Israeli fire kills 41 more Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli fire and airstrikes killed at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, local health authorities said, at least eight of them near two aid sites operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
At least eight Palestinians were killed and dozens more wounded on Sunday in a shooting near Israeli- and US-supported food distribution points in the Gaza Strip, according to health officials.
Medics at Al Awda Hospital in the central Gaza Strip said at least three people were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire as they tried to approach a GHF site near the Netzarim corridor.
Two others were killed en route to another aid site in Rafah in the south.
A Palestinian man hold his wounded head after an Israeli strike on the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees. AFP
The Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Saturday that at least 300 people have so far been killed, and more than 2,600 wounded, near aid distribution sites since the GHF began operations in Gaza.
'These are not humanitarian aid, these are traps for the poor and the hungry under the watch of occupation planes,' said Munir Al Bursh, Director-General of the health ministry.
'Aid distributed under fire isn't aid, it is humiliation,' Bursh posted on X on Sunday.
An airstrike killed seven other people in Beit Lahiya town north of the enclave, medics said.
Palestinians try to reach a casualty in the rubble of a house targeted in an Israeli strike. AFP
In Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip, medics said an Israeli airstrike killed at least 11 people in a house. The rest were killed in separate airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip, they added.
The GHF began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May after Israel partially lifted a near three-month total blockade. Scores of Palestinians have been killed in near-daily mass shootings trying to reach the food.
The United Nations rejects the Israeli-backed new distribution system as inadequate, dangerous, and a violation of humanitarian impartiality principles.
Later on Sunday, COGAT, the Israeli military aid coordination agency, said that this week it had facilitated the entry of 292 trucks with humanitarian aid from the United Nations and the international community, including food and flour, into Gaza.
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