At least nine people were killed in an attack on an aid distribution vehicle, according to Palestinian media.
At least nine people were killed and many others injured in an Israeli strike on an aid distribution truck in Deir el-Balah, the Wafa news agency reports.
A witness who did not give his name told Tel Aviv Tribune he was walking towards a water well on Sunday when the area was “flooded with missiles, shrapnel flying, body parts falling apart.” the air “.
“This truck was transporting relief supplies, with civilian volunteers on board. They were carrying food to displaced people from Gaza. It is claimed that Deir el-Balah is a safe area,” he said.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
“Horrible massacre”
Later on Sunday, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said there had been “dozens” of victims in a “horrific massacre” of aid seekers near the roundabout. Kuwaiti point on Salah al-Din Street, in the south of Gaza City.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah, said: “It appears that the Israeli army is currently targeting people who are desperate for food, anything, to survive.”
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
Children are dying from malnutrition and dehydration
The attacks come as Gaza’s health ministry said at least 15 children had died in recent days of malnutrition and dehydration at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City.
The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has warned that many more children in Gaza will die of dehydration and malnutrition unless there is direct intervention to secure aid.
“Now the child deaths we feared are here and are likely to increase rapidly unless the war ends and the obstacles to humanitarian assistance are immediately addressed,” wrote Adele Khodr, regional director of UNICEF for the MENA region, in a press release.
More than 30,400 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7, according to Palestinian authorities.
Israel launched its devastating bombings and ground invasion of the besieged territory after Hamas, which rules Gaza, carried out an attack on Israel, killing at least 1,139 people, according to an Tel Aviv Tribune tally based on official Israeli figures. and capturing about 250 more. .
Hamas in Cairo for negotiations
Negotiations on a possible truce between Israel and Hamas resumed on Sunday, after a US official indicated that Israel had approved a framework for a temporary ceasefire and exchange of Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas officials arrived in Cairo on Sunday, but Israeli media reported that Israel did not send a delegation to the talks, mediated by envoys from Qatar, Egypt and the United States.
A senior Hamas official told Tel Aviv Tribune that his delegation was in Cairo “to meet the Egyptian and Qatari brothers and present the movement’s vision.” Whether or not the occupation delegation arrives in Cairo is of no concern to us,” he said.
A source briefed on the discussions told the Reuters news agency a day earlier that Israel could stay away from Cairo unless Hamas first presents the list of prisoners.
A Palestinian source told the agency that Hamas has so far rejected the request.
A US official said earlier that Israel had agreed to the framework of a truce agreement that will be discussed in Cairo.
“There is a framework agreement. The Israelis have more or less accepted it,” a senior US official in President Joe Biden’s administration said on Saturday.