Israeli strikes have killed at least 140 people across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, health officials said on Wednesday.
At least 40 of the total number killed over the past day were killed as a result of Israeli gunfire and airstrikes on Wednesday, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
Among them are Palestinians killed while waiting to receive food aid, as has happened almost every day in the three weeks since Israel partially lifted its complete blockade on the territory.
Medical workers said separate airstrikes on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp, the Zeitoun neighborhood and central and northern Gaza City killed at least 21 people.
Meanwhile, five others were killed in an airstrike on a camp in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza.
Fourteen more people were killed by Israeli fire on crowds of displaced Palestinians waiting for trucks carrying aid brought by the United Nations along the Salahudin Road in central Gaza, according to medics.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they are investigating reports of deaths of people waiting for food aid.
Regarding the other attacks, the IDF stated that they are "acting to destroy Hamas' military capabilities" and are taking "possible measures to limit harm to civilians."
Hamas is a militant group declared a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.
On Tuesday, the Gaza Health Ministry said 397 Palestinians trying to receive food aid have been killed and more than 3,000 injured since aid deliveries resumed in late May.
Some in Gaza expressed concern that the latest escalation of the war between Israel and Hamas, which began in October 2023, is being overlooked as attention has shifted to the conflict between Israel and Iran that began last week.
"They are massacring us in Gaza, day and night, but the attention has shifted to the Israel-Iran war. There is very little news about Gaza these days," said Adel, a resident of Gaza City.
"Whoever doesn't die from Israeli bombs, dies of hunger. People risk their lives every day to get food, and end up killed, with their blood staining the sacks of flour they thought they had earned," he told Reuters via a messaging app.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking nearly 250 hostages. Israel says 58 hostages remain in Gaza, although about 35 are believed to be dead.
Since then, Israel's war has killed more than 55,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials. (A2 Televizion)
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