As many as 72 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire across Gaza till Thursday morning, including 29 aid seekers who were waiting for food in Rafah city, said the Gaza health ministry the UN considers credible.
The latest incident of killing aid seekers in Gaza took place on Salah al-Din Street near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza. Besides 29 dead, 100 others were injured in the attack, they said.
Meanwhile, Israeli strikes across Gaza, which stretched to Thursday morning, killed eight people and left scores injured.
Eight more people were killed, and others injured, in Israeli strikes on tents of displaced people in al-Mawasi camp in Gaza’s south, medical sources told reporters. The victims included a woman and two children, the Palestinian news agency said.
The third strike took place on the Maghazi camp in central Gaza, where 10 people, including a husband, wife and children from a single family, were killed in the strike.
Hamas said in its statement, “The systematic abuse of innocent civilians, the escalation of massacres, the targeting of the starving, forced evictions, and the shrinking of areas the occupation claims are ‘safe’” amount to war crimes, the group said.
Israel’s attacks are “part of the brutal war of extermination that has been ongoing for nearly 20 months.”
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The controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began distributing a trickle of food aid in Gaza at the end of May after Israel partially lifted a nearly three-month total blockade on food, medicines and other essential items, leading to fears of famine for the population of 2.3 million.
No other aid, including the UN, has been allowed to enter Gaza by Israel as it keeps tight control over the corridors and keeps a complete blockade in place, which the UN described as a weaponisation of aid to kill more people in Gaza.
On Tuesday, Israeli troops killed at least 70 Palestinians and wounded hundreds as they sought aid in Gaza on the deadliest day of violence at the sites so far.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that 397 Palestinian aid seekers had been killed and more than 3,000 wounded since distribution resumed in late May.
The attacks come as Gaza’s Health Ministry said that the death toll had risen to 55,637, with 129,880 wounded since the conflict erupted in October 2023.
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