Gaza truce talks faltering over withdrawal; 17 reported killed in latest shooting near aid
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Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food aid, medics say
Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people. It was the worst death toll in a single day since aid resumed in Gaza in May. The incident was the latest in nearly daily large-scale killings of Palestinians seeking aid in the three weeks since Israel partially lifted a total blockade on the territory it had imposed for nearly three months. Israel has been channelling much of the aid it is now allowing into Gaza through a new U.S.- and Israeli-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces. The Israeli military acknowledged firing in the area and said it was looking into the incident. It said it is investigating whether the incident was caused by the use of a large anti-terror device. The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and operates to minimise harm as much as possible to them while maintaining the safety of our troops. It also said that the incident did not occur at a GHF site, but rather near a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) location.
Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd in Khan Younis
Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks
CAIRO/GAZA, June 17 (Reuters) – Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food.
Video shared on social media showed around a dozen mangled bodies lying in a street in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military, at war with Hamas-led Palestinian militants in Gaza since October 2023, acknowledged firing in the area and said it was looking into the incident.
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Witnesses interviewed by Reuters said Israeli tanks had launched at least two shells at a crowd of thousands who had gathered on the main eastern road through Khan Younis in the hope of obtaining food from aid trucks that use the route.
“All of a sudden, they let us move forward and made everyone gather, and then shells started falling, tank shells,” said Alaa, an eyewitness, interviewed by Reuters at Nasser Hospital, where wounded victims lay sprawled on the floor and in corridors due to the lack of space.
“No one is looking at these people with mercy. The people are dying, they are being torn apart, to get food for their children. Look at these people, all these people are torn to get flour to feed their children.”
Palestinian medics said at least 59 people were killed and 221 wounded in the incident, at least 20 of them in critical condition. Casualties were being rushed into the hospital in civilian cars, rickshaws and donkey carts. It was the worst death toll in a single day since aid resumed in Gaza in May.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said: “Earlier today, a gathering was identified adjacent to an aid distribution truck that got stuck in the area of Khan Younis, and in proximity to IDF troops operating in the area.
“The IDF is aware of reports regarding a number of injured individuals from IDF fire following the crowd’s approach. The details of the incident are under review. The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and operates to minimise harm as much as possible to them while maintaining the safety of our troops.”
Medics said at least 14 other people were also killed by Israeli gunfire and airstrikes elsewhere in the densely populated enclave, taking Tuesday’s overall death toll to at least 73.
Item 1 of 9 A mourner reacts during the funeral of Palestinians killed in what the Gaza health ministry says was Israeli fire near a distribution center in Rafah, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled [1/9] A mourner reacts during the funeral of Palestinians killed in what the Gaza health ministry says was Israeli fire near a distribution center in Rafah, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled Purchase Licensing Rights , opens new tab
The health ministry said 397 Palestinians, among those trying to get food aid, had been killed and more than 3,000 were wounded since late May.
The incident was the latest in nearly daily large-scale killings of Palestinians seeking aid in the three weeks since Israel partially lifted a total blockade on the territory it had imposed for nearly three months.
Israel has been channelling much of the aid it is now allowing into Gaza through a new U.S.- and Israeli-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces.
“The incident in question did not occur at a GHF site, but rather near a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) location,” the foundation said of the incident on Tuesday.
The United Nations rejects the GHF delivery system as inadequate, dangerous and a violation of humanitarian impartiality rules. Israel says it is needed to prevent Hamas fighters from diverting aid, which Hamas denies.
Gaza authorities say hundreds of Palestinians have been killed trying to reach GHF sites.
The GHF said in a press release late on Monday that it had distributed more than three million meals at its four distribution sites without incident.
The Gaza war was triggered in October 2023 , when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli allies. Israel’s subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health ministry, while displacing nearly the entire population of 2.3 million and causing a hunger crisis.
Since last week, Gaza Palestinians have kept an eye on the new air war between Israel and Iran , which has long been a major supporter of Hamas.
Gaza residents have circulated images of buildings in Israel wrecked by Iranian missiles, some saying they are happy to see Israelis experiencing a measure of the fear of airstrikes that they have endured for 20 months.
Reporting and writing by Nidal al-Mughrabi. Additional reporting by Hatem Khaled, Hussam al-Masri, and Dawoud Abu Alkas in Gaza; Editing by Alex Richardson, William Maclean, Peter Graff, Mark Heinrich and Stephen Coates
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Gaza truce talks faltering over withdrawal; 17 reported killed in latest shooting near aid
Talks aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza are stalling over the extent of Israeli forces’ withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave. In Gaza, medics said 17 people trying to get food aid were killed on Saturday when Israeli troops opened fire. The latest mass shooting around a U.S.-backed aid distribution system that the U.N. says has resulted in 800 people killed in six weeks. The Israeli military said its troops had fired warning shots, but that its review of the incident had found no evidence of anyone hurt by its soldiers’ fire. At least 20,000 Palestinians are believed to still be alive, according to Gaza health authorities. The campaign against Hamas has killed more than more than 2 million people, sparked a humanitarian crisis and left much of the territory in ruins. The conflict began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel, killing about 1,200 of the remaining 50 hostages into Gaza. The Thomson Trust Trust Principles are open to all.
The indirect talks over a U.S. proposal for a 60-day ceasefire are nonetheless expected to continue, the sources said.
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In Gaza, medics said 17 people trying to get food aid were killed on Saturday when Israeli troops opened fire, the latest mass shooting around a U.S.-backed aid distribution system that the U.N. says has resulted in 800 people killed in six weeks.
Witnesses who spoke to Reuters described people being shot in the head and torso. Reuters saw several bodies of victims wrapped in white shrouds as family members wept at Nasser Hospital. The Israeli military said its troops had fired warning shots, but that its review of the incident had found no evidence of anyone hurt by its soldiers’ fire.
Delegations from Israel and Hamas have been in Qatar for a week in a renewed push for an agreement which envisages a phased release of hostages, Israeli troop withdrawals and discussions on ending the war.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the past week, had said he hoped for a deal soon. But the Israeli and Palestinian sources described longstanding issues that remain unresolved.
A Palestinian source said that Hamas had rejected withdrawal maps which Israel had proposed that would leave around 40% of Gaza under Israeli control, including all of the southern area of Rafah and further territories in northern and eastern Gaza.
Two Israeli sources said Hamas wanted Israel to retreat to lines it held in a previous ceasefire before it renewed its offensive in March.
The Palestinian source said matters regarding aid and guarantees on an end to the war were also presenting a challenge. The crisis could be resolved with more U.S. intervention, the source said.
Item 1 of 3 A Palestinian man from the Katoo family, with his son, mourns beside the body of his other son, who was killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid near a distribution point in Rafah, according to medics, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 12, 2025. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed [1/3] A Palestinian man from the Katoo family, with his son, mourns beside the body of his other son, who was killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid near a distribution point in Rafah, according to medics, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 12, 2025. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed Purchase Licensing Rights , opens new tab
Hamas has long demanded an agreement to end the war before it would free remaining hostages; Israel has insisted it would end the fighting only when all hostages are released and Hamas is dismantled as a fighting force and administration in Gaza.
SHOOTING
Saturday’s reported mass shooting near an aid distribution point in Rafah was the latest in a series of such incidents that the United Nations rights office said on Friday had seen at least 798 people killed trying to get food in six weeks.
“We were sitting there, and suddenly there was shooting towards us. For five minutes we were trapped under fire. The shooting was targeted. It was not random. Some people were shot in the head, some in the torso, one guy next to me was shot directly in the heart,” eyewitness Mahmoud Makram told Reuters.
“There is no mercy there, no mercy. People go because they are hungry but they die and come back in body bags.”
After partially lifting a total blockade of all goods into Gaza in late May, Israel launched a new aid distribution system, relying on a group backed by the United States to distribute food under the protection of Israeli troops.
The United Nations has rejected the system as inherently dangerous and a violation of humanitarian neutrality principles. Israel says it is necessary to keep militants from diverting aid.
The war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages into Gaza. At least 20 of the remaining 50 hostages there are believed to still be alive.
Israel’s campaign against Hamas has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities, displaced almost the entire population of more than 2 million people, sparked a humanitarian crisis and left much of the territory in ruins.
Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Cairo, Maayan Lubell and Emily Rose in Jerusalem, Ramadan Abed in Gaza; Editing by William Maclean and Peter Graff
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Indonesian police arrest three Australian men over shooting in Bali
Indonesian police have arrested three Australian men for a shooting incident that killed a fourth. Saturday’s shooting just after midnight killed Zivan Radmanovic, 32 and seriously wounded a fifth Australian, Sanar Ghanim, 35. Police detained on Tuesday the three suspects whom they accused of having “prepared and executed” the shooting, Bali police chief Daniel Adityajaya said. They have been charged with premeditated murder and could face the death penalty if it was proved.
Item 1 of 2 Police officers stand near evidence being displayed at the police station following a shooting incident in which one Australian man was fatally shot and another was injured, in Badung, Bali, Indonesia, June 18, 2025. REUTERS/Johannes P. Christo
JAKARTA, June 18 (Reuters) – Indonesian police have arrested three Australian men for a shooting incident that killed a fourth at a villa on the resort island of Bali, its police chief said on Wednesday.
Police detained on Tuesday the three suspects whom they accused of having “prepared and executed” the shooting, Bali police chief Daniel Adityajaya said.
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“We have arrested three suspects,” he told reporters, adding that they had been charged with premeditated murder and could face the death penalty if it was proved.
Police declined to identify the men, however, referring to them only by the initials C, D and T.
Saturday’s shooting just after midnight killed Zivan Radmanovic, 32 and seriously wounded a fifth Australian, Sanar Ghanim, 35.
Indonesian authorities previously said they had arrested two people for the shooting, one at Soekarno-Hatta airport near the capital, Jakarta, as he prepared to leave the country.
“We arrested him just before he managed to leave,” Adityajaya said.
The other two were detained abroad, after police sought the cooperation of Interpol in Southeast Asia, they said, but declined to say where the arrests were made.
They also seized items such as a 9-mm gun, a motorcycle and two cars the suspects had used to flee the scene of the crime, Adityajaya said.
Police have not given a motive for the crime, saying their investigation continues, with Adityajaya adding that a further suspect could be identified as the plot’s mastermind.
Reporting by Ananda Teresia; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
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Trump says he will not call Minnesota governor after shooting
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will not call Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Walz is the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2024. A weekend shooting left one of the state’s lawmakers dead and another injured. Trump, a Republican, issued a statement after Saturday’s shooting saying such “horrific violence” would not be tolerated in the United States.
WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he did not plan to call Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2024, after a weekend shooting left one of the state’s lawmakers dead and another injured.
Trump, a Republican, issued a statement after Saturday’s shooting saying such “horrific violence” would not be tolerated in the United States. But he has declined to offer conciliatory words to Walz as he presides over the response in his state.
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Walz was Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s running mate last year. Trump and his then-running mate, JD Vance, beat them in the November election.
“I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I’m not calling him. Why would I call him?” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on the way back from a trip to Canada for a meeting of G7 leaders.
“The guy doesn’t have a clue. He’s a mess. So I could be nice and call him, but why waste time?”
The suspect, Vance Boelter, who is accused of assassinating a Minnesota lawmaker and shooting another, drove to the homes of at least four state politicians as part of a planned killing spree, U.S. authorities said on Monday
Reporting by Jeff Mason; editing by Mark Heinrich
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Fifty killed in Gaza, many trying to reach food, as UN denounces Israeli-backed aid system
Smoke rises following Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. Israel has put responsibility for distributing much of the aid it allows into Gaza into the hands of a new U.S.-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The United Nations has rejected the plan, saying GHF distribution is inadequate, dangerous and violates humanitarian impartiality. Israel had not lifted restrictions on U.N. bringing in aid, despite an abundance of assistance ready to be moved into the Gaza Strip. It turned out to be a trap,’ says survivor, ‘to get aid to feed our children, but it turned out-to be a killing. I advise everyone: don’t go there’ The U.K. has had to crack down on distribution because Hamas fighters were diverting food aid, and say Israel is using hunger as a weapon, too. It has occasionally acknowledged troops opening fire near aid sites, while blaming militants for provoking the violence. It’s not clear how many people will be affected.
Item 1 of 5 Smoke rises following Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Summary Starving people killed by ‘lethal distribution system,’ UN says
‘It turned out to be a trap,’ says survivor
CAIRO/GAZA, June 16 (Reuters) – Israeli fire killed at least 50 people on Monday, nearly half of them near an aid distribution site run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the territory’s Health Ministry said, as U.N. officials denounced Israeli-backed aid delivery methods.
Medics said at least 23 of those people were killed and 200 others wounded near an aid distribution site in Rafah, the latest in daily mass shootings that have killed hundreds of Palestinians trying to reach food since Israel imposed a new distribution system after partly lifting a near three-month total blockade.
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Israel has put responsibility for distributing much of the aid it allows into Gaza into the hands of a new U.S.-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which operates three sites in areas guarded by Israeli troops. The United Nations has rejected the plan, saying GHF distribution is inadequate, dangerous and violates humanitarian impartiality principles.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military about Monday’s reports of shootings. In previous incidents, it has occasionally acknowledged troops opening fire near aid sites, while blaming militants for provoking the violence.
The GHF said in a statement late on Monday that it has distributed more than 3 million meals at its four distribution sites without incident.
Relatives arrived at Nasser Hospital to mourn the dead. Women and children wept beside bodies wrapped in white shrouds.
“We went there thinking we would get aid to feed our children, but it turned out to be a trap, a killing. I advise everyone: don’t go there,” said Ahmed Fayad, one of those who tried to reach aid on Monday.
‘LETHAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM’
Later on Monday, local health authorities said Israeli gunfire killed at least five people and wounded dozens of others as crowds of Palestinians gathered along the coastal road awaiting U.N.-funded aid trucks to enter the northern Gaza area.
Witnesses said dozens of desperate people looted four truckloads of food packages.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Palestinian refugees agency UNRWA, said in a post on X: “Scores of people have been killed & injured in the past days, including of starving people trying to get some food from a lethal distribution system.”
Before the new system was set up, aid had been distributed to Gaza’s 2.3 million residents mainly by U.N. agencies such as UNRWA, which employ thousands of staff inside Gaza and operate hundreds of sites across the enclave.
Israel says it has had to crack down on distribution because Hamas fighters were diverting food aid. The militants deny this and say Israel is using hunger as a weapon.
Lazzarini said Israel had not lifted restrictions on U.N. agencies including UNRWA bringing in aid, despite an abundance of assistance ready to be moved into the enclave.
On Sunday, COGAT, the Israeli military aid coordination agency, said that this week it had facilitated the entry of 292 trucks with humanitarian aid from the United Nations and the international community, including food and flour, into Gaza.
It said the Israeli military would continue to permit the entry of humanitarian aid while ensuring it did not reach Hamas.
Before Monday’s incident, the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said that at least 300 people had been killed, and more than 2,600 wounded, near aid distribution sites since the GHF began operations.
On Sunday, at least five people were killed as thousands of Palestinians approached two GHF distribution sites in the central and southern parts of the enclave.
The GHF said in a statement that it resumed food deliveries on Sunday, distributing more than 2 million meals from its three distribution sites without incident.
The war in Gaza erupted 20 months ago after Hamas-led militants raided Israel and took 251 hostages and killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, on October 7, 2023, Israel’s single deadliest day.
Israel’s military campaign since then has killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to health authorities in Gaza, and flattened much of the densely populated strip. Most of the population is displaced, and widespread malnutrition is a significant concern.
Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Cairo Additional reporting by Emma Farge in Geneva and Hatem Khaled in Gaza Editing by Peter Graff and Rod Nickel
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