Gaza Strip Aid Site Attack

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What had been marketed as a lifeline for the population has become a source of fear, death and mass casualties.

The delivery of food controlled by the GHF has killed nearly 800 people, according to the UN.

Israel had promised death and destruction at the beginning of the genocide, and this is what it is delivering.

Food distribution has become progressively more dangerous, and now only very hungry people are turning to distribution centres and risking their lives.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.

At least 30 people have been killed and 130 wounded at the only remaining food distribution point operated by GHF in southern Gaza.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza, said the Israeli army opened fire indiscriminately on a large crowd.

“Many desperate families in the north have been making dangerous journeys all the way to the south to reach the only operating distribution centre in Rafah,” he said.

“Many of the bodies are still on the ground,” Mahmoud said, adding that the wounded had been transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

When the Israeli- and US-backed organization started operations in May, it had four distribution points across Gaza for 2.1 million people, compared with more than 400 centres previously operated by the UN.

On Wednesday, the GHF said it was closing its hub in Khan Younis for maintenance and renovation, leaving only one site open, in Rafah. GHF-led operations are therefore forcing Palestinians to travel south if they want food, creating dangerous bottlenecks, according to our colleagues on the ground.

The number of Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank has skyrocketed since the start of the war on Gaza.

In the latest incident, an attack by armed Israeli settlers on Ramallah lasted several hours. Seif el-Din Muslat, a Palestinian American in his early twenties who was killed, was surrounded by settlers and attacked for three hours.

Paramedics were not allowed to help him. He died almost as soon as the paramedics were finally allowed to reach him.

Another Palestinian, Mohammed Shalabi, was chased, beaten and eventually shot. His body was found hours later.

At least 350 Palestinians have been injured by Israeli settlers since January 2025. The settlers are accompanied by Israeli soldiers, who detain Palestinians trying to defend themselves or their homes from the attacks, and that is why human rights organizations say settler violence is state violence.

The number of attacks in 2024 was six times that of the year before, and, in 2025, we are already at more attacks registered than in the previous year.

Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports.

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