Israeli forces killed at least 115 Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, most as they waited for desperately needed food aid in one of the deadliest single incidents involving aid seekers since May.
Dozens more Palestinians have been wounded, according to health officials.
In northern Gaza, at least 67 people were killed near the Zikim crossing when an Israeli strike hit crowds gathering for aid. Another six people were killed near a separate distribution site in the south. The day before, 36 Palestinians were killed in similar circumstances.
The death toll brings the total number of people killed while trying to access food relief to more than 900 since May.
Ahmed Hassouna, who attempted to collect food from an aid site of the United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), described the moment Israeli forces opened fire.
“There was a young man with me, and they started firing gas at us. They killed us with the gas. We barely made it out to catch a breath,” he told media.
Another man, Rizeq Betaar, carried a wounded elderly man away from the gunfire.
“We were the ones who carried him on the bicycle… There are no ambulances, no food, no life, no way to live any more. We’re barely hanging on. May God relieve us,” he said.
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