At least 19 Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces opened fire on a group of Palestinians at a humanitarian aid distribution point in the southern Gaza Strip, media reports said.
As a result of Israeli shelling of a group of people waiting for humanitarian aid distribution in western Rafah, 19 people were killed, the sources said.
On Monday, Gaza’s health ministry said that 75 people had been killed and more than 400 wounded in several similar Israeli attacks at humanitarian aid distribution points since the end of May.
In May, amid a significant escalation of hostilities, Israeli authorities announced a new plan to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the Gaza Strip. Under the plan, aid is being distributed in areas cleared of any presence by Hamas, whose members have previously been accused of looting humanitarian supplies, Al Jazeera reported.
The commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, previously said that Israel’s plan to resume humanitarian aid to Gaza was aimed at forcibly displacing the Palestinian enclave’s residents from the area.
