Gaza City, June 18 (EFE).—At least 130 Palestinians have been killed in the past two days across Gaza, including 75 shot dead while waiting for food aid, according to medical sources and the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The official news agency reported 104 people were killed the previous day by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.
Of the total, at least 75 died while waiting for food distribution near Khan Yunis, in Gaza City, or in other parts of the enclave.
On Wednesday morning, 11 Palestinians were killed near a distribution point in the militarized area of Netzarim, in central Gaza.
Health sources told EFE that chaos erupted when the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) opened the center around 2:25 a.m. local time, drawing thousands of desperate civilians.
Al Awda Hospital received 10 bodies and 70 injured from the incident, while Al Aqsa Hospital reported one death and another 30 injured.
On Tuesday, at least 54 Palestinians were killed and dozens more wounded east of Khan Yunis when Israeli forces opened fire on crowds waiting for aid trucks at the Al Tahliya crossing.
Eight more people were killed at a roundabout west of Rafah.
The head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Palestine, Jonathan Whittall, said Naser Hospital in Khan Yunis had been “overwhelmed” following the shootings. He made the remarks on X (formerly Twitter), without providing further details.
The Israeli military acknowledged Tuesday that it was aware of “reports of several people injured by the shooting of its troops” after a crowd approached a truck loaded with aid.
Separately, at least eight members of the Abu Sholola family, including seven children, were killed Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike on a residential building in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza, medical sources told EFE.
On Wednesday, a couple and their two children were killed in a bombing in the Zeitun neighborhood in northern Gaza City.
In a separate attack, 10 members of the al-Ghamri family, including children, were killed in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, Wafa reported.
Since Israel launched its military offensive on Gaza on October 7, 2023, nearly 55,500 people have been killed in the enclave.
Over 400 of those deaths occurred at humanitarian aid distribution points, many of which are located in militarized zones managed by US contractors. EFE
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