The territory’s Hamas-Operation Ministry of Operations said the Israeli military killed at least 67 people, waiting for the UN trucks.
The UN World Food Program said its convoy of 25 trucks “had encountered a large number of hungry civilians who were fired by gunfire” and shortly after it crossed from Israel and cleared the checkpoint.
The IDF said it has “driven the warning footage” to eliminate “direct threats.” It presented the number of reported deaths.
On Saturday, the ministry warned that extreme hunger in Gaza was increasing and more people were “in extreme exhaustion and fatigue”.
“We warn that hundreds of people who waste their bodies are at risk of impending death from hunger,” it said. The United Nations also said that civilians in Gaza are starving to death, calling for an emergency influx of essential goods.
On Sunday, the ministry said it had recorded 18 people “death due to famine” in the past 24 hours.
Many casualties from northern Gaza were taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. There, Dr. Hassan Al-Shaer, the medical director there, told BBC Arabic on Sunday that the facility was “overwhelmed”.
Outside the hospital, a woman told the BBC Arabic that “the entire population is dying.”
“The kids died of hunger because they had nothing to eat. People survived on water and salt…just water and salt.”
Gaza civil defense agency said in a latest death toll that the Israeli fire killed 93 people and injured dozens of people in Gaza on Sunday. It said 80 people were killed in northern Gaza, while shot near an aid site in Rafah and near a Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
In Gaza City, Qasem Abu Khater told AFP that he had tried to buy a bag of flour but found a desperate crowd, “deadly overcrowded and pushing”.
“These tanks are firing shells at us randomly, and Israeli sniper soldiers are shooting, as if they were hunting animals in the forest,” he said.
“In front of me, dozens of people were marred by mars, and no one could save anyone.”
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) condemns violence against civilians seeking assistance as “completely unacceptable”.
Almost every day it is reported that Palestinians have been killed while seeking food since late May. At least 32 people were shot and killed by Israel near two aid allocation points in southern Gaza on Saturday, the ministry said.
Many incidents occurred near the controversial U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which used private security contractors to distribute aid to locations in Israel’s military zones, but some were almost brought to the United Nations.
People gather near Shifa Hospital, the bodies of people waiting for assistance were taken into [Getty Images]
Meanwhile, the Israeli military has issued an evacuation order for the crowded areas of central Gaza, and has not launched a ground offensive in the 21-month war against Hamas.
The IDF said on Sunday that residents living in the city of Deir Al-Balah and displaced Palestinians should evacuate immediately and move towards Al-Mawasi on the Mediterranean coast.
The demand for evacuation could mark the imminent attack, causing widespread panic among thousands of Palestinians, as well as the families of Israeli hostages who fear their relatives were locked up in the city.
The IDF carried out air strikes in the area, but no ground forces have been deployed.
Israeli troops dropped flyers from the sky on Sunday, ordering people from several areas of Deir Al-Balah to leave their homes and head south.
“The (Israel) Defense Forces continue to operate with tremendous power to destroy the capabilities and terrorism infrastructure of the enemy in the region,” the military said.
The affected communities in Deir Al-Balah are packed with displaced people living in tents.
Israeli sources told Reuters news agency that the reason the Army was away from these areas was because they suspected that Hamas might take hostages there.
It is believed that at least 20 of the remaining 50 hostages are still alive.
During the Israeli War with Hamas, the majority of the population was displaced at least once, and Israel’s repeated evacuation calls covered much of the territory.
On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called for “an immediate end to the barbaric act of war” and urged “unselected use of force.”
His comment comes days after the deadly Israeli strike attack on Gaza’s only Catholic church, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country deeply regrets.
Israel retaliated against Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, launching a war in Gaza, killing about 1,200 people and causing 251 hostages to be taken.
According to the Hamas Party’s Health Ministry, more than 58,895 people have been killed in Gaza since then, the Israeli attacks killed more than 58,895 people in Gaza. The United Nations and others’ figures are cited as the most reliable source of statistics among casualties.
