Eight people seeking food among at least 18 killed by Israeli fire in Gaza

Palestinians carry sacks of flour taken from a humanitarian aid convoy (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

Hospitals in Gaza reported the killing of at least 18 people, eight of them food-seekers, by Israeli fire on Saturday as Palestinians endured severe risks in their search for food amid airdrops and restrictions on overland aid delivery.

Near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution site, Yahia Youssef, who had come to seek aid on Saturday morning, described a panicked scene now grimly familiar.