Israeli forces kill 67 Palestinians seeking aid in northern Gaza, Hamas-run ministry says

The Hamas -running Ministry of Health in the north of Gaza says that the Israeli army killed at least 67 people waiting for United Nations trucks in northern Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had “launched warning shots” to remove “immediate threat.” He questioned the number of deaths reported.

The ministry said that six people were killed waiting for help elsewhere in Gaza and more than 150 people were seriously wounded, some of them seriously.

On Saturday, she warned that severe hunger was increasing in Gaza and that increasing numbers of people were reaching his facilities “in a state of extreme fatigue and fatigue.”

“We warn that hundreds of people who were waste their bodies are at risk of imminent death due to hunger,” she said. The United Nations also said that civilians in Gaza are starving and called for an urgent flow of basic goods.

Several losses were transferred from northern Gaza to the Shevi Hospital in Gaza City. The medical director there, Dr. Hassan Al -Shir, told BBC Arabic on Sunday that the facility was “sunken” and was directing the wounded to other field hospitals.

Outside the hospital, a woman from BBC Arabic told “all residents die.”

“Children die from hunger because they have nothing to eat. People escape water and salt … only water and salt,” she said.

There have been almost daily reports about the killing of the Palestinians while searching for food since late May. on saturday At least 32 people were killed by the Israeli shooting Near the aid distribution points in southern Gaza, according to the ministry.

Several incidents occurred near the sites run by the controversial and supportive Gaza Corporation from Israel (GHF), which use private security contractors to distribute aid from sites in Israeli military areas, but some of them occurred near the aid brought by the United Nations.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for a crowded part of central Gaza, as it had not launched a ground attack during the 21 months of the war against Hamas.

The Israeli Defense Army said on Sunday that the displaced residents and Palestinians who possess in the city of Deir Al -Raheb should be abandoned immediately and move towards Maasu on the Mediterranean coast.

The request to evacuate, which can indicate an imminent attack, caused widespread panic among tens of thousands of Palestinians, as well as Israeli hostages families who are afraid of their relatives in the city.

The Israeli Defense Army made air strikes in the area, but it has not yet deployed ground forces.

On Sunday, the Israeli army dropped leaflets from the sky orders people in many areas in the southwest of Deir Balla to leave their homes and go to the south.

The army said: “The (Israeli) defense forces continue to work with great force to destroy the enemy’s capabilities and the terrorist infrastructure in the region,” adding that they have not yet entered these areas during the war.

The neighborhoods affected in the monk monastery are crowded with the displaced people who live in tents.

Israeli sources told Reuters that the reason why the army remains outside these areas so far is that they are suspected that Hamas may keep the hosts there.

At least 20 of the 50 hostages of families in Gaza are still alive.

Most of the residents of the strip, more than two million people, were displaced at least once during the Israeli war with Hamas, with repeated Israeli evacuation calls covering large parts of the region.

On Sunday, Pope Liu called for a “immediate end to the brutality of war” and urged “the random use of power.”

His comments came after days An Israeli killing hit the only Catholic Church in GazaIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his country is strongly regretted.

Israel launched its war in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attacks on October 7, 2023, which resulted in the death of about 1,200 people and led to 251 others being greeted as hostage.

Since then, Israeli attacks have killed more than 58,895 people in Gaza, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health. The ministry’s figures were transferred by the United Nations and others as a more reliable source of statistics available to the victims.