Country: occupied Palestinian territory Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Please refer to the attached files. Palestinians in Gaza are starving to death. In the last few days, the Gaza Ministry of Health recorded 101 Palestinians who have reportedly died from malnutrition in Gaza, including 15 deaths within a 24-hour period. According to the information at hand, at least 80 of the 101 are children. Many more have presented at hospitals in a state of severe exhaustion caused by a lack of food. Others are collapsing in the streets. Many more may be dying unreported.The desperation caused by a lack of food and other necessities of life is forcing Palestinians to approach GHF sites and humanitarian convoys, even though between 27 May and 21 July, 1,054 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli military in Gaza while trying to access food. Of these, 766 were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites and 288 around UN and other aid convoys.These deaths and the horrendous physical and psychological suffering caused by hunger are the result of Israel’s interference with and militarisation of humanitarian assistance. They are the foreseeable and repeatedly foretold consequences of Israel’s closure, blockade and other unlawful impediments to the entry and distribution of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, which has left a severe lack of all humanitarian assistance, including food.The Israeli military must immediately stop shooting at people trying to get food. Firearms must never be used simply to disperse a crowd, even as a warning. Israel must also allow the entry of food and other humanitarian assistance needed to sustain the lives of Palestinians in Gaza in accordance with its obligations under international law and humanitarian principles. It must immediately lift its unlawful restrictions on the work of the UN and other humanitarian actors. Third States have the obligation to take concrete steps to ensure that Israel, the occupying power in Gaza, complies with its obligation to ensure that sufficient food and lifesaving necessities are provided to the population.ENDSFor more information and media requests, please contact:ohchr-opt-media@un.org