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Sky News
25-06-2025
- Health
- Sky News
At least 44 people killed after Israeli forces open fire near aid trucks in Gaza, witnesses say
At least 44 people have been killed after Israeli forces and drones opened fire on people waiting for aid in two separate incidents in Gaza, according to witnesses and hospital officials. In one of the incidents, witnesses told the Associated Press (AP) news agency that Israeli forces fired as people were advancing towards approaching aid trucks on a road south of Wadi Gaza in central Gaza. The Awda hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp, which treated some of the victims, confirmed 25 deaths and said another 146 people were wounded. Among them were 62 people in a critical condition, who were transferred to other hospitals, it added. 2:46 In the central town of Deir al-Balah, the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital said it received the bodies of six people who were killed in the same incident. "It was a massacre," witness Ahmed Halawa said. He said tanks and drones fired at people, "even as we were fleeing - many people were either martyred or wounded". Another witness, Hossam Abu Shahada, said drones were flying over the area. Then there was gunfire from tanks and drones, leaving a "chaotic and bloody" scene as people attempted to escape. He said he saw at least three people lying on the ground motionless and many others wounded as he fled. 3:59 In the other incident, in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, witnesses said Israeli troops started firing as thousands of Palestinians gathered at the Shakoush area, several hundred yards from another aid distribution site. At least 19 were killed and 50 others wounded, according to Nasser hospital and Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. Witness Ayman Abu Joda said he saw heavy gunfire from Israeli tanks and helped evacuate three wounded people, including one who had been hit in the chest. "It was the same tragedy every day: We seek food and the occupation opens fire and kills many," he said. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the reports. Gaza aid mechanism 'an abomination', says UN Food distribution sites in the region are run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an American contractor operating with support from the US and Israeli governments. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, described the aid delivery mechanism in Gaza as "an abomination that humiliates and degrades desperate people". He added: "It is a death trap, costing more lives than it saves." A spokesperson for the UN's Human Rights Office said: "The weaponisation of food for civilians, in addition to restricting or preventing their access to life-sustaining services, constitutes a war crime and, under certain circumstances, may constitute elements of other crimes under international law." Meanwhile, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said more than 56,000 Palestinians had now been killed during Israel's 21-month military operation in the territory. The ministry said more than half of the dead were women and children. It does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count. The latest conflict in Gaza began after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, when militants stormed across the border and killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took another 251 hostages. Many of the hostages have been released in ceasefire agreements.
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
CTV News
24-06-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Israeli forces fire on people waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 25, witnesses and hospitals say
Hamam Al-Farani sits next to his sister, in white, along with other family members as the body of their father Alaa, killed in an Israeli army strike that also injured the boy, is prepared for burial at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza early Tuesday, killing at least 25 people, Palestinian witnesses and hospitals said. Responding to an Associated Press inquiry, the military said it was reviewing reports of casualties from Israeli fire after a group of people approached troops in an area adjunct to the east-west Netzarim corridor, which bisects Gaza. The Awda hospital in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, which received the victims, said the Palestinians were waiting for the trucks on the Salah al-Din Road south of Wadi Gaza. Witnesses told The Associated Press that Israeli forces opened fire as people were advancing eastward to be close to the approaching trucks. 'It was a massacre,' said Ahmed Halawa. He said tanks and drones fired at people, 'even as we were fleeing. Many people were either martyred or wounded.' Hossam Abu Shahada, another eyewitness, said drones were flying over the area, watching the crowds first, then there was gunfire from tanks and drones as people were moving eastward. He described a 'chaotic and bloody' scene as people were attempting to escape. He said he saw at least three people lying on the ground motionless and many others wounded as he fled the site. The Awda hospital said another 146 Palestinians were wounded. Among them were 62 in critical condition, who were transferred to other hospitals in central Gaza, it said. In the central town of Deir al-Balah, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said it received the bodies of six people who were killed in the same incident. Palestinian witnesses and health officials say Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire on crowds seeking desperately needed food, killing hundreds of people in recent weeks. The military says it has fired warning shots at people it said approached its forces in a suspicious manner. The deaths were the latest in Israel-Hamas war in Gaza which killed about 56,000 Palestinians, according to the strip's health ministry. The ministry doesn't distinguish between civilians and combatants but say more than a half of the dead were women and children. Israel launched its campaign in Gaza after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took another 251 hostages. Most of the hostages were released by ceasefire agreements. Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, The Associated Press
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
At least 25 people killed after Israeli forces open fire near aid trucks in Gaza, witnesses say
At least 25 people have been killed after Israeli forces opened fire towards people waiting for aid trucks in Gaza, according to witnesses and hospitals. The Awda hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp, which received the victims, said the Palestinians were waiting for the trucks on a road south of Wadi Gaza. Witnesses told The Associated Press (AP) news agency Israeli forces opened fire as people were advancing to be close to the approaching trucks. Israel-Iran live updates: The Awda hospital said another 146 Palestinians were wounded. Among them were 62 in critical condition, who were transferred to other hospitals in central Gaza, it said. In the central town of Deir al-Balah, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said it received the bodies of six people who were killed in the same incident. "It was a massacre," one witness, Ahmed Halawa, said. He said tanks and drones fired at people, "even as we were fleeing. Many people were either martyred or wounded." Another witness, Hossam Abu Shahada, said drones were flying over the area, watching the crowds, and then there was gunfire from tanks and drones, leaving a "chaotic and bloody" scene as people attempted to escape. He said he saw at least three people lying on the ground motionless and many others wounded as he fled. The Israeli military did not immediately comment. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the latest version. You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the Sky News app. You can also follow us on WhatsApp and subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with the latest news.
