London – At least 27 people were killed and more than 90 injured by Israeli forces while they were waiting to collect humanitarian aid in a distribution center in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, managed by Hamas.
Many victims – 24 people who died and 37 injured – arrived at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, according to Atef Al -Hout, the general manager of the hospital, who said that most of the victims came from shots.
The Israeli defense forces have published a statement recognizing a shooting about 500 meters from one of the assistance sites led by the Gaza humanitarian foundation supported by the United States and Israel.
“Earlier in the day, during the crowd movement on the regulated routes on the path of the distribution complex, about half a kilometer of the complex, the forces of TDI identified a certain number of suspects moving towards them while deviating from the access routes,” said the press release.
“The forces fired escape, and after they did not move away, additional blows were fired near the individual suspects that were advancing towards the forces,” he added.
The Palestinians moved by the Israeli air offensive and the ground on the Gaza Walk strip in an area in a makeshift tent camp during the twilight in Gaza City on June 2, 2025.
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“Victim reports are known, the details of the incident are under investigation,” said the FDI.
The FDI said that it allows GHF “to operate independently to distribute aid to Gaza residents and prevent it from reaching the terrorist organization of Hamas”.
“The FDI forces do not prevent Gaza residents from reaching aid distribution complexes,” he added. “The shooting was carried out about half a kilometer from the individual suspect distribution complex that approached the forces in a way that endangered them.”
The GHF published on Tuesday morning a declaration saying that “the aid distribution was made safely and without incident on our site today”.
However, the organization acknowledged that the FDIs “investigate if a certain number of civilians had been injured after having exceeded the safe hallway designated and in a closed military zone”.
“It was an area far beyond our distribution site and our secure operating area,” said GHF. “We recognize the difficult nature of the situation and advise all civilians to stay in the safe corridor when we travel to our distribution sites.”
The GHF aid distribution operation – in which the United Nations and other aid groups have so far refused to participate, citing concerns that the GHF did not independently operated by Israeli forces – has been assaulted by reports of violence.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Health of Gaza, managed by Hamas, said that dozens of people had been killed and more than 200 injured by an Israeli shot about one kilometer from a help distribution site in the south of the strip near the city of Rafah.
The FDI and GHF challenged the account given by the ministry. The United Nations Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres called on an independent incident investigation on Monday.
