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UN says 1,373 Gazan aid seekers killed since late May, mostly by IDF
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Palestinians pick up food parcels from a distribution point set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), on June 25, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
The UN human rights office says that 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while waiting for aid in the shortage-stricken Gaza Strip since late May, most of them by the Israeli military.
“In total, since 27 May, at least 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food; 859 in the vicinity of (US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) sites and 514 along the routes of food convoys,” the UN agency’s office for the Palestinian territories says in a statement.
“Most of these killings were committed by the Israeli military,” it adds.
The IDF has repeatedly said that it has fired warning shots at crowds approaching troops, but that claims of casualties are inflated, without providing its own figures.
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