According to sources at al-Awda Hospital, while waiting for humanitarian aid near the Netzarim Corridor in the center of Gaza Strip, at least 35 Palestinians have been killed and several others have been injured by Israeli fire.
At least eight people were killed and more injured when Israeli jets bombed a house in central Gaza west of Deir el-Balah.
At least 50 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army on Friday, according to hospitals in Gaza.
Since May 27, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began distributions, hundreds of people have died as a result of Israeli attacks on hungry Palestinians close to aid centers.
The UN has criticized the shadowy Israeli- and US-backed organization that is tasked with distributing aid supplies. Aid organizations have warned that the entire population is facing a potential famine after Israel imposed a total blockade from early March through late May.
The Government Media Office director-general for Gaza, Ismail al-Thawabta, reported on Thursday that 3, 203 more people had been injured and that 409 people had been killed overall.
UNICEF issued a warning that the Gaza Strip’s water systems were also suffering from a man-made drought.
According to spokesperson James Elder, “children will begin to die from thirst,” he told reporters in Geneva on Friday. Only 40% of drinking water production facilities are still operational.
The GHF distribution system, according to the UN agency, was “making a desperate situation worse.”
Elder, who was recently in Gaza, claimed to have heard numerous reports of women and children who had been harmed by a tank shell and later died from their injuries.
He claimed that there were too many mass casualties because the general public was unsure of when the sites, some of which were in combat zones, were open.
“There have been instances where information]was shared that a website is open, but it was later revealed on social media that they are closed,” he said. However, that information was shared when no one in Gaza had access to the internet because it was unavailable.
Source: Aljazeera
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