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Gaza City, June 21 (EFE) - The Israeli army killed at least 18 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, including 11 who were waiting for food near two militarized distribution points operated by North American contractors, medical sources confirmed to EFE.
At least five bodies and another 15 injured people arrived at Al Awda hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp (center), after being attacked by Israeli troops while trying to obtain food near Salah al Din street, south of the northern Wadi Gaza area, where one of the distribution points of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is located.
Up to that point in the center of the Strip, UN trucks also usually arrive.
West of the southern city of Rafah, where another GHF distribution point is located, Israeli forces killed another six Gazans and wounded at least ten, according to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa.
Since May 27, when this new, very limited aid distribution model began operating, forcing Gazans to travel kilometers to try to obtain food, crossing combat zones, more than 400 Palestinians have died in attacks near these points, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Therefore, UN agencies and other humanitarian organizations already describe this mechanism as "a death trap" for a starving civilian population and are calling on Israel to open the border crossings and allow the mass entry of aid. On the other hand, Israeli planes bombed this Saturday the Zeitoun neighborhood, in the northern Gaza City, killing three civilians and causing an undetermined number of injuries that were taken to the Baptist Hospital of the city. In the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of the Gazan capital, another airstrike killed three brothers, according to Wafa, and a fourth Gazan died northwest of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has intensified its attacks on the Gaza Strip in recent days, medical sources confirmed to EFE, despite having launched a new offensive against Iran on the 13th. In total, since the beginning of the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian enclave, more than 55,700 Gazans have died from Army attacks, the majority women and children, according to Health data that does not include deaths from illness or hunger.
