Over 30 killed in Israeli attack on Gazans getting aid in Rafah
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Over 30 Palestinians were killed and over 150 were wounded as Israeli occupation forces targeted a humanitarian aid distribution point in Rafah, southern Gaza.
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Several bodies of those killed in the Israeli attack on a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution point in Rafah, Gaza, Occupied Palestine, June 1 2025 (social media)
The Israeli occupation forces committed a massacre against Palestinians in Gaza as they headed toward a distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Mawasi, Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, early Sunday, killing more than 30 people.
The attack also left more than 150 civilians wounded; Gazans have been starved by the Israeli occupation and had gathered at a humanitarian aid distribution point, according to Al Mayadeen's correspondent.
With this massacre, the total number of victims from Israeli strikes on these so-called "aid distribution points" has risen to 47 killed and over 255 wounded in less than a week.
In response, the Gaza government media office described these areas as "mass death traps rather than humanitarian relief points," asserting that what is happening amounts to "a systematic and malicious use of aid as a weapon of war, employed to blackmail starving civilians and forcibly gather them in exposed killing zones."
The media office further clarified that these killing zones are "managed and monitored by the occupation army, while being funded and politically covered by both the occupation and the US administration, who bear full moral and legal responsibility for these crimes."
The office emphasized that this scheme essentially masks the occupation's security and military agenda, creating a deceptive facade of humanitarian action while Israeli authorities systematically seal official border crossings and obstruct impartial international agencies from delivering meaningful aid to Gaza's starving population.
In the early morning hours, Israeli forces also bombed the Qizan al-Najjar area south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, while carrying out demolition operations in the eastern part of the city.
The Israeli bombardment extended to the Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, where the Israeli Occupation Forces launched artillery strikes on its northeastern areas, while Israeli artillery, military vehicles, and warplanes also targeted the vicinity of Jabal Al-Sorani east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood.
Israeli forces also carried out artillery strikes on northwestern Gaza City while their warplanes simultaneously targeted areas in the northwest of the Gaza Strip.
