Women cry as they mourn the death of a loved one killed during overnight Israeli bombardment on June 12, 2025, at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. AFP
The distribution of food and basic supplies under the US-Israeli new system in Gaza has become increasingly fraught and perilous, exacerbating the territory's deep hunger crisis.
Civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir told AFP that the Al-Awda Hospital received 10 dead and around 200 wounded, including women and children, "after Israeli drones dropped multiple bombs on gatherings of civilians near an aid distribution point around the Netzarim checkpoint in central Gaza".
He said that Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital received six dead following Israeli attacks on aid queues near Netzarim and in the Al-Sudaniya area in northwestern Gaza.
Mughayyir said another six people were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza.
The US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) alleged that the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas attacked aid workers en route to a distribution centre on Wednesday, saying at least five people were killed.
GHF said a bus carrying its staff to a distribution site near the southern city of Khan Yunis was "brutally attacked by Hamas" around 10:00 pm (1900 GMT).
In an email to AFP, the resistance group added that all five of the people killed were Palestinian aid workers for GHF.
However, a unit of Gaza's police force said it killed 12 members of an Israeli-backed militia after detaining them early Thursday.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire while trying to reach GHF distribution points since they began operating in late May, according to Gaza's civil defence agency.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online
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