At least 22 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces ‘fire on crowds at food aid sites’

Palestinians check a tent that was damaged after an Israeli strike in the backyard of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip. Picture: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

Israeli forces killed at least 22 people and wounded 20 others, many of whom were attempting to get desperately needed food aid in southern Gaza, according to witnesses, hospitals and Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said it received the bodies of 11 people who were shot while returning from an aid site associated with Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund in southern Gaza on Monday, part of a deadly pattern that has killed more than 500 Palestinians in the chaotic and controversial aid distribution programme over the past month.