Israel kills at least 79 people in Gaza, many at US-backed aid site: Medics | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli air shots and air strikes have killed at least 79 Palestinians through the Gaza Strip, a number of them near a help distribution site operated by the United States and to support Israel Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), according to local health authorities, the last dead of people who are desperately looking for food for their hungry families.

Doctors in the Al-Awda et al-Aqsa hospitals of the Central Gaza, where most of the victims were moved, said that at least 15 people were killed on Saturday when they were trying to approach the GHF aid distribution site near the so-called Netzarim Corridor.

The others were killed during separate attacks through the besieged and bombed enclave, they added. Since the GHF began its operations last month, at least 274 people were killed and more than 2,000 distribution sites near the aid, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The GHF said they were closed on Saturday. But witnesses said that thousands of people had gathered near the sites, desperate for food, because the blockade and the punishing military campaign of Israel led the territory to the edge of the famine.

‘Executive sites’

Tareq Abu Azzoum of Al Jazeera, reported by Deir El-Balah, said that the Palestinians are starting to see GHF’s ​​distribution centers as “execution sites”, given the repeated attacks there. But the people of Gaza “have no more options, and they are forced to go to these dangerous humanitarian spaces to get help”.

Israel imposed a complete humanitarian blockade in Gaza on March 2 for 11 weeks, cutting food, medical supplies and other aid.

It began to allow small amounts of enclave aid at the end of May after international pressure, but humanitarian organizations say that it is only a tiny fraction of the necessary aid.

There was no immediate comments from the Israeli army or the GHF on Saturday incidents.

GHF – An organization supported by the United States and Israel led by Johnnie Moore, an evangelical Christian who advised the presidential campaign of the American president Donald Trump – began to distribute food plans in Gaza on May 27, supervising a new model of aid distribution which, according to the United Nations Neither impartial nor neutral.

Israel and the United States say that the new system is intended to replace the unmanaged network. They accused Hamas, without providing evidence, siphoning unprecedented aid and put it back to finance its military activities.

Israel also admitted support armed gangs In Gaza, known for its criminal activities, to undermine Hamas. These groups were blamed for a looting of help.

UN officials deny Hamas have diverted significant amounts of aid and said the new system is unable to meet assembly needs. They say that he militarized help by allowing Israel to decide who has access and forcing the Palestinians to travel long distances or to move again after waves of travel.

Later on Saturday, the Israeli army ordered residents of Khan Younis and the neighboring cities of Abasan and Bani Suheila in the South Gaza Strip to leave their homes and head to the west towards the so -called humanitarian area, saying that it would work with force against “terroral organizations” in the region.

Over 80% of the Gaza Strip is now in the Israeli-militarized area, under forced displacement orders, or where these horses, according to to the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA). The UN estimates That nearly 665,000 people have been moved again since Israel broke the ceasefire in February.

The War of Israel against Gaza and its population killed more than 55,290 Palestinians, most civilians, according to the health authorities of Gaza, and have 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.

Despite the efforts of the United States, Egypt and Qatar to restore a cease-fire in Gaza, Nor Israel or Hamas showed the will to retreat on basic requests, in particular that Israel is implementing a permanent ceasefire and do not restart war.