The Israeli army said on Saturday that Iran has now become its primary military focus as both sides exchanged deadly missile strikes.
Palestinians walk amid the rubble of buildings in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on March 4. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)
Israeli gunfire and strikes killed at least 140 people across the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, local health authorities said on Wednesday.
Medics said separate airstrikes on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp and Zeitoun neighbourhood in central and northern Gaza, respectively, killed at least 14 people. Five others were killed in an air strike on a tent encampment in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Palestinians flock to the aid centre set up by the US and Israeli-led Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation on the Coastal Road in the Sudaniya area to receive a food package in northern Gaza City (Photo by Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was investigating the reported deaths of people waiting for food. Regarding the other strikes, it said it was “operating to dismantle Hamas military capabilities” and taking “feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm”.
The IDF has said that Palestinians should not approach the aid sites between 6pm-6am local time, areas where looting by criminal gangs, militias and Hamas has made the situation even more dangerous.
Relatives of Palestinians, who lost their lives following the Israeli attack on people waiting in line for humanitarian aid (Photo: Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images)On Tuesday, Gaza’s health ministry said 397 Palestinians have been killed and more than 3,000 wounded since aid deliveries restarted in late May.
‘People are being slaughtered day and night’
“People are being slaughtered in Gaza, day and night, but attention has shifted to the Iran-Israel war. There is little news about Gaza these days,” said Adel, a resident of Gaza City.
Palestinians receive hot meals, distributed by charity organisations, as people struggle with hunger due to ongoing Israeli attacks in Gaza City (Photo: Mahmoud ssa/Anadolu via Getty Images)People carrying sacks of flour walk along al-Rashid street in western Jabalia on June 17, 2025, after humanitarian aid trucks reportedly entered the northern Gaza Strip through the Israeli-controlled Zikim border crossing (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)At least 51 Palestinians were killed and more than 200 wounded in the Gaza Strip while waiting for UN and commercial trucks to enter the territory on Tuesday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry and a local hospital.
Israel has been channelling much of the now permitted aid into Gaza via a new US-Israeli backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces.
Gaza; aid under Israeli fire! pic.twitter.com/6gVJLwSocq
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) June 17, 2025Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, called the current system for distributing aid “a disgrace & a stain on our collective consciousness”, in a post on X on Wednesday.
‘Aren’t we human beings?’
The Israeli military said soldiers had spotted a gathering near an aid truck that was stuck near where Israeli forces were operating. It acknowledged “several casualties” as Israelis opened fire on the approaching crowd and said authorities would investigate what happened.
The main Palestinian telecoms regulatory agency based in the West Bank city of Ramallah reported that Israeli strikes had cut off fixed-line phone service and internet access in central and southern Gaza.
Relatives of Palestinians, who lost their lives following the Israeli attack, wait in line for humanitarian aid and mourn as the bodies are taken from al-Shifa Hospital for the funeral process in Gaza. (Photo by Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images)Mohammed Abu Qeshfa reported hearing a loud explosion followed by heavy gunfire and tank shelling. “I survived by a miracle,” he said.
The dead and wounded were taken to the city’s Nasser Hospital, which confirmed 51 people had been killed. Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières raised the death toll to 59, saying that another 200 had been wounded while trying to receive flour rations in Khan Younis.
Gaza. "Aid distribution", 2025. pic.twitter.com/wKIFPrvE0T
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) June 10, 2025“Why did they fire at the young people? Why? Aren’t we human beings?” she said.
In those instances, the Israeli military has acknowledged firing warning shots at people it said had approached its forces in a suspicious manner and has maintained that it is trying to eliminate Hamas operatives.
Israel says the new system operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is designed to prevent Hamas from siphoning off aid to fund its militant activities.
Palestinians receive hot meals, distributed by charity organisations (Photo by Mahmoud ssa/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The UN-run network has delivered aid across Gaza throughout the 20-month Israel-Hamas war, but has faced major obstacles since Israel loosened a total blockade it had imposed from early March until mid-May.
Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for OCHA, said on Tuesday that the aid Israeli authorities have allowed into Gaza since late May has been “woefully insufficient”.
Palestinians receive hot meals, distributed by charity organisations, as people struggle with hunger due to ongoing Israeli attacks at Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on June 18, 2025. (Photo by Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty Images)Forgotten
Israel’s military campaign, launched in October 2023, has killed over 55,300 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Palestinians gather along the Coastal Road in the Al-Sudaniyya area in northern Gaza as they wait to receive humanitarian aid expected to enter through the Zikim crossing (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The militants still hold 53 hostages, fewer than half of them alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.
Amid the continued conflict, Palestinians in Gaza have been closely following Israel’s with Iran, long a major supporter of Hamas.
Palestinians try to get food at a charity kitchen providing hot meals in Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza City on June 18. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)“We just hope that a comprehensive solution could be reached to end the war in Gaza, too. We are being forgotten,” he said.
Additional reporting by Reuters and AP
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