Gaza – Zaytoun News
Israel on Tuesday evening killed over 30 desperate Palestinians seeking aid, northwest of Gaza City, according to Palestinian local sources.
Thes sources said that Israeli occupation soldiers fired at the desperate crowds of Palestinians seeking aid as they gathered at an aid distribution point to the northwest of the city, claiming the lives of over 30.
Earlier today, the occupation forces had fired at Palestinians seeking food aid in the cities of Khan Younes and Rafah in the southern war-battered Strip with tank shells, machine guns and drones, killing more than 60 civilians and injuring approximately 200 others.
The enclave has been suffering from a catastrophic humanitarian disaster since Israel closed all crossings on March 2, 2025, denying the entry of food, medicine, relief aid, and fuel to the Strip.
Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians.
The death toll reached at least 5,194 with 17,279 others wounded, according to medical sources. In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 61 slain Palestinians, including six retrieved from the rubble, and 397 casualties were admitted to Gaza hospitals.
Since the morning hours of Tuesday, the bodies of 59 Palestinians slain and over 200 others injured while waiting to receive food were admitted to Gaza hospitals.
Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 55,493 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 129,320 others, bringing the total number of fatalities and casualties from among food seekers to 397 and over 3,031 respectively.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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