As the Israeli military begins what calls a tactical pause in operations in three parts of Gaza, a dozen people are reported to have been killed while trying to get food aid from a distribution point in central Gaza.
Al-Awda Hospital said Sunday that it had received 12 bodies, including those of four children and one woman and more than 100 people who had been injured after Israeli forces opened fire near an aid point in the central Gaza Strip operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
It’s unclear whether the incident occurred before the tactical pause came into effect at 10am local time, nor whether it was inside the area covered by the pause.
CNN has reached out to the Israeli military for comment.
There have also been further casualties among people seeking aid in northern Gaza, according to hospital officials.
Eleven bodies have been brought into Al-Shifa hospital since Saturday afternoon from the area used by aid convoys coming in from the Zikim crossing, according to Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the hospital’s director.
Abu Salmiya told CNN that 120 injured people had also arrived at the hospital.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said its field hospital in the north had received two bodies and 54 wounded people after “the targeting of civilians waiting for aid in the Zikim area” in the north-west of Gaza Strip and an airstrike in Gaza City.
