Israel begins a limited pause in fighting in 3 Gaza areas as concerns over hunger mount

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By WAFAA SHURAFA, TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY
Updated 7:55 AM CDT, July 27, 2025

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military on Sunday began a limited pause in fighting in three populated areas of Gaza for 10 hours a day, part of a series of steps that included multiple airdrops as concerns over surging hunger in the territory mount and Israel faces a wave of international criticism over its conduct in the 21-month war.

The military said it would begin a daily “tactical pause” in Gaza City, Deir al-Balah and Muwasi, three areas of the territory with large populations, to “increase the scale of humanitarian aid” entering the territory. The pause was running from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. local time and was to be repeated each day until further notice.

In a sign of how precarious the situation remained for people in Gaza, shortly after the pause began, Gaza health officials said an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in Gaza City killed a woman and her four children. A second strike killed four people, including a young boy, his mother and his grandfather, in the eastern Zaytoun neighborhood, health officials said.

Food experts have warned for months of the risk of famine in Gaza, where Israel has restricted aid because it says Hamas siphons off goods to help bolster its rule, without providing evidence for that claim.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-israel-pause-hunger-9752f9dbdbb1b85aac515ffe3e859216

[Bayard]

1. I seriously doubt there's any, "fighting,"

There is only the bombing of starving people off the face of the Earth.

[womanofthehills]

2. From the videos online today -

Looks like more killing than usual. (The video is too graphic- showing dead - so it would be flagged so I can’t post it)

From X - Drop site news

🔴 REPORT | Total Carnage in Gaza Today: Aid-Seekers, Children Murdered as Starvation Deepens

At least 60 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza on Sunday, as Israeli soldiers shot dead 28 people seeking food near aid sites and injured more than 300.

Al Aqsa Hospital reported clusters of head and eye injuries among young boys seeking aid at the GHF site who appeared to have been deliberately targeted. A medical source at Al Aqsa Hospital told Drop Site that “almost 200 injured, from minor to severe, arrived at the hospital—roughly 100 of them with injuries to the head or eyes, mostly from direct gunshot wounds.”

The pattern echoes what British surgeon Nick Maynard previously described as a “game” Israeli soldiers play, targeting different body parts of Palestinians on different days.

BREAKDOWN OF ISRAELI ATTACKS

▪️ GHF Massacre – Wadi Gaza: Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat received 13 bodies, including 4 children and a woman, and 113 wounded after Israeli forces opened fire near the GHF aid point on Salah al-Din Street in central Gaza. Al-Aqsa Hospital treated victims with cluster of head and eye injuries from the same incident. 5 were brought dead and over 200 injuries.

▪️Aid Massacre - Zikim Crossing (North): 7 shot and killed seeking aid. The dead and injured arrived at the Hamad EMS point before being transferred to Gaza City hospitals.

▪️ Widespread Attacks on Civilian Areas Across Gaza — Al-Arabi TV’s Islam Bader reports:
➤ 7 killed in bombing of tents in Al-Mawasi — an area designated by Israel for a “humanitarian pause”
➤ 4 killed when a tent was struck in Deir al-Balah
➤ 1 killed in a strike on Al-Tuffah
➤ 5 killed in Al-Rimal, Gaza City, including a woman and her four children — also inside a so-called “humanitarian pause” zone
➤ 1 killed near Al-Shama Mosque in Al-Zeitoun
➤ 4 killed near Al-Zeitoun Clinic
➤ 3 bodies recovered at the Indonesian Hospital in North Gaza

▪️Humanitarian coordinator Eyad Amawi says no aid trucks entered Gaza from the south today, despite Israeli claims of new corridors. Gaza Civil Defense reports only about 10 trucks entered from the north—reiterating how extremely limited aid access remains, even as 6 Palestinians, including children, starved to death in the past 24 hours.

🎥 VIDEO: Palestinians seeking aid near GHF site in central Gaza earlier today

[AloeVera]

3. Awful. Thisvis what Israel calls a "tactical pause"?

So only 10 aid trucks entered. COGAT will now claim 500 trucks entered today!! But UN refuses to pick them up! There is no limit!

[snot]

4. "Fighting"?

I think "slaughter"'s the word.

[cliffside]

5. Fighting for food ...

Many are now so weak and have no homes left, if offered the chance to relocate, they might just do so.

Mission accomplished.

[myohmy2]

6. at the end of this...

...there should be a Nuremberg style tribunal waiting for the current crop of Israeli leaders...

...if not, then I'm thinking all that high and mighty historical talk was just bullshit...

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