Gaza City, July 27 (RHC)-- Malnutrition cases are soaring across the Gaza Strip, where starving children are pouring into overwhelmed hospitals.  Earlier on Friday, the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City announced the death of Palestinian child Abdul Qader al-Fayoumi from malnutrition — the 115th starvation-related death since Israel reimposed its siege on Gaza in March.

Israeli attacks across Gaza killed at least 62 Palestinians on Thursday, 19 of them while trying to collect food from militarized aid sites run by the shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF. 

On Thursday, displaced Palestinian women in Rafah were directed by GHF to a women-only distribution section, where they were attacked with tear gas and pepper spray.

One woman survivor, Mervat al-Sakani, said: “The Americans said, 'Go, go,' so we went.  Then they said, 'No, leave.'  After a while, they started spraying pepper spray on us.  They burnt our faces and hands.  We went outside, and they distanced us further away, so we went away.  Five minutes later, they started throwing tear gas.  We were suffocating because of the gas.  Then they called on the tank from a distance.  They called on the microphone for the tank to come, and the quadcopter came, and everything was on us.”

[ SOURCE: DEMOCRACY NOW ]