At least 40 Palestinians, 10 of whom were trying to obtain humanitarian aid, were killed in Israeli shelling and airstrikes in the Gaza Strip today, Reuters reported, citing Palestinian health authorities.
These people were killed in two separate incidents near humanitarian aid distribution points of the US-backed Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza (HFG) in the central and southern parts of the Palestinian territory, local medics reported.
According to the UN, over a thousand people have been killed while trying to receive humanitarian aid since the HGF began operating in May 2025. Most of them were shot by Israeli forces near the organization's checkpoints.
"Everyone who goes there comes back either with a sack of flour or brought (on a wooden stretcher) as a martyr or wounded. No one is safe," said Bilal Tari, a 40-year-old Palestinian who was among the mourners at Ash Shifa Hospital in Gaza City who gathered today to collect the bodies of their loved ones killed in Israeli shelling the day before.
At least 13 Palestinians were killed yesterday while waiting for UN aid trucks to arrive at the Zikim border crossing on the border with Israel in the northern Gaza Strip, authorities said.
Another five people died of hunger in the past 24 hours, amid warnings from aid groups that the enclave was at risk of mass starvation, Palestinian health authorities added. The new deaths bring the number of people who have died of hunger since the start of the war to 180, including 93 children.
UN agencies have said that airdropped food supplies are not enough and Israel must allow more humanitarian aid to enter by land, as well as quickly ease access to it.
The Israeli military agency KOGAT, which coordinates humanitarian aid deliveries, said that 1,200 trucks carrying more than 23,000 tons of food entered the Gaza Strip last week, but hundreds of the trucks have not yet been delivered to aid distribution centers by the United Nations and other international organizations.
They were killed in two separate incidents near humanitarian aid distribution points of the US-backed HFG in the central and southern parts of the territory, local medics said.
According to the UN, over a thousand people have been killed while trying to receive humanitarian aid since the HFG began operating in May 2025. Most of them were shot by Israeli forces near the organization's checkpoints.
"Everyone who goes there comes back either with a sack of flour or brought (on a wooden stretcher) as a martyr or wounded. No one is safe," said Bilal Tari, a 40-year-old Palestinian who was among the mourners at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City who gathered today to collect the bodies of their loved ones killed in Israeli shelling the day before.
At least 13 Palestinians were killed yesterday while waiting for UN aid trucks to arrive at the Zikim border crossing with Israel in the northern Gaza Strip, authorities said.
Another five people died of hunger in the past 24 hours, amid warnings from aid agencies that the enclave is at risk of mass starvation, Palestinian health authorities added. The new deaths bring the number of people who have died of hunger since the start of the war to 180, including 93 children.
UN agencies have said that airdropped food supplies are not enough and Israel must allow more humanitarian aid to enter by land, as well as quickly ease access to it.
The Israeli military agency KOGAT, which coordinates humanitarian aid deliveries, said that 1,200 trucks carrying more than 23,000 tons of food entered the Gaza Strip last week, but hundreds of the trucks have not yet been delivered to aid distribution centers by the United Nations and other international organizations.
