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Live updates: Israel eases some Gaza aid restrictions as more Palestinians starve [1]
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Date: 2025-07-27 05:20:18.717000+00:00
People surround the body of a Palestinian woman who was killed while seeking aid at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution point in Gaza on Sunday. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images
As the Israeli military began what it called a “tactical pause” in operations in three parts of Gaza, a dozen people were reported to have been killed while trying to get food aid from a distribution point in central Gaza on Sunday.
Al-Awda Hospital said it received 12 bodies, including those of four children and one woman, and treated more than 100 people who had been injured after Israeli forces opened fire near an aid point operated by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
It’s unclear whether the incident occurred before the tactical pause came into effect at 10 a.m. local time, nor whether it was inside the area covered by the pause.
The Israel Defense Forces told CNN on Sunday that it was “not aware of any casualties” after its troops fired what it described as “warning shots” near an aid distribution site. The military claimed a “gathering of suspects” had endangered its troops in the area.
“The warning shots were not fired at the aid distribution site, but at a distance of hundreds of meters away from it, prior to its opening hours,” the IDF said.
More victims arrive at hospitals: There have also been further casualties among people seeking aid in northern Gaza, according to hospital officials.
At least 11 bodies have been brought into Al-Shifa Hospital since Saturday afternoon from the area used by aid convoys coming in from the Zikim crossing, according to Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the hospital’s director.
Abu Salmiya told CNN that 120 injured people had also arrived at the hospital.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said its field hospital in the north had received two bodies and 54 wounded people after “the targeting of civilians waiting for aid in the Zikim area” in the north-west of Gaza Strip and an airstrike in Gaza City.
This post has been updated with a response from the IDF.
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