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Israeli forces again kill starving aid seekers as they search for food
Gaza’s Civil Defence says Israeli troops shot dead at least 20 hungry Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others while they waited for food at a GHF distribution site.
Agency spokesman Mahmoud Basal said “20 martyrs and more than 200 wounded by occupation gunfire … were transferred to the Red Cross field hospital in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, then to Nasser Hospital” in Gaza’s south.
The desperate people had been waiting to reach the aid centre in Rafah, “when the occupation forces opened fire” near the al-Alam Roundabout.
The Israeli military said it’s checking the reports.
Gaza death toll surges from Israeli attacks
At least 68 bodies have been brought to Gaza’s hospitals over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry says. The data included two bodies of Palestinians killed in previous Israeli attacks and recovered from the rubble, it added.
Additionally, at least 182 people were injured in Israeli attacks over the same period.
The figures bring the number of people killed in the territory since the start of the war in October 2023 to 55,432, with at least 128,923 wounded. Israel has killed 5,139 Palestinians and injured 16,882 others since breaking a ceasefire with Hamas in March.
Death toll rises in latest Israeli shootings near Gaza food sites
At least 34 Palestinians have been gunned down near Israeli-and US-supported food aid distribution centres in southern Gaza, its Health Ministry says.
The toll was the deadliest single-day total yet in the near-daily shootings as thousands of Palestinians move through Israeli military-controlled areas to reach the food centres run by the private contractor, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Gaza’s Health Ministry said most of the dead were trying to reach the GHF centre near the southern city of Rafah although a few were on the roads to a newly opened hub on the outskirts of the nearby city of Khan Younis.
Two Palestinians trying to get food at the Rafah site, Heba Jouda and Mohammed Abed, said Israeli forces fired on crowds at about 4am at the Flag Roundabout – repeatedly the scene of mass shootings.
Palestinian health officials say scores of people have been killed and hundreds wounded since the GHF sites opened last month. Experts warned Israel’s ongoing war and restrictions on the entry of aid have put Gaza’s 2.3 million people at risk of famine.
