Doctor who lost 9 of 10 children in Israeli attack dies in hospital
Hamdi al-Najjar, who was wounded in the Israeli air attack that killed his children, has died of his wounds. Al-Najjar spent days in intensive care. His 11-year-old son is the sole survivor of the attack.
His wife, Alaa al-Najjar, who is also a doctor, left hours before Israel struck their home to go to work.
Israeli forces kill 14 Palestinians at US-backed aid site in south Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have opened fire near an aid site run by a US-backed group in Rafah, killing at least 14 Palestinians.
More than 50 others were wounded.
Death toll at south Gaza aid site rises to 22
We are following an Israeli attack on a group of young Palestinian men near an aid distribution point run by the US-backed group in Rafah. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic say the toll has now risen from 14 to 22.
The number of those wounded has also risen to 115.
US-Israeli aid sites in Gaza are ‘mass death traps, not humanitarian relief points’
The Government Media Office in Gaza has issued a statement confirming Israel’s killing of at least 22 people and wounding of 115 others at a US-backed aid site in Rafah, and said the toll is likely to rise.
It also said the latest killings have taken the toll at such sites to at least 39 in less than a week. More than 220 people have also been wounded. It said the killings “reflect the nature of these areas as mass death traps, not humanitarian relief points”.
It added: “We confirm to the entire world that what is happening is a systematic and malicious use of aid as a tool of war, employed to blackmail starving civilians and forcibly gather them in exposed killing points, managed and monitored by the occupation army and funded and politically covered by the occupation and the US administration, which bears full moral and legal responsibility for these crimes.”
Palestinians receive aid supplies from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in the central Gaza Strip, May 29
Death toll at US-backed aid site rises to 30
We are following an Israeli attack on Palestinians gathered near an aid distribution point set up by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah. Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic say the death toll has risen from 22 to 30 and that at least 120 people have been wounded.
