Hamas-run civil defense agency says 9 killed in airstrikes, 2 shot dead near GHF site

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency says 11 people were killed by Israeli gunfire and airstrikes today, including two who were waiting near an aid distribution site inside the Palestinian territory.

Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal tells AFP that five people were killed in a strike near the southern city of Khan Younis, and four more in a separate strike on a vehicle in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

The Israeli army tells AFP it could not confirm the strikes without specific coordinates.

Two other people were killed and more than 70 injured by Israeli fire while waiting for aid near a food distribution centre run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation between Khan Younis and the nearby city of Rafah, the civil defense says.

The army does not immediately respond to the report.