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Israeli shots and air strikes killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, most of them near a help site operated by the Gaza humanitarian foundation supported by the United States and Israeli in the center of the enclave, local health officials said.
Medical officials from the Hospitals of Shifa et al-Quds said that at least 25 people had been killed and dozens injured when approaching a food distribution center near the former Jewrim colony of Netzarim before dawn.
The Israeli army, which has been at war with Hamas activists since October 2023, said its forces had shot from the night towards a group of suspects while represented a threat to the troops in the region of the Netzarim corridor.
“This despite the warnings that the area is an active combat zone. FDI are aware of the reports concerning injured people; details are being examined,” he said.
Later Wednesday, health officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza said that at least 14 people had been killed by Israeli shots when they approached another GHF site in Rafah.
The Foundation said that he was not aware of Wednesday incidents, but added that he was working closely with the Israeli authorities to ensure that the safe passage routes are maintained and that it was essential for the Palestinians to follow the instructions closely.
“In the end, the solution is more help, which will create more certainty and less emergency among the population,” he said by e-mail in response to Reuters’ questions.
“There is not yet enough food to feed everyone in need in Gaza. Our current goal is to feed as many people as possible in the constraints of a very volatile environment.”
In a statement, GHF said that it had distributed 2.5 million meals on Wednesday, the largest delivery of a day since its start of operations, bearing more than 16 million the number of meals provided since the start of its operations in late May.
The Gaza Ministry of Health says that since then, 163 Palestinians had been killed and more than 1,000 injured while trying to obtain the food boxes.
The United Nations condemned the murders and refused to provide aid via the Foundation, which uses private entrepreneurs with an Israeli military safeguard in what they say to be a violation of humanitarian standards.
Elsewhere in Gaza on Wednesday, his Ministry of Health said that at least 11 other people had been killed by separate Israeli shots and strikes through the coastal enclave.
The war broke out 20 months ago after activists led by Hamas took 251 hostages and killed some 1,200 people on October 7, 2023, according to the Israeli authorities, during the deadly day in the country.
The military campaign of Israel has since killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians, according to health authorities in Gaza, and has flattened a large part of the densely populated band, which houses more than two million people. Most of the population is moved and malnutrition is widespread.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that there had been “significant progress” in efforts to make the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza, but that he was “too early” to raise hopes that an agreement would be concluded.
Two Hamas sources told Reuters that they knew no breakthrough in the negotiations.
