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BBC News
6 hours ago
- Politics
- BBC News
Israeli military kills 23 Palestinians near aid site in Gaza, witnesses and medics say
Israeli forces have killed 23 Palestinians after opening fire on crowds who had gathered near an aid distribution site, witnesses and medics and drones fired at thousands of people near an aid distribution centre in central Gaza run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the witnesses and medics said.A spokesperson for al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat confirmed that 23 bodies and more than 100 wounded people had been brought there. Images from the hospital showed bodies on the was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed in similar incidents since late May. That is when the GHF took over most aid distribution in Gaza in an attempt by Israel to bypass the UN as the main supplier of move followed a complete three-month Israeli blockade during which no food entered the territory, putting the entire population at critical risk of famine according to a UN-backed almost all incidents, witnesses have said that Israeli troops opened fire, although there have also been reports of local armed gunmen shooting at people. On Thursday, at least 12 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while waiting for aid, according to rescuers and medics. The GHF denied there were any incidents near its site. The Israeli military told Reuters that "suspects" had attempted to approach forces in the area of Netzarim, and that soldiers had fired warning shots. It said it was unaware of any Tuesday witnesses said Israeli forces opened fire and shelled an area near a junction to the east of Khan Younis, where thousands of Palestinians had been gathering in the hope of getting flour from a World Food Programme (WFP) site, which also includes a community kitchen nearby. More than 50 people were killed. The Israeli military said "a gathering" had been identified "in proximity to IDF troops operating in the area" and the incident was under a separate Israeli attack on Friday, a medic with the Palestinian Red Crescent told the BBC that 11 Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a home in the al-Ma'sar area west of Deir al-Balah in central said Israeli warplanes struck a two-storey house belonging to the Ayash civil defence officials say Israel has carried out a wave of deadly air strikes on Gaza in recent days, following a brief lull in air operations that coincided with the escalation between Israel and reported on Thursday that at least 77 Palestinians had been killed in such strikes, which heavily targeted the Shati area in western Gaza City. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli drones fired three missiles at tents and a gathering of civilians near the camp's central market, killing 23 people, including children. Videos circulated on social media showed bodies lying on the ground, among them two children, as people attempted to extinguish sources speculated that the renewed strikes may be linked to the targeting of Hamas security elements who have recently re-emerged across parts of Gaza, attempting to reassert control amid a breakdown in law and order. These movements appear to have been timed with the temporary easing of Israeli aerial surveillance due to the simultaneous military focus on Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken least 55,706 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including more than 15,000 children, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
The National
7 hours ago
- Health
- The National
At least 23 Palestinians reported killed in Israeli attack while waiting for aid
At least 34 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in two Israeli attacks on Friday morning in different parts of the Gaza strip, Palestinian news agency Wafa said. Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp, north-east of Deir Al Balah in central Gaza, said it received 23 bodies, in addition to dozens of wounded, after Israeli forces fired on people gathered to collect aid near 'Martyrs' Junction', north of the camp. Medical sources from the Palestinian Red Crescent reported the deaths of another 11 Palestinians, and many others injured, after the Israeli military bombed a house in the Al Maaskar area, west of Deir Al Balah. The wounded were transferred to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city, they said. Attacks on civilians collecting aid and continued strikes on populated areas are a daily occurrence in Gaza. On Thursday, at least 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire and military strikes, Gazan civil defence said, including 12 people who had been trying to approach an aid site operated by the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The system has been widely criticised. 'Palestinian lives have been so devalued. It is now the routine to shoot and kill desperate and starving people while they try to collect little food from a company made of mercenaries,' Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said in a post on Wednesday, after more than 300 Palestinians had been killed collecting aid since the start of GHF deliveries last month. The centres are regularly overrun by Gazans desperate for food after a nearly three-month total blockade of aid deliveries imposed by Israel in March. Crowds start gathering near the distribution sites before dawn, despite a warning from the Israeli military that these areas are considered combat zones between 6pm and 6am. The recently created GHF, whose four distribution centres are guarded by private security contractors and surrounded by Israeli forces, began deliveries to replace the aid delivery system operated by the UN. Since October, 2023, the Palestinian death toll from Israel's war in Gaza has passed 55,700, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, and the number injured has risen to more than 130,100. Israel's strikes and ground offensive followed a Hamas-led attack on Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed and about 250 abducted.
Irish Times
a day ago
- Irish Times
‘We are being slaughtered': Gazans risk their lives on desperate journeys for food
Like thousands of other Palestinians in Gaza , Hind Al-Nawajha takes a dangerous, miles-long journey every day to try to get some food for her family, hoping she makes it back alive. Accompanied by her sister, Mazouza, the mother of four ducked down and hid behind a pile of rubble on the roadside as gunshots echoed nearby. 'You either come back carrying [food] for your children and they will be happy, or you come back in a shroud, or you go back upset [without food] and your children will cry,' said the 38-year-old, a resident of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. 'This is life, we are being slaughtered, we can't do it any more.' READ MORE In the past two days, dozens of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire as they tried to get food from aid trucks brought into the enclave by the United Nations (UN) and international relief agencies, Gaza-based medics said. On Thursday, medics said at least 51 people were killed by Israeli gunfire and military strikes, including 12 people who tried to approach a site operated by the US - and Israeli -backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the central Gaza Strip, the latest in near-daily reports of people being killed while seeking food. Palestinian children gather at a hot meal distribution point in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip. Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images The Israeli military said there were several attempts by 'suspects' to approach its forces in the Netzarim area in the central Gaza Strip in a manner that endangered them. It said forces fired warning shots to prevent suspects from approaching them and it was currently unaware of injuries in the incident. In an email, GHF criticised Gazan health officials, accusing them of regularly releasing inaccurate information. It said Palestinians do not access the nearby GHF site via the Netzarim corridor, but it did not address questions about whether it was aware that such an incident had occurred. Thirty-nine people were killed, meanwhile, in separate Israeli air strikes in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said. One of those strikes killed at least 19 people, including women and children, in a tent in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, they added. [ Gaza's last hospitals battle to save patients amid severe depletion of life-saving medical items Opens in new window ] Another strike killed at least 14 people and damaged several houses in Jabalia, in the north of the enclave, medics said. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army on those attacks. In recent days, the Israeli military said its forces had opened fire and used warning shots to disperse people who it said posed a threat when approaching areas where troops were operating. It said it was reviewing reports of civilian casualties. Israel has been channelling much of the aid it is now allowing into Gaza through the GHF, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces. A plume of smoke billows in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip after an Israeli air strike on Thursday. Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images The Gaza health ministry says hundreds of Palestinians have been killed trying to reach GHF sites since late May. The UN rejects the GHF delivery system as inadequate, dangerous and a violation of humanitarian impartiality rules. Israel says it is needed to prevent Hamas fighters from diverting aid, an allegation Hamas denies. The GHF said in a statement on Wednesday that it had distributed three million meals across three of its aid sites without incident. The Gaza war was triggered when Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7th, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. [ I showed my friends in Israel this photo of a starving baby in Gaza and asked them if they knew Opens in new window ] Israel's subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed nearly 55,600 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, while displacing almost the entire population of more than 2 million and causing a hunger crisis. The Norwegian Refugee Council warned on Thursday that more than one million people were without adequate shelter, saying equipment such as tents and tarpaulins had been blocked by Israel from entering since March 1st. Nawajha returned empty-handed on Wednesday from her journey to find food, flopping down exhausted on the dusty ground outside the tent in Gaza City where she has been sheltering with her family for the past 20 days. They say they try to force their way into the distribution site when trucks carrying aid arrive, but are often outmuscled by men, who sometimes fight over sacks of flour coming off UN trucks. '[When] there is no food, as you can see, children start crying and getting angry,' said Nawajha. 'When we are for three, four kilometres or more on our legs ... Oh my ... our feet are bruised and our shoes are torn off.' – Reuters
BBC News
2 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Gaza: Eleven killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid, rescuers say
Eleven Palestinians seeking aid were among at least 33 killed by Israeli gunfire and strikes across Gaza on Wednesday, rescuers and medics say.A spokesman for the Hamas-run civil defence agency said Israeli forces "opened fire and launched several shells" at thousands of people who were queuing for desperately needed food supplies on the main Salah al-Din Israeli military said troops operating in the Nuseirat area fired warning shots overnight after a group approached them in a manner that posed a potential threat, but that it was unaware of any 19 people were killed in three Israeli air strikes in northern and southern Gaza, according to the civil defence agency. They included eight who died when a home was hit in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City, it the air strikes, the Israeli military said it was "operating to dismantle Hamas military capabilities" in the territory. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said on Wednesday afternoon that at least 140 people had been killed over the previous 24 ministry reported on Tuesday that 51 people were killed while waiting for aid in the southern city of Khan Younis, while the UN cited partner organisations working on health as putting the death toll at more than told the BBC that Israeli tanks and drones opened fire as crowds gathered near a charity community centre and a warehouse belonging to the UN's World Food Israeli military acknowledged that its troops were in the area and said the details of the incident were under a separate incident on Tuesday, the civil defence agency said another seven people seeking aid were killed and many others were injured on Rashid Street north-west of Gaza City.A doctor at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City told Reuters news agency that the fatalities were the result of Israeli air strikes and that the injuries were caused by Fida Masoud said her son "went to bring a bag of flour and came back [injured] in a bag".Meanwhile, a local journalist posted footage that he said showed his cousin celebrating after collecting a bag of flour for his family."A 50kg bag. I pulled it out from under the truck, inches from death," he declares. Almost 400 people have been killed while trying to get aid since 26 May, when the Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) opened the first of its three distribution centre, according to the health GHF, which uses US private security contractors, aims to bypass the UN as the main supplier of aid to the 2.1 million Palestinians in UN and other aid groups refuse to co-operate with the new system, saying it contravenes the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality, and also warn that Gaza's population faces catastrophic levels of hunger after an 11-week total Israeli blockade that was partially eased a month US and Israel say GHF's system will prevent aid being stolen by Hamas, which the group denies Wednesday, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) condemned it as "lame, medieval and lethal"."Inviting starving people to their death is a war crime. Those responsible of this system must be held accountable," Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X."This is a disgrace and a stain on our collective consciousness." The GHF has not commented, but it said in a statement that it had so far distributed 30 million meals across its three distribution centres "without incident"."We remain focused on a singular mission: to feed the people of Gaza - and we are committed to scaling our efforts to reach even more in need," it WFP meanwhile warned that the 9,000 tonnes of food aid it had dispatched over the past four weeks was "a tiny fraction" of what was needed in also said the desperate need for food was causing large crowds to gather along well-known transport routes, hoping to intercept and access humanitarian supplies while in transit."Only a massive scale-up in food distributions can stabilize the situation, calm anxieties and rebuild the trust within communities that more food is coming," it military body Cogat reported that 85 lorry loads of aid entered southern and northern Gaza via the Kerem Shalom and Erez West crossings on Tuesday, 66 of which were collected. Another 380 lorry loads of aid were waiting for collection by the UN, it Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken least 55,637 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's health ministry.
Days of Palestine
6 days ago
- Politics
- Days of Palestine
Israeli Genocide and Starvation Campaign Against Gaza Enters 617th Day
DaysofPal –The Israeli occupation continues its devastating war on the Gaza Strip for the 617th consecutive day, marked by relentless aerial and ground attacks. These sustained assaults have led to thousands of civilian deaths and injuries, reinforcing accusations of an ongoing campaign of genocide. For the fifth day in a row, Gaza remains under a complete communications and internet blackout. Palestinian telecommunications crews have been blocked from reaching damaged areas, preventing vital maintenance and cutting off the population from the outside world. According to the latest data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, since March 18, 2025, Israeli aggression has killed 4,924 Palestinians and injured 15,780 others. This raises the cumulative toll since October 7, 2023, to at least 55,207 martyrs and 127,821 injured civilians. Palestine Online field reporters documented a series of Israeli strikes across the besieged enclave in recent hours: Nuseirat : Al-Awda Hospital confirmed the deaths of eight civilians and injuries to at least 125 more after Israeli aircraft bombed a crowd waiting for aid near the so-called 'Netzarim checkpoint.' Gaza City : Israeli naval forces opened heavy fire on Palestinians gathered for humanitarian aid near Al-Nabulsi roundabout, killing and injuring multiple civilians. Al-Tuffah Neighborhood : Israeli artillery shelled residential zones in eastern Gaza City, while simultaneous gunfire targeted tents housing displaced people in the Asdaa area, north of Khan Younis. Northwestern Gaza City : Civil defense teams reported the deaths of four displaced civilians and injuries to others after Israeli naval shelling struck tents near Al-Khaldi Mosque. Jabalia al-Balad, Northern Gaza: An Israeli airstrike targeted the home of the Dabbour family, wounding several residents. The escalation comes amid a worsening humanitarian catastrophe. Aid routes remain unreliable, distribution is routinely attacked, and starvation continues to spread across the Strip, particularly among children. These attacks on civilians — many of whom were simply waiting for food — are seen as part of a calculated policy of using siege, hunger, and terror as weapons of war. International condemnation continues to grow, but no meaningful accountability has yet been enforced. The prolonged assault on Gaza raises urgent questions about the role of global actors in enabling these atrocities, especially as communications blackouts hide many of the crimes being committed in real-time. Shortlink for this post:
