Razan was one of at least four children to succumb in the last three days, the youngest just three months. Over the past 24 hours, 18 deaths have been recorded due to famine in Gaza, the health ministry says, reflecting a deepening crisis in the territory.

The attack occurred after the Israeli military had told Palestinians to leave an area where many have sought refuge and warned that it may expand operations.

Amid escalating violence, the Israeli military issues new evacuation warnings in central Gaza, affecting aid distribution. Despite ongoing ceasefire talks, military activities persist, and humanitarian conditions worsen.

A surgeon working in southern Gaza says babies are arriving at hospital so malnourished that “skin and bones doesn’t do it justice.” He also describes what appears to be a disturbing pattern in the gunshot wounds of children arriving from food distribution sites.

They used stun grenades and pepper spray against us,” another survivor, Abdullah Aleyat, who was present at the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) compound on Wednesday morning, said from a hospital ward bed surrounded by the wounded.

The Israeli military on Sunday issued new evacuation orders for parts of central Gaza, one of the few regions where it has conducted limited

The formal statement was triggered when nine humanitarian groups pointed to the country’s incongruous response to Ukrainian children and Palestinian children.

Leaders from the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church visited Gaza’s only Catholic church on Friday, where a day earlier three people were killed in an Israeli strike.