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GAZA/TEL AVIV — The Israeli military has again killed people waiting near a distribution centre for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, German Press Agency (dpa) reported, citing Hamas authorities.
The Hamas-controlled health authority said there had been at least 45 fatalities and hundreds injured in the south of the sealed-off coastal area. It did not give any details.
Eyewitnesses told dpa that some people were on foot and others in vehicles on their way to a distribution centre when the Israeli army shelled them in an area between the cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.
The information cannot be independently verified. Israel’s army has not yet commented on the reports.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is supported by Israel and the United States (US), began its mission in the Gaza Strip last month following an almost three-month-long Israeli blockade of aid supplies.
The distribution is intended as an alternative to the distribution of aid by the United Nations and international aid organisations. Both these groups have criticised the GHF.
Israel and the US say the distribution by the GHF prevents Hamas from appropriating humanitarian aid supplies.
On several occasions, people have been reported killed near the distribution centres.
Israel on previous occasions said they had fired at people who were not following prescribed routes. The GHF has previously said that the deaths have occurred outside their own security zone. — BERNAMA-dpa
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