Over 35 killed today in Israeli attacks near aid points in Gaza

At least 35 Palestinians were killed on Friday, July 4, in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli airstrikes and gunfire near aid distribution areas, local hospital sources reported .

According to the Nasser Hospital morgue, 15 people, including eight women and a child, were killed in airstrikes carried out early this morning. Meanwhile, 20 others were shot dead while waiting for humanitarian aid. Two of them died near distribution points in Rafah, while the others were waiting for aid trucks in southern Gaza.

The Red Cross also announced that a field hospital worker in Rafah was injured by a stray bullet, while two members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society were injured earlier in the day while carrying out their duties in the same area.

"This event is unacceptable and reinforces the risk that civilians, medical staff and patients in Gaza face every day,"  the organization said in a statement.

The Israeli army announced on Friday afternoon that it would carry out attacks on certain neighborhoods of the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza and warned residents to move west.

The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said on Friday that it had documented at least 613 killings near aid points or aid convoys. OHCHR spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said the figures were up to June 27 and that additional incidents had been recorded since then.

According to UN figures, 509 of the victims were killed near aid points run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US-backed organisation. However, the GHF has denied the accuracy of these figures, describing them as based on sources from the “Hamas-controlled Health Ministry” and calling them an attempt to discredit it.

The GHF says it has distributed over 60 million meals over the past five weeks "safely and without interference," while other humanitarian organizations have faced looting and interruptions in aid, it said.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has confirmed that there have also been cases of violence against aid truck drivers and episodes of violent looting, which it has described as unacceptable.

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