Latest update June 20th, 2025 12:40 AM
Latest News
Israeli attacks kill at least 92 people including aid seekers in Gaza
At least 16 Palestinians waiting for food aid, and 13 others charging electrical devices, were killed by Israeli troops.
Women at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City embrace, while mourning loved ones during the funeral of Palestinian aid seekers killed by Israeli fire [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
Among those killed since dawn on Thursday, 64 were in Gaza City and the north and 16 others were waiting for aid assistance near the Netzarim Corridor, which splits north and south Gaza.
Starving Palestinians have gathered in the area daily to receive packages from the United States- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which the United Nations has condemned for its “weaponisation” of aid.
Bassam Abu Shaar, who witnessed the Israeli attack at the aid site, told the AFP news agency that people had gathered overnight in the hope of receiving food.
“Around 1am [22:00 GMT Wednesday], they started shooting at us. The gunfire intensified from tanks, aircraft and quadcopter bombs,” he told AFP by phone.
“We couldn’t help them or even escape ourselves,” he said, adding that the size of the crowd had made it impossible for people to flee Israeli fire near the Shuhada Junction.
In recent weeks, Israeli attacks on Palestinians attempting to receive food aid have increased, killing dozens of people.
Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum said the attacks on people at aid sites are becoming a “daily routine”.
“More than three months of full [Israeli] blockade on border crossings has turned Gaza into a hunger point where people have run out of all kinds of humanitarian supplies and now found themselves to be forced to move to these designated centres to get bags of flour, bottles of water and alongside food boxes that, according to nutritional experts, contain low nutritional value,” Azzoum explained.
“These attacks are still unfolding, turning all humanitarian corridors into killing grounds,” he said.
According to the Reuters news agency, the Israeli military claimed, without providing evidence, that there were attempts by “suspects” to approach forces in the area of Netzarim in a way that had endangered them.
The army added that forces fired warning shots to prevent suspects from approaching them, and it was currently unaware of injuries in the incident.
Separately, an Israeli drone attack on a makeshift tent where Palestinians were charging their electrical devices in Al Shati Refugee Camp, killed 13 people, while an Israeli aircraft also launched intensive air strikes and bombarded several homes in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said Israel’s attack on the charging point at the Al Shati camp came after “more than a-year-and-a-half” without electricity in the enclave.
At the same time, the attacks on aid distribution centres are a testament to the “deteriorating” situation in Gaza that has forced Palestinians to put “their lives at risk for food”, Khoudary added.
“Only a limited, very limited number of trucks coming in [to Gaza] every single day and people are very desperate; they’re being killed as they try to take whatever is on the trucks,” she added.
Over the past 24 hours, 69 bodies, including two that were recovered after an attack, and 221 wounded people were admitted to hospitals in the besieged enclave, medical sources said.
Since the war began in October 2023, at least 55,706 people have been killed and 130,101 wounded, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
The Unkindest Cut
Kaieteur News – Building a pre-election coalition is never easy. It takes more than meetings. It takes more than deals.... more
Antigua and Barbuda hosts the OAS at a crucial juncture for the Americas
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – The 55th Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organisation of American... more
Weekend Cartoon
