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said, in a statement, that “Israel is gradually expanding the war of extermination to include Rafah and its region, and that famine has already begun to claim the lives of Gazans in the northern Gaza Strip,” noting that “what it warned about earlier has become a reality, as it was announced The death of at least 15 children due to malnutrition and hunger, which continues to threaten more children, in addition to the occupation forces deliberately bombing aid trucks and citizens gathering for them, as happened in the Nabulsi and Kuwaiti roundabouts.

She added, “Despite widespread international and American warnings about the repercussions of the Israeli ground invasion of Rafah and its area, especially on the lives of more than 1.4 million Palestinian civilians present in Rafah, the number of martyrs in Rafah during the last 24 hours reached 26 martyrs as a result of the escalation taking place in The occupation army bombed the city, which means that Israel began to gradually focus its bombing and military operations on Rafah, noting that the bombing and destruction are escalating hour after hour in Khan Yunis and Deir al-Balah, which are crowded with displaced people, the most recent of which was the Israeli targeting of an aid truck in Deir al-Balah, in proof that The elements of war in the occupying state are continuing to invade the entire Gaza Strip, completely destroying it and turning it into a barren, unlivable land. They are continuing to annihilate our people, whether by killing, starvation, thirst, deprivation of medicines or treatments, or by bombing and destroying homes over the heads of their residents, as conclusive evidence of the occupation’s purposeful intentions and policy. To displace the population of the Gaza Strip.”