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RNZ News
24-06-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
Israel kills 40 in further Gaza bloodshed after reaching truce with Iran
Young Palestinians youths mourn by the body of a relative killed in Israeli fire at a food aid distribution point set up by the privately-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on the Salaheddin road, at Al-Awda hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 24 June, 2025. Photo: AFP / Eyad Baba By Nidal al-Mughrabi , Reuters Israeli forces killed at least 40 Palestinians in Gaza and ordered new evacuations, local medics and residents said, in further bloodshed shortly after Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire in their air war. The Israel-Iran deal announced by US President Donald Trump raised hopes among Palestinians of an end to over 20 months of war in Gaza that has widely demolished the territory and displaced most residents, with malnutrition widespread. "Enough! The whole universe has let us down. (Iran-backed Lebanese group) Hezbollah reached a deal without Gaza, and now Iran has done the same," said Adel Farouk, 62, from Gaza City. "We hope Gaza is next," he told Reuters via a chat app, speaking before two explosions rang out in Tehran, with Trump accusing both sides of violating the deal, though voicing particular unhappiness with Israel, rebuking it with an obscenity in an extraordinary outburst of frustration. In Gaza, deadly violence continued with little respite. Marwan Abu Naser, of the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat in central Gaza, said it had received 19 dead and 146 injured from crowds who tried to reach a nearby aid distribution centre of the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Abu Naser told Reuters the casualties resulted from gunfire. Israel's military said that a gathering overnight was identified adjacent to forces operating in Gaza's central Netzarim Corridor, and it was reviewing reports of casualties. Responding to a Reuters request for comment, the GHF said in an e-mail that there has been no incident near their aid site, which it added was located several kilometres south of the Netzarim Corridor. UN aid trucks entering Gaza also use area roads and Palestinians have in the past few days reported killings of people by Israeli fire as they waited at roadsides to grab bags of flour from the trucks. Israel has been channelling much of the aid it lets into Gaza through the GHF, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces. The United Nations rejects the GHF delivery system as inadequate, dangerous, and a violation of humanitarian impartiality rules. Israel says it is needed to prevent the Hamas militants it is fighting from diverting aid deliveries. The Palestinian Islamist group denies doing so. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations' Palestinian aid agency UNRWA, told reporters in Berlin on Tuesday that the new mechanism was an "abomination" and "a death trap". Separately, 10 other people were killed by an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, while 11 were killed by Israeli gunfire in the southern city of Khan Younis, medics said, raising the day's toll to at least 40. Israel says militants use built-up residential areas for operating cover. Hamas denies this. Palestinians said they wished the Israel-Iran ceasefire announced by Trump had applied to Gaza. Adding to their frustration, the Israeli military dropped leaflets over several areas in north Gaza ordering residents to leave their homes and head towards the south, in what appeared to herald renewed Israeli military strikes against Hamas. "Coming back to combat areas represents a risk to your lives," the army statement said. Sources close to Hamas told Reuters there had been some new efforts to resume ceasefire talks with Israel. They said Hamas was open to discussing any offers that would "end the war and secure Israel's withdrawal from Gaza". But these echoed longstanding Hamas conditions that Israel has always rejected. Hamas has said it is willing to free remaining hostages in Gaza under any deal to end the war, while Israel says it can only end if Hamas is disarmed and dismantled. Hamas refuses to lay down its arms. The war in Gaza was triggered when Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on 7 October, 2023, killing 1200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. Israel's subsequent air and ground war in Gaza has killed around 56,000 Palestinians, according to its Hamas-run health ministry, while displacing almost the entire population of more than 2 million and spreading a hunger crisis.
ABC News
24-06-2025
- Health
- ABC News
At least 40 Palestinians killed in single day as Gaza fighting continues
Israeli forces have issued new evacuation warnings for parts of Gaza after another day of bloodshed in which least 40 people were reported to have died. At least 19 of those killed were trying to reach an aid distribution site in the central Gazan city of Nuseirat, according to an official at a local hospital. Marwan Abu Naser, of the Al-Awda Hospital, said a further 146 people were injured by gunfire as crowds tried to reach the centre. Israel's military said that a gathering overnight was identified adjacent to forces operating in Gaza's central Netzarim Corridor, and it was reviewing reports of casualties. Aid distribution centres operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) have been the site of frequent violence in recent weeks. Responding to a Reuters request for comment, the GHF said in an e-mail that there has been no incident near their aid site, which it added was located several kilometres south of the Netzarim Corridor. Israel has been channelling much of the aid it lets into Gaza through the GHF, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces. The United Nations rejects the GHF delivery system as inadequate, dangerous, and a violation of humanitarian impartiality rules. Israel says it is needed to prevent the Hamas militants it is fighting from diverting aid deliveries. The Palestinian Islamist group denies doing so. Separately, 10 other people were killed by an Israeli air strike on a house in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City. A further 11 were killed by Israeli gunfire in the southern city of Khan Younis, medics said, raising the day's toll to at least 40. The outbreak of war between Israel and Iran has drawn global attention away from the ongoing situation in Gaza. The war erupted 20 months ago after Hamas-led militants raided Israel and took 251 hostages and killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, on October 7, 2023, Israel's single deadliest day. Israel's military campaign since then has killed nearly 56,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to health authorities in Gaza, and flattened much of the densely populated strip. Most of the population is displaced, and widespread malnutrition is a significant concern. Amid hopes of a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, some Palestinians expressed frustration a similar breakthrough had not occurred in Gaza. "Enough! The whole universe has let us down. (Iran-backed Lebanese group) Hezbollah reached a deal without Gaza, and now Iran has done the same," said Adel Farouk, 62, from Gaza City. "We hope Gaza is next," he told Reuters via a chat app. Israel's military said on Tuesday its focus was now returning to Gaza, returning the hostages and dismantling Hamas. Hamas has said it is willing to free remaining hostages in Gaza under any deal to end the war, while Israel says it can only end if Hamas is disarmed and dismantled. Hamas refuses to lay down its arms. Any sign of a truce between the two sides appeared unlikely, with the Israeli military dropping leaflets over several areas in north Gaza ordering residents to leave their homes and head towards the south. The leaflets appeared to herald renewed Israeli military strikes against Hamas. "Coming back to combat areas represents a risk to your lives," the army statement said. Reuters
UAE Moments
20-06-2025
- UAE Moments
Israel Kills 43 Palestinians, Including Those Getting Aid
Israeli attacks killed at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza, including 26 who were collecting aid, on Friday, June 20, according to the enclave's civil defence agency. Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp, north-east of Deir Al Balah in central Gaza, received 23 bodies after Israeli forces fired at the people gathering aid at the 'Martyrs' Junction' north of the camp. Dozens of people were injured in these attacks. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported the deaths of another 11 Palestinians after Israeli forces bombed a house in the Al Maaskar area, west of Deir Al Balah. Many people were injured in this attack as well. Israel continues to attack Palestinians collecting aid in Gaza; on Thursday, the Israeli forces killed at least 70 Palestinians in Gaza.
The National
20-06-2025
- Health
- The National
At least 26 Palestinians reported killed in Israeli attack while waiting for aid
At least 43 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza on Friday, including 26 who had gathered to collect aid, the Palestinian territory's civil defence agency said. Al Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp, north-east of Deir Al Balah in central Gaza, said it received 23 bodies after Israeli forces fired on people gathered to collect aid near the 'Martyrs' Junction' north of the camp, in addition to dozens of wounded. Medical sources from the Palestinian Red Crescent reported the deaths of another 11 Palestinians, and many others injured, after the Israeli military bombed a house in the Al Maaskar area, west of Deir Al Balah. The wounded were transferred to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city, they said. "Forty-three martyrs have fallen as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, 26 of whom were waiting for humanitarian aid," Mohammad Al-Mughayyir, director of medical supply at the civil defence agency, told AFP. Attacks on civilians collecting aid and continued strikes on populated areas are a daily occurrence in Gaza. On Thursday, at least 70 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire and military strikes, Gazan civil defence said, including 12 people who had been trying to approach an aid site operated by the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The system has been widely criticised. 'Palestinian lives have been so devalued. It is now the routine to shoot and kill desperate and starving people while they try to collect little food from a company made of mercenaries,' Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said in a post on Wednesday, after more than 300 Palestinians had been killed collecting aid since the start of GHF deliveries last month. The centres are regularly overrun by Gazans desperate for food after a nearly three-month total blockade of aid deliveries imposed by Israel in March. Crowds start gathering near the distribution sites before dawn, despite a warning from the Israeli military that these areas are considered combat zones between 6pm and 6am. The recently created GHF, whose four distribution centres are guarded by private security contractors and surrounded by Israeli forces, began deliveries to replace the aid delivery system operated by the UN. Since October, 2023, the Palestinian death toll from Israel's war in Gaza has passed 55,700, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, and the number injured has risen to more than 130,100. Israel's strikes and ground offensive followed a Hamas-led attack on Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed and about 250 abducted.
Yahoo
15-06-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Israeli fire kills 12 people in Gaza, medics say
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli fire and airstrikes killed at least 12 Palestinians on Sunday across the enclave, local health authorities said, at least five of them near two aid sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Medics at Al-Awda Hospital in the central Gaza Strip said at least three people were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire as they tried to approach a GHF site near the Netzarim corridor. Two others were killed en route to another aid site in Rafah in the south. An airstrike killed seven other people in Beit Lahiya town north of the enclave, medics said. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. The GHF began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May after Israel partially lifted a near three-month total blockade. Scores of Palestinians have been killed in near-daily mass shootings trying to reach the food. The United Nations rejects the Israeli-backed new distribution system as inadequate, dangerous, and a violation of humanitarian impartiality principles.
