Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage in Gaza
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Israel retrieves the body of a Thai hostage as 95 people are reported killed in Gaza
At least 95 people have been killed in the past 24 hours. Israel says it was responding to Hamas’ “barbaric attacks” and dismantling its capabilities. Israel’s military later said it killed the head of the Mujahideen Brigades, As’ad Aby Sharaiya, in Gaza City on Saturday. Families rallied again Saturday evening in Israel, calling for a ceasefire deal to bring everyone home. The bodies of two other citizens were yet to be retrieved, the foreign ministry said. Many lived on the outskirts of southern Israeli kibbutzim and towns, the first places overrun in the attack. The body of a Thai hostage was retrieved from the Rafah area in southern Gaza, Israel’s defense minister said. The army said several suspects attempted to approach troops operating in the Tel al-Sultan area overnight “in a manner that posed a threat.“Stand up, my love,” one weeping woman said, touching the shrouded bodies.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel said Saturday it retrieved the body of a Thai hostage abducted into the Gaza Strip during the Hamas-led attack that sparked the war, as Israel’s military continued its offensive, killing at least 95 people in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
Nattapong Pinta had come to Israel to work in agriculture. Israel’s government said he was seized from Kibbutz Nir Oz and killed early in the war, which began on Oct. 7, 2023.
Thailand’s foreign ministry said the bodies of two other citizens were yet to be retrieved. Thais were the largest group of foreigners held captive. Many lived on the outskirts of southern Israeli kibbutzim and towns, the first places overrun in the attack. Forty-six Thais have been killed during the war, according to the foreign ministry.
Israel’s defense minister said Pinta’s body was retrieved from the Rafah area in southern Gaza. The army said he was seized by the Mujahideen Brigades, the small armed group that also took two Israeli-American hostages, Judih Weinstein and Gad Haggai, whose bodies were retrieved on Thursday.
Israel’s military later said it killed the head of the Mujahideen Brigades, As’ad Aby Sharaiya, in Gaza City on Saturday.
Fifty-five hostages remain in Gaza. Israel says more than half are dead. Families rallied again Saturday evening in Israel, calling for a ceasefire deal to bring everyone home.
Hamas issued an unusual warning about another hostage, Matan Zangauker, saying Israel’s military had surrounded the area where he’s held and that any harm that came to him during a rescue attempt would be Israel’s responsibility. Israel’s military didn’t immediately comment.
“The decision to expand the (military) ground maneuver is at the cost of Matan’s life and the lives of all the hostages,” Zangauker’s mother, Einav, told the rally in Tel Aviv.
Israel continues its military offensive
A strike in Gaza City killed six members of a family, including two children, according to the Shifa and al-Ahli hospitals. Israel’s military said the strike targeted the Mujahideen Brigades leader.
“This is the real destruction,” a man said as he carried the body of a small boy from the scene.
Four Israeli strikes hit the Muwasi area in southern Gaza between Rafah and Khan Younis. In northern Gaza, a strike hit an apartment, killing seven people including a mother and five children. Their bodies were taken to Shifa hospital.
“Stand up, my love,” one weeping woman said, touching the shrouded bodies.
Israel said it was responding to Hamas’ “barbaric attacks” and dismantling its capabilities. It said it takes all feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm.
Reports say some of the dead tried to get food aid
Staff at Nasser hospital, which received the bodies of six people over the past 24 hours, said they were killed while on their way to get food aid. Much of Gaza’s population of over 2 million relies on aid after widespread destruction of agriculture as well as a recent Israeli blockade. Experts have warned of famine.
Israel’s army has warned that the aid distribution area is an active combat zone during nighttime hours. It said several suspects attempted to approach troops operating in the Tel al-Sultan area overnight “in a manner that posed a threat.” The army said troops called out, then fired warning shots as the suspects advanced.
An army official who couldn’t be named in line with military procedures said the shots were fired about a kilometer (half-mile) from the distribution site.
Over the past two weeks, shootings have occurred frequently near the new hubs where thousands of desperate Palestinians are being directed to collect food. Witnesses say nearby Israeli troops have opened fire, and more than 80 people have been killed, according to Gaza hospital officials. Israel’s military has said it fired warning shots or, in some instances, at individuals approaching.
The hubs are run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a new group of mainly American contractors. Israel wants it to replace a system coordinated by the United Nations and aid groups.
A GHF spokesperson, speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance with the group’s rules, said it didn’t feed Gaza residents on Saturday and blamed Hamas threats. There was no immediate Hamas response.
Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid under the U.N.-led system. The U.N. and aid groups deny there’s significant diversion of aid to militants and say the new system — which they have rejected — allows Israel to use food as a weapon, violates humanitarian principles and won’t be effective.
The U.N says it has been unable to distribute much aid under its system because of Israeli military restrictions on movements and insecurity.
Separately, Palestinians lined up at a soup kitchen in Gaza City for handouts on the second day of Eid al-Adha.
“I have been standing here for more than an hour and a half. I feel I have a sunstroke, and I am in need,” said Farida al-Sayed, who said she had six people to feed. “I only had lentils, and I ran out of them.”
Death tolls since the war began
Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the Oct. 7 attack and abducted 251 hostages. Most were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Israeli forces have rescued eight living hostages and recovered dozens of bodies.
Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s health ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants. The offensive has destroyed large parts of Hamas-run Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population of roughly 2 million Palestinians.
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Mohammad Jahjouh reported from Rafah, Gaza Strip. Bassem Mroue and Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut, and Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel, contributed to this report.
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A previous version of this story was corrected to show that the previous bodies were recovered on Thursday, not Friday.
Israel retrieves body of Thai hostage from Gaza as airstrikes kill dozens
Nattapong Pinta’s body was held by a Palestinian militant group called the Mujahedeen Brigades. Israeli military said the Brigades were still holding the body of another foreign national. Only 20 of the 55 remaining hostages in Gaza are still believed to be alive. Dozens of people were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the enclave on Saturday, during the Muslim festival of Eid al Adha. Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday that Gaza’s hospitals only had fuel for three more days. Israel warned people to evacuate the district of Jabalia, saying it was going to strike there.
Israel’s military has recovered the body of a Thai hostage who had been held in Gaza since Hamas’ October 7 2023 attack, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday.
That news came as Israeli airstrikes killed at least 55 people, according to local medics.
Nattapong Pinta’s body was held by a Palestinian militant group called the Mujahedeen Brigades, Katz said.
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His family in Thailand has been notified.
Israel’s military said Pinta had been abducted alive and killed by his captors.
There was no immediate comment from the Mujahedeen Brigades, who have previously denied killing their captives, or from Hamas.
The Israeli military said the Brigades were still holding the body of another foreign national.
Only 20 of the 55 remaining hostages in Gaza are still believed to be alive.
A two-month Gaza ceasefire collapsed in March after the two sides failed to agree on terms for extending it to a second phase.
Israel has since expanded its offensive across the enclave.
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Medics in Gaza said dozens of people were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the enclave on Saturday, during the Muslim festival of Eid al Adha.
Mamdouh Bakr was among mourners gathered near the shrouded bodies of those killed in a strike in Gaza City.
“We are living the second day of Eid al-Adha, when children are supposed to be in amusement parks, gardens and parks, carrying their toys and wearing Eid clothes. However, we are pulling our children out from under the rubble in torn pieces. Eid clothes have become the white shroud, and this is due to the occupation.”
The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
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It later warned people to evacuate the district of Jabalia, saying it was going to strike there after rockets were launched by militants in the vicinity.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday that Gaza’s hospitals only had fuel for three more days.
It accused Israel of denying access for international relief agencies to areas where fuel storages designated for hospitals are located.
There was no immediate response from the Israeli military or COGAT, the Israeli defense agency that coordinates humanitarian matters with the Palestinians.
Israeli airstrikes kill 55, body of Thai hostage retrieved from Gaza
Thai agricultural worker Nattapong Pinta was abducted by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel on Oct 7, 2023. Only 20 of the 55 remaining hostages are believed to still be alive. At least 15 Palestinians were killed and 50 wounded by airstrikes in the Gaza City district of Sabra in the northern Gaza Strip on June 7. Israel has since expanded its offensive across the Gaza Strip as US, Qatari and Egyptian-led efforts to secure another ceasefire have faltered. Israeli military said it had uncovered ‘an underground tunnel route, including a command and control centre from which senior Hamas commanders’ operated beneath the European Hospital compound in southern Gaza. Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the US- and Israeli-backed aid group, said it was unable to distribute assistance to Palestinian civilians, blaming threats by Hamas, which Gaza’s dominant militant group denied. Israel warned people to evacuate the nearby district of Jabalia, saying it was going to strike there after rockets were launched by militants in the vicinity.
JERUSALEM/CAIRO – The Israeli military has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage who had been held in Gaza since Hamas’ Oct 7, 2023 attack, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on June 7, as Israeli airstrikes killed 55 people, according to local medics.
Mr Nattapong Pinta’s body was held by a Palestinian militant group called the Mujahedeen Brigades, and was recovered from the area of Rafah in southern Gaza, Mr Katz said.
His family in Thailand has been notified.
Mr Nattapong, an agricultural worker, was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, a small Israeli community near the Gaza border where a quarter of the population was killed or taken hostage during the Hamas attack that triggered the devastating war in Gaza.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the US- and Israeli-backed aid group, said on June 7 it was unable to distribute assistance to Palestinian civilians, blaming threats by Hamas, which Gaza’s dominant militant group denied.
Israel’s military said Mr Nattapong had been abducted alive and killed by his captors, who had also killed and taken to Gaza the bodies of two more Israeli-American hostages that were retrieved earlier this week.
There was no immediate comment from the Mujahedeen Brigades, who have previously denied killing their captives, or from Hamas. The Israeli military said the Brigades were still holding the body of another foreign national.
Thai agricultural worker Nattapong Pinta was abducted by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israel on Oct 7, 2023. PHOTO: HOSTAGE AID WORLDWIDE/X
Only 20 of the 55 remaining hostages are believed to still be alive.
The Mujahedeen Brigades also held and killed Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, according to Israeli authorities. Their bodies were returned during a two-month ceasefire, which collapsed in March after the two sides could not agree on terms for extending it to a second phase.
Israel has since expanded its offensive across the Gaza Strip as US, Qatari and Egyptian-led efforts to secure another ceasefire have faltered.
Medics in Gaza said 55 people in total were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the enclave on June 7.
At least 15 Palestinians were killed and 50 wounded by airstrikes in the Gaza City district of Sabra in the northern Gaza Strip on June 7, local health authorities said.
More than one missile landed in the area. The target seemed to have been a multi-floor residential building, but the explosion damaged several other houses nearby, according to witnesses and media.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment. It later warned people to evacuate the nearby district of Jabalia, saying it was going to strike there after rockets were launched by militants in the vicinity.
Palestinians inspecting the damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in Gaza City, on June 7. PHOTO: REUTERS
The Palestinian Health Ministry said on June 7 that Gaza’s hospitals only had fuel for three more days and that Israel was denying access for international relief agencies to areas where fuel storages designated for hospitals are located.
There was no immediate response from the Israeli military or Cogat, the Israeli defence agency that coordinates humanitarian matters with the Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it had uncovered “an underground tunnel route, including a command and control centre from which senior Hamas commanders” operated beneath the European Hospital compound in southern Gaza.
It added that it had located several bodies of militants whose identities were “under examination”.
The Israeli government and military said last month it had killed Mohammad Sinwar, Hamas’ Gaza chief, but Hamas did not confirm his death.
Aid distribution halted
The United Nations has warned that most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are at risk of famine after an 11-week Israeli blockade, with the rate of young children suffering from acute malnutrition nearly tripling.
Aid distribution was halted on June 6 after the GHF said overcrowding had made it unsafe to continue operations.
The GHF, which has been fiercely criticised by humanitarian organisations for alleged lack of neutrality, said it was unable to distribute any humanitarian aid on June 7 because Hamas had issued “direct threats” against its operations.
“These threats made it impossible to proceed today without putting innocent lives at risk,” the GHF said in a statement, in which it also said it intended to resume aid distribution “without delay”.
A Hamas official told Reuters he had no knowledge of such “alleged threats”.
Makeshift shelters for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, on June 6. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
On June 4, the GHF suspended operations and asked the Israeli military to review security protocols after Palestinian hospital officials said more than 80 people had been shot dead and hundreds wounded near distribution points between June 1-3.
Eyewitnesses blamed Israeli soldiers for the killings. The Israeli military said it fired warning shots on two days, while on June 3 it said soldiers had fired at Palestinian “suspects” who were advancing towards their positions.
The Israeli military said on June 7 that 350 trucks of humanitarian aid belonging to the UN and other international relief groups were transferred this week via the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza.
The war erupted after Hamas-led militants took 251 hostages and killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, in the Oct 7, 2023 attack, Israel’s single deadliest day.
Israel’s military campaign has since killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to health authorities in Gaza, and flattened much of the coastal enclave. REUTERS
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Israel says it retrieved the body of a Thai hostage taken to Gaza when the war began
Nattapong Pinta was seized from Kibbutz Nir Oz and killed early in the war. He had come to Israel to work in agriculture. The news came two days after the bodies of two Israeli American hostages were retrieved. Fifty-five hostages remain in Gaza, and Israel says more than half are dead. A total of 46 Thais have been killed during the conflict, according to Thailand’s foreign ministry. Israel says it was responding to Hamas’ “barbaric attacks’ and dismantling its capabilities. Hamas issued an unusual warning about another hostage, Matan Zangauker, saying any harm to him during a rescue attempt would be Israel’s responsibility. The U.N. and aid groups deny there is significant diversion of aid to militants and say the new system — which they have rejected — allows Israel to use food as a weapon. Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid under the U-N.-led system and says it takes all feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm.
Israel said Saturday it had retrieved the body of a Thai hostage abducted to Gaza during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the war against Hamas.
The prime minister’s office said Nattapong Pinta’s body was returned to Israel in a special military operation. Pinta was seized from Kibbutz Nir Oz and killed early in the war, the government said.
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Thailand’s foreign ministry in a statement confirmed that the last Thai hostage in Gaza was confirmed dead. It said the bodies of two others are yet to be retrieved. Israel’s defense minister said Pinta’s body was retrieved from the Rafah area in southern Gaza. He had come to Israel to work in agriculture.
The news came two days after the bodies of two Israeli American hostages were retrieved. Fifty-five hostages remain in Gaza, and Israel says more than half are dead.
The army said Pinta was seized by the Mujahideen Brigades, the small armed group that it said also abducted and killed Shiri Bibas and her two small children. The same group took the two Israeli American hostages, Judih Weinstein and Gad Haggai, whose bodies were retrieved Thursday.
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Thais were the largest group of foreigners held captive by Hamas militants. Many of the agricultural workers lived in compounds on the outskirts of southern Israeli kibbutzim and towns, and Hamas militants overran those places first. A total of 46 Thais have been killed during the conflict, according to Thailand’s foreign ministry.
Separately, Hamas issued an unusual warning about another hostage, Matan Zangauker, saying Israel’s military had surrounded the area where he is held and that any harm to him during a rescue attempt would be Israel’s responsibility.
Israel has continued its military offensive across Gaza.
Four strikes hit the Muwasi area in southern Gaza between Rafah and Khan Yunis. In northern Gaza, one strike hit an apartment, killing seven people including a mother and five children. Their bodies were taken to Shifa hospital.
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“Stand up, my love,” one weeping woman said, touching the shrouded bodies.
Another strike in Gaza City killed six members of a family, including two children, according to the Shifa and Al-Ahli hospitals.
Israel said it was responding to Hamas’ “barbaric attacks” and dismantling its capabilities. It said it takes all feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm.
Staff at Nasser hospital, where six of the bodies over the last 24 hours were taken, said they were killed while on their way to get food aid. Much of Gaza’s population of over 2 million now relies on such aid after widespread destruction of agriculture and markets as well as a recent Israeli blockade of two and a half months. Experts have warned of famine in the territory.
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Israel’s army said that despite warnings that the distribution area is an active combat zone during nighttime hours, several suspects attempted to approach troops operating in the Tel al-Sultan area overnight “in a manner that posed a threat to the troops.” The army said troops called out, but as the suspects continued advancing, they fired warning shots.
Shootings have occurred frequently near the new hubs where thousands of desperate Palestinians are being directed to collect food. The hubs are run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a new group of mainly American contractors. Israel wants the GHF to replace humanitarian groups in Gaza that distribute aid in coordination with the United Nations.
Israel accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid under the U.N.-led system. The U.N. and aid groups deny there is significant diversion of aid to militants and say the new system — which they have rejected — allows Israel to use food as a weapon, violates humanitarian principles and won’t be effective.
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Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the October 2023 attack and abducted 251 hostages. Most were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Israeli forces have rescued eight living hostages and recovered dozens of bodies.
Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s health ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. The offensive has destroyed large parts of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population of roughly 2 million Palestinians.
Mednick and Jahjouh write for the Associated Press. Jahjouh reported from Rafah, Gaza Strip. Associated Press reporter Bassem Mroue contributed from Beirut.
Israeli airstrikes kill 55, body of Thai hostage retrieved from Gaza
Nattapong Pinta’s body was held by a Palestinian militant group called the Mujahedeen Brigades. The Israeli military said the Brigades were still holding the body of another foreign national. Only 20 of the 55 remaining hostages are believed to still be alive. At least 15 Palestinians were killed and 50 wounded by airstrikes in the Gaza City district of Sabra in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, local health authorities said. Israel has in recent weeks expanded its offensive across the Gaza Strip as U.S., Qatari and Egyptian-led efforts to secure another ceasefire have faltered. The United Nations has warned that most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are at risk of famine, with the rate of young children suffering from acute malnutrition nearly tripling in the past 11 weeks. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said on Saturday it was unable to distribute assistance to Palestinian civilians, blaming threats by Hamas, which Gaza’s dominant militant group denied. The military said it had killed As’ad Abu Sharaiya, who served as the head of the Mujahideen.
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JERUSALEM/CAIRO, June 7 (Reuters) – The Israeli military has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage who had been held in Gaza since Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday, as Israeli airstrikes killed 55 people, according to local medics.
Nattapong Pinta’s body was held by a Palestinian militant group called the Mujahedeen Brigades, and was recovered from the area of Rafah in southern Gaza, Katz said. His family in Thailand has been notified.
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Pinta, an agricultural worker, was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, a small Israeli community near the Gaza border where a quarter of the population was killed or taken hostage during the Hamas attack that triggered the devastating war in Gaza.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the U.S.- and Israeli-backed aid group, said on Saturday it was unable to distribute assistance to Palestinian civilians, blaming threats by Hamas, which Gaza’s dominant militant group denied.
Israel’s military said Pinta had been abducted alive and killed by his captors, who had also killed and taken to Gaza the bodies of two more Israeli-American hostages that were retrieved earlier this week.
There was no immediate comment from the Mujahedeen Brigades, who have previously denied killing their captives, or from Hamas. The Israeli military said the Brigades were still holding the body of another foreign national. Only 20 of the 55 remaining hostages are believed to still be alive.
The Mujahedeen Brigades also held and killed Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, according to Israeli authorities. Their bodies were returned during a two-month ceasefire, which collapsed in March after the two sides could not agree on terms for extending it to a second phase.
The military said on Saturday it had killed As’ad Abu Sharaiya, who served as the head of the Mujahideen, but there was no confirmation from the group.
Israel has in recent weeks expanded its offensive across the Gaza Strip as U.S., Qatari and Egyptian-led efforts to secure another ceasefire have faltered.
Medics in Gaza said 55 people in total were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the enclave on Saturday.
At least 15 Palestinians were killed and 50 wounded by airstrikes in the Gaza City district of Sabra in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, local health authorities said.
More than one missile landed in the area. The target seemed to have been a multi-floor residential building, but the explosion damaged several other houses nearby, according to witnesses and media.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment. It later warned people to evacuate the nearby district of Jabalia, saying it was going to strike there after rockets were launched by militants in the vicinity.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Saturday that Gaza’s hospitals only had fuel for three more days and that Israel was denying access for international relief agencies to areas where fuel storages designated for hospitals are located.
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There was no immediate response from the Israeli military or COGAT, the Israeli defence agency that coordinates humanitarian matters with the Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it had uncovered “an underground tunnel route, including a command and control center from which senior Hamas commanders” operated beneath the European Hospital compound in southern Gaza.
It added that it had located several bodies of militants whose identities were “under examination”.
The Israeli government and military said last month it had killed Mohammad Sinwar, Hamas’ Gaza chief, but Hamas did not confirm his death.
US-BACKED AID GROUP HALTS DISTRIBUTIONS
The United Nations has warned that most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are at risk of famine after an 11-week Israeli blockade, with the rate of young children suffering from acute malnutrition nearly tripling.
Aid distribution was halted on Friday after the GHF said overcrowding had made it unsafe to continue operations.
The GHF, which has been fiercely criticised by humanitarian organisations for alleged lack of neutrality, said it was unable to distribute any humanitarian aid on Saturday because Hamas had issued “direct threats” against its operations.
“These threats made it impossible to proceed today without putting innocent lives at risk,” the GHF said in a statement in which it also said it intended to resume aid distribution “without delay”.
A Hamas official told Reuters he had no knowledge of such “alleged threats”.
On Wednesday, the GHF suspended operations and asked the Israeli military to review security protocols after Palestinian hospital officials said more than 80 people had been shot dead and hundreds wounded near distribution points between June 1-3.
Eyewitnesses blamed Israeli soldiers for the killings. The Israeli military said it fired warning shots on two days, while on Tuesday it said soldiers had fired at Palestinian “suspects” who were advancing towards their positions.
The Israeli military said on Saturday that 350 trucks of humanitarian aid belonging to the U.N. and other international relief groups were transferred this week via the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza.
The war erupted after Hamas-led militants took 251 hostages and killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, in the October 7, 2023 attack, Israel’s single deadliest day.
Israel’s military campaign has since killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to health authorities in Gaza, and flattened much of the coastal enclave.
Reporting by Mayaan Lubell in Jeruslem, Jaidaa Taha, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Muhammad Al Gebaly in Cairo and Michelle Nichols at the United Nations; writing by Maayan Lubell and Patricia Zengerle; editing by Bernadette Baum, Mark Potter and Mark Heinrich
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