Israeli gunfire kills over a dozen Palestinians near Gaza aid site, health officials say

Thomson Reuters

· Posted: Jun 10, 2025 5:06 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Israeli gunfire killed astatine slightest 17 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others arsenic thousands of displaced radical approached an assistance organisation tract of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) successful cardinal Gaza connected Tuesday, section wellness authorities said.

Medics said the casualties were rushed to two hospitals, the Al-Awda Hospital successful Nuseirat campy successful cardinal Gaza, and the Al-Quds successful Gaza City, successful the north.

The Israeli subject said they are looking into the incident. Last week it warned Palestinians not to attack routes starring to GHF sites betwixt 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. section time, describing these roads arsenic closed subject zones.

There was nary contiguous GHF remark connected Tuesday's incident.

The GHF began distributing nutrient packages successful Gaza astatine the extremity of May, overseeing a caller exemplary of assistance distribution, which the United Nations says is neither impartial nor neutral.

"Day aft day, casualties & scores of injured are reported astatine organisation points manned by Israel & backstage information companies," Philippe Lazzarini, the main of the UN Palestinian exile bureau (UNRWA), wrote connected X.

"This humiliating strategy continues to unit thousands of bare & hopeless radical to locomotion for tens of miles excluding the astir susceptible & those surviving excessively far," helium said.

While the GHF has said determination person been nary incidents astatine its alleged unafraid organisation sites, Palestinians seeking assistance person described upset and entree routes to the sites person been beset by chaos and deadly violence.

"I went determination astatine 2 a.m. hoping to get immoderate food, connected my mode there, I saw radical returning empty-handed, they said assistance packages person tally retired successful 5 minutes, this is insane and isn't enough," said Mohammad Abu Amr, 40, a begetter of two.

"Dozens of thousands get from the cardinal areas and from the bluish areas too, immoderate of them walked for implicit 20 km, lone to travel backmost location with disappointment," helium told Reuters via a chat app. He said helium heard the firing but didn't spot what happened.

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Israel has repeatedly called for UNRWA to beryllium disbanded, accusing it of having ties with Hamas. UNRWA has denied this.

Separately, section wellness authorities said an Israeli onslaught connected a location successful Deir al-Balah successful central Gaza Strip killed 8 people, taking Tuesday's decease toll to astatine slightest 25.

The Israeli subject said it had intercepted 1 rocket fired from northern Gaza toward Israeli territories, which signalled Hamas and different militant groups remained capable to occurrence the weapons contempt Israeli devastation of their arsenal.

Israel allowed constricted UN-led operations to resume connected May 19 aft an 11-week blockade successful the enclave of 2.3 cardinal people, wherever experts person warned a famine looms. The UN has described the assistance allowed into Gaza arsenic "drop successful the ocean."

Witnesses said astatine slightest 40 trucks carrying flour for UN warehouses were looted by hopeless displaced Palestinians arsenic good arsenic thieves adjacent Nabulsi roundabout on the coastal roadworthy successful Gaza City.

The warfare erupted aft Hamas-led militants took 251 hostages and killed 1,200 people, astir of them civilians, successful the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, Israel's azygous deadliest day.

Israel's subject run has since killed much than 54,000 Palestinians, astir of them civilians, according to wellness authorities successful Gaza, and flattened overmuch of the coastal enclave.