June 16, 2025 Meet the Middle East

Gaza rescuers say Israeli fire kills 20 waiting for aid

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli troops killed 20 people waiting to collect food on Monday, in the latest deadly incident near a US-backed aid centre in the Palestinian territory's south.Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that "the (Israeli) occupation forces opened fire" near the Al-Alam roundabout in the southern city of Rafah, where many were waiting to reach an aid distribution site.Bassal said that "20 martyrs and more than 200 wounded by occupation gunfire" were taken to nearby hospitals.
Source: Al Monitor
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