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Israeli fire kills 25 people in Gaza Strip: medics

By AAP Newswire

Jun 16, 2025

People carry bags containing food and aid from GHF — The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing food packages in the Gaza Strip in May. -AP

Israeli fire and air strikes have killed at least 25 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, local health authorities say, at least five of them near two aid sites operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

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Medics at al-Awda Hospital in the central Gaza Strip said at least three people were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire as they tried to approach a GHF site near the Netzarim corridor.

Two others were killed en route to another aid site in Rafah in the south.

An air strike killed seven other people in Beit Lahiya town north of the enclave, medics said.

The rest were killed in separate air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip, they added.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

The GHF began distributing food packages in the enclave at the end of May after Israel partially lifted a near three-month total blockade.

Scores of Palestinians have been killed in near-daily mass shootings trying to reach the food.

The United Nations rejects the Israeli-backed new distribution system as inadequate, dangerous and a violation of humanitarian impartiality principles.

By AAP Newswire

Australian Associated Press