Over 30 Palestinians killed trying to reach US group’s food distribution sites, Gaza authorities say
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Over 30 Palestinians killed trying to reach US group’s food distribution sites, Gaza authorities say
Israeli troops opened fire Saturday toward crowds of Palestinians seeking food. Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, health officials said. The two incidents occurred near hubs operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The army, which is not at the sites but secures them from a distance, says it only fires warning shots if crowds get too close to its forces. The group accused Hamas agitators of causing a panic, but gave no evidence to back the claim.. Most of Saturday’s deaths occurred as Palestinians massed in the Teina area, around two miles away from a GHF aid distribution center east of the city of Khan Younis. The Israeli military said it had fired “warning shots” near Rafah after a group of suspects approached troops and ignored calls to keep their distance. It said it was investigating reports of casualties, but noted the incident occurred overnight when the distribution site was closed. In a statement, the GHF said there were no incidents at or near its sites and said the reported Israeli shootings occurred far from the sites and hours before they opened.
The two incidents occurred near hubs operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. In other violence, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, health officials said.
The GHF launched operations in late May with backing from the U.S. and Israel. The two governments are seeking to replace the traditional U.N.-led aid distribution system in Gaza, saying that Hamas militants siphon off supplies. The U.N. denies the allegation.
While the GHF says it has distributed millions of meals to hungry Palestinians, local health officials and witnesses say that hundreds of people have been killed by Israeli army fire as they try to reach the distribution hubs.
The army, which is not at the sites but secures them from a distance, says it only fires warning shots if crowds get too close to its forces.
The GHF, which employs private armed guards, says there have been no deadly shootings at its sites, though this week, 20 people were killed at one of its locations, most of them in a stampede. The group accused Hamas agitators of causing a panic, but gave no evidence to back the claim.
Relatives of Palestinians killed at an aid distribution center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, mourn over their bodies during their funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2025. Mariam Dagga / AP
In a statement, the GHF said there were no incidents at or near its sites. It said the reported Israeli shootings occurred far from the sites and hours before they opened. “We have repeatedly warned aid seekers not to travel to our sites overnight and early morning hours,” it said.
The Israeli military said it had fired “warning shots” near Rafah after a group of suspects approached troops and ignored calls to keep their distance. It said it was investigating reports of casualties, but noted the incident occurred overnight when the distribution site was closed.
‘Indiscriminate fire’
Most of Saturday’s deaths occurred as Palestinians massed in the Teina area, around two miles away from a GHF aid distribution center east of the city of Khan Younis.
Mahmoud Mokeimar, an eyewitness, said he was walking with masses of people — mostly young men — toward the food hub. Troops fired warning shots as the crowds advanced, before opening fire toward the marching people.
“It was a massacre … the occupation opened fire at us indiscriminately,” he said. He said he managed to flee but saw at least three motionless bodies lying on the ground, and many other wounded fleeing.
Akram Aker, another witness, said troops fired machine guns mounted on tanks and drones. He said the shooting happened between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m.
“They encircled us and started firing directly at us,” he said. He said he saw many casualties lying on the ground.
Relatives of Palestinians killed at an aid distribution center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, mourn over their bodies during their funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2025. Mariam Dagga / AP
Sanaa al-Jaberi, a 55-year-old woman, said she saw many dead and wounded as she fled the area.
“We shouted: ‘food, food,’ but they didn’t talk to us. They just opened fire,” she said.
Monzer Fesifes, a Palestinian-Jordanian, said his 19-year-old son Hisham was among those killed in the Teina area.
“He went to bring food from the failed US, Zionist aid to feed us,” the father of six said, pleading for the Jordanian government to help evacuate them from the Palestinian enclave.
The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said it received 25 bodies, along with dozens wounded.
Seven other people, including one woman, were killed in the Shakoush area, hundreds of meters (yards) north of another GHF hub in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah, the hospital said. The toll was also confirmed by the health ministry.
Dr. Mohamed Saker, the head of Nasser’s nursing department, said it received 70 wounded people. He told The Associated Press that most of the casualties were shot in their heads and chests, and that some were placed in the already overwhelmed intensive care unit.
“The situation is difficult and tragic,” he said, adding that the facility lacks badly needed medical supplies to treat the daily flow of casualties.
Meanwhile, Fares Awad, head of the Health Ministry’s ambulance and emergency service in northern Gaza, confirmed the two deaths in Gaza City. He said an airstrike hit a tent in a camp sheltering displaced families in the courtyard of the Development Ministry. There were no further details on the target of the strike.
The Israeli army said it had struck some 90 targets throughout Gaza over the past day and that it had killed militants and targeted “terror infrastructure” in northern Gaza and Gaza City.
Palestinians who were injured during a food distribution at a center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, receive treatment on the floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2025. Mariam Dagga / AP
Humanitarian crisis
Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians are living through a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, and the territory is teetering on the edge of famine, according to food security experts.
Distribution at the GHF sites has often been chaotic. Boxes of food are left stacked on the ground inside the centers and, once opened, crowds charge in to grab whatever they can, according to witnesses and videos released by GHF itself.
In videos obtained recently by the AP from an American contractor working with GHF, contractors are seen using tear gas and stun grenades to keep crowds behind metal fences or to force them to disperse. Gunshots can also be heard.
Hamas triggered the ongoing 21-month war in Gaza when terrorists stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 250 others hostage.
An Israeli military offensive has killed over 58,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, displaced nearly all of Gaza’s 2 million people and caused widespread destruction.
The ministry does not say how many militants are among the dead, though it says over half were women and children. The ministry is part of the Hamas government, but is seen by the U.N. and other international organizations as the most reliable source of data on war casualties.
Israel and Hamas have been holding ceasefire talks in Qatar in recent weeks. But international mediators say there have been no breakthroughs in the talks.
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Despite that, Bhatia moved up from T-70 to T-26 for his maiden cut at the Open.
Rai, who has made all four cuts this year, made his seventh Major cut in a row. He had a best of T-19 in 2021, and interestingly his best at the US Open is also T-19 in 2024.
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He plans to compete in events like the Napa (Procore), World Wide Technology, Sanderson Farms, Japan (Baycurrent) and RSM.
He also hopes to tee up at Tiger Woods’ event, the Hero World Challenge.
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He also hoped that Akshay Bhatia and Aaron Rai do well over the weekend at Portrush.
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Gaza Civil Defence Says Israeli Attacks Kill 26 Near Two Aid Centres
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Deaths of people waiting for handouts in huge crowds near food points in Gaza have become a regular occurrence, with the territory’s authorities frequently blaming Israeli fire.
But the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is the main distributor of aid in the territory, has accused militant group Hamas of fomenting unrest and shooting at civilians.
The Israeli military said it was “looking into” the latest reports when contacted by AFP.
Civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the deaths happened near a site southwest of Khan Yunis and another centre northwest of Rafah, both in the south, attributing the deaths to “Israeli gunfire”.
One eyewitness said he headed to the Al-Tina area of Khan Yunis before dawn with five of his relatives to try to get food when “Israeli soldiers” started shooting.
“My relatives and I were unable to get anything,” Abdul Aziz Abed, 37, told AFP. “Every day I go there and all we get is bullets and exhaustion instead of food.”
Three other eyewitnesses also accused troops of opening fire.
“They started shooting at us and we lay down on the ground. Tanks and jeeps came, soldiers got out of them and started shooting,” said Tamer Abu Akar, 24.
Nine people were killed in gunfire at the same centre in the Al-Shakoush area northwest of Rafah on Friday, the civil defence agency said.
Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties in accessing many areas mean AFP is unable to independently verify tolls and details provided by the agency and other parties.
The war in Gaza, sparked by militant group Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, has created dire humanitarian conditions for the more than two million people who live in the coastal territory.
Most people have been displaced at least once by the fighting and doctors and aid agencies say the physical and mental health effects of 21 months of conflict are being increasingly seen.
“We are receiving cases suffering from extreme exhaustion and complete fatigue, in addition to severe emaciation and acute malnutrition due to prolonged lack of food,” the director of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Khan Yunis, Sohaib Al-Hums, said on Friday.
“Hundreds” of people were facing “imminent death”, he added.
The World Food Programme said nearly one in three people in Gaza were not eating for days at a stretch and “thousands” were “on the verge of catastrophic hunger”.
The free flow of aid into Gaza is a key demand of Hamas in the indirect talks with Israel for a 60-day ceasefire in the war, alongside a full Israeli military withdrawal.
Following a more than two-month total Israeli blockade, GHF took over the running of aid distribution in late May, despite criticism from the United Nations, which previously coordinated handouts, that it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives.
GHF said 20 people died at its Khan Yunis site on Wednesday but blamed “agitators in the crowd… armed and affiliated with Hamas” for creating “a chaotic and dangerous surge” and firing at aid-seekers.
The previous day, the UN said it had recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food, including 674 “in the vicinity of GHF sites”, since it began operating.
Hamas’s 2023 attack on Israel led to the deaths of 1,219 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
Of the 251 people taken hostage that day, 49 are still in Gaza, including the 27 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel’s retaliatory military action has killed 58,667 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.