Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry has raised the number of Palestinians it says were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday to 29.
Palestinian health officials say at least 21 people were killed and more than 150 were wounded by Israeli gunfire at a crowd awaiting aid trucks at a northern Gaza roundabout, Gaza’s health ministry said.
Earlier, eight people were killed in an airstrike on an aid distribution center in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, Hamas claims.
The tolls cannot be independently verified.
An AFP journalist on the scene in Gaza City reports seeing several bodies and people who had been shot.
Mohammed Ghurab, director of emergency services at a hospital in northern Gaza, tells AFP there were “direct shots by the occupation forces” on people waiting for a food truck.
The Israeli military has not commented on the accusations.
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