resulted in 800 people killed in six weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\nWitnesses who spoke to Reuters described people being shot in the head and torso. Reuters saw several bodies of victims wrapped in white shrouds as family members wept at Nasser hospital.<\/p>\n
A man hugs the body of a dead loved one at Nasser hospital after an Israeli attack on the al-Mawasi area in Gaza on Sunday. Photograph: Anadolu\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Red Cross said its field hospital saw its largest influx of dead in more than a year of operation after the shootings, and that the overwhelming majority of the more than 100 people hurt had gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s military said it fired warning shots towards people it said were behaving suspiciously to prevent them from approaching. It said it was not aware of any casualties. The GHF said no incident occurred near its sites.<\/p>\n
Israeli airstrikes in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza meanwhile killed 13 Palestinians including four children, officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said. Fifteen others were killed in Khan Younis in the south, according to Nasser hospital. Israel\u2019s military did not immediately respond to a request for comment, Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n
Intense airstrikes continued on Saturday evening in the area of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.<\/p>\n
The 21-month war has left much of Gaza\u2019s population of more than 2 million reliant on outside aid while food security experts warn of famine. Israel blocked and then restricted aid entry after breaking the latest ceasefire in March.<\/p>\n
Palestinians are brought to al-Ahli Baptist hospital for medical treatment after an Israeli attack on al-Zaitun neighbourhood in Gaza City on Sunday. Photograph: Anadolu\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cAll responsive individuals reported they were attempting to access food distribution sites,\u201d the Red Cross said after the shootings near Rafah, noting the \u201calarming frequency and scale\u201d of such mass casualty incidents.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were sitting there, and suddenly there was shooting towards us. For five minutes we were trapped under fire. The shooting was targeted. It was not random. Some people were shot in the head, some in the torso, one guy next to me was shot directly in the heart,\u201d eyewitness Mahmoud Makram told Reuters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no mercy there, no mercy. People go because they are hungry but they die and come back in body bags.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abdullah al-Haddad told Associated Press he was 200 metres from the aid distribution site run by the GHF close to the Shakoush area when an Israeli tank started firing at crowds of Palestinians.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were together, and they shot us at once,\u201d he said, writhing in pain from a leg wound at Nasser hospital.<\/p>\n
Mohammed Jamal al-Sahloo, another witness, said Israel\u2019s military had ordered them to proceed to the site when the shooting started.<\/p>\n
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Palestinians mourn people killed while waiting for food near Rafah aid centre \u2013 video <\/p>\n
The indirect talks over a US proposal for a 60-day ceasefire continued throughout Saturday, an Israeli official told Reuters, seven days since talks began. US president Donald Trump has said he hoped for a breakthrough soon based on a new US-backed ceasefire proposal.<\/p>\n
One Palestinian source told Agence France-Presse that Israel\u2019s refusal to accept Hamas\u2019s demand for a complete withdrawal of troops from Gaza was holding back progress in the talks.<\/p>\n
A second source said mediators had asked both sides to postpone discussions until Trump\u2019s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, arrives in the Qatari capital.<\/p>\n
\u201cHamas\u2019s delegation will not accept the Israeli maps \u2026 as they essentially legitimise the reoccupation of approximately half of the Gaza Strip and turn Gaza into isolated zones with no crossings or freedom of movement,\u201d the first source said.<\/p>\n
A senior Israeli political official claimed later that it was Hamas that rejected what was on the table, accusing the group of \u201ccreating obstacles\u201d and \u201crefusing to compromise\u201d with the aim of \u201csabotaging the negotiations\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people in their 7 October 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the war and abducted 251. Hamas still holds some 50 hostages, with at least 20 believed to remain alive.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 57,800 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza\u2019s health ministry. The UN and other international organisations see its figures as the most reliable statistics on war casualties. It does not include the thousands thought to be buried under the rubble or those who have died of the indirect consequences of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks while trying to get food aid in Gaza on Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-261116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114844989220835106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}