Nearly 900 killed in Gaza trying to get food: UN
At least 875 Palestinians are confirmed killed while attempting to secure food from US-Israel-backed aid distribution sites since May, the United Nations says.
“As of 13 July, we have recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food; 674 of them were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites,” said Thameen al-Kheetan, a UN human rights office spokesperson.
The GHF is the US- and Israel-backed group that has bypassed UN-led humanitarian operations.
Al-Kheetan said the latest deadly incident happened on Monday, with reports indicating the Israeli army “shelled and fired towards Palestinians seeking food” at
the GHF site in al-Shakoush area, northwestern Rafah.
“Our teams on the ground … have spoken to survivors of these killings, these starving children included, who were shot at while on their way to pick up very little food,” said Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s director of communications.
Video shows shooting at crowded Gaza food collection site
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What do we know about proposed concentration camp in Rafah?
- Israel’s defence minister has said initially 600,000 Palestinians living in the coastal al-Mawasi area would be transferred to Rafah within 60 days of a ceasefire deal.
- He added that the entire civilian population of Gaza – more than two million people – will eventually be relocated to this southern city.
- He claimed that the plan would not be run by the Israeli army, but by international bodies, without specifying which organisations would be implementing it.
- A proposal seen by Reuters carries the name of the US-backed GHF, detailed plans for a “Humanitarian Transit Area” in which Gaza residents would “temporarily reside, deradicalise, re-integrate and prepare to relocate if they wish to do so”.
- An Al Jazeera investigation found that about 12,800 buildings were destroyed between early April and early July alone – a marked acceleration in demolitions that has coincided with Israel’s new push into Rafah launched in late March 2025.
- Critics say the plan would amount to the construction of concentration camps.
Israeli attack on Shati refugee camps kills 9
At least nine people have been killed and 25 others wounded after an Israeli attack on the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
Among the dead were five children, a hospital official told Al Jazeera.
At least 48 people have died in Israeli strikes throughout Gaza since dawn, including 38 in besieged Gaza City, medical sources say.
More than 30 wounded by Israeli gunfire at aid centre
At least 30 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli fire at an aid centre north of Rafah, in southern Gaza, in the latest attack on starving people desperate for food.
More than 5,600 people have been wounded by Israeli army and US contractor gunfire.
Two people killed near aid centre northwest of Rafah
At least two people have been killed by Israeli fire near an aid centre northwest of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, medical sources told our colleagues on the ground.
