Gaza aid line targeted: Dozens killed, UN confirms 798 dead at sites
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Amid relentless bombardment, people in Gaza face deadly risks even at food lines, with UN figures exposing the human cost of "Israel’s" siege schemes.
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Palestinian youth Youssef Abd Rabbo cries over the body of his mother, Manal Abd Rabbo, who was among 10 people, including two women and five children, killed in an Israeli strike while they were waiting to receive nutritional supplements at a Project Hope-run medical clinic in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 10, 2025 (AP)
Israeli occupation forces launched widespread bombardment across the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least 15 Palestinians since dawn, including 10 individuals waiting for humanitarian aid in the al-Shakoush area, northwest of Rafah in southern Gaza, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported. Emergency services also reported over 60 people wounded in the same attack, as people gathered to collect food and basic supplies.
In southern Gaza, Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the southwestern outskirts of Khan Younis after a two-day incursion that left behind a trail of destruction, as per our correspondent. Tents sheltering forcibly displaced families were bulldozed, and a mass grave containing dozens of unidentified bodies previously kidnapped by "Israel" was razed.
Reports indicate that additional graves were deliberately unearthed during the operation, further underscoring the pattern of desecration and collective punishment, not to mention reports of organ theft.
Earlier on Friday, two more Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on Al-Satar Al-Gharbi, northwest of Khan Younis. Artillery fire also targeted areas in Kanis, Batn Al-Samin, and other parts of the city’s western and southwestern regions, as per our correspondent.
Aid distribution point bombed in central Gaza
In central Gaza, Israeli forces struck a crowd waiting near a food distribution point south of Wadi Gaza, causing several casualties, our correspondent reported. This is one of several recent incidents in which Palestinians gathering for humanitarian assistance have been targeted.
In Gaza City, Israeli artillery shelled the eastern neighborhoods, including al-Tuffah, where a residential home was bombed, resulting in fatalities and injuries. Another home near Al-Yarmouk Mosque in the city’s west was also struck.
In the al-Zaytoun and al-Sabra neighborhoods, Israeli drones launched strikes on civilians, including a group of people bombed while standing in a street. At least five people were injured near the al-Nazla roundabout in northern Gaza when an Israeli quadcopter dropped explosives.
Naval units also opened fire along Gaza’s coastline, while airstrikes hit a historic building in downtown Gaza.
UN: Nearly 800 killed near Gaza aid sites
The UN human rights office reported Friday that it has documented at least 798 Palestinian fatalities linked to aid distribution points in Gaza, including those operated by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), as well as sites near humanitarian convoys run by other relief agencies, including the United Nations.
The GHF, which began "distributing aid" in late May, relies on private US logistics and security contractors to deliver supplies into Gaza, bypassing the UN-coordinated aid system that "Israel" has accused of being vulnerable to diversion by Palestinian Resistance groups. The UN, however, has strongly criticized this parallel framework, calling it “inherently unsafe” and a violation of humanitarian neutrality principles.
"Up until the seventh of July, we've recorded now 798 killings, including 615 in the vicinity of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, and 183 presumably on the route of aid convoys," said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), during a press briefing in Geneva.
