The World Health Organization says it received reports of the mass casualty incident in Gaza as people waited for food supplies.
“This is again the result of another food distribution initiative,” said Thanos Gargavanis, WHO trauma surgeon and emergency officer.
Earlier, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Israeli tank and drone fire killed at least 51 Palestinians as they awaited aid trucks in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
The killings are the latest in near-daily mass deaths of desperate people seeking food in the past weeks, including near sites operated by the Israel-US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
“There’s a constant correlation with the positions of the four announced food distribution sites and the mass casualty incidents,” Gargavanis said, saying trauma injuries in recent days were mostly from gunshot wounds.
Half a million people in the Gaza Strip face starvation, a global hunger monitor said last month.
Al Jazeera
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