At least 40 Palestinians, 10 of whom were trying to get humanitarian aid, were killed in Israeli shelling and airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Reuters reported, citing Palestinian health authorities, BTA reported.
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 UN information, more than a thousand people have been killed while trying to get humanitarian aid since the HFG began operating in May 2025. Most of them were shot dead by Israeli forces near UN checkpoints.
“Everyone who goes there comes back either with a sack of flour or is carried (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 have 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 death toll from starvation 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 and 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 had not yet been delivered to distribution centers by the United Nations and other international organizations.
They were killed in two separate incidents near U.S.-backed Gaza Strip aid distribution points in the central and southern parts of the territory, local medics said.
According to the UN, more than a thousand people have 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 returns either with a sack of flour or is 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 relatives 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 have 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 from 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 and 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 distribution centers by the UN and other international organizations.