BBC correspondent
BBC correspondent

The Hamas Civil Defense Agency said that six Palestinians were killed and many others were wounded at the last fatal incident near the relief distribution center in southern Gaza.
A spokesman for the agency said that people gathered to collect food supplies on Saturday morning when the shooting began. Reports quoted from an eyewitness said that the Israelis opened fire when people tried to advance towards the site.
The Israeli army said it launched warning shots at the suspects, who were close to them.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds of people were injured by reaching the distribution center this week.
The United States and Israeli Humanitarian Foundation, which runs the center, says it has stopped its operations to deal with overcrowding and improve safety.
But people gathered almost every day in a roundabout on the edge of an Israeli military area, through which they must pass to reach the aid site.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it had told Ghazan that the area was an active combat area during the night hours.
GHF said he was not able to distribute food on Saturday because of the direct threats of Hamas – something that the group denied.
Whatever the situation, the new accident will definitely enhance the international criticism of the new distribution model.
The United Nations insists that it endangers the Palestinians and does not provide enough food and medicine to deal with the Gaza humanitarian crisis.
Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said that at least 15 people were killed by Israeli air strikes in a residential house in Gaza City, with reports that some losses remained besieged in the rubble.
The Israeli army said that the strikes had canceled the head of a Palestinian militant group known as the Mujahideen Brigade.
The Israelis accused the group of killing and kidnapping some of the Hamas -led attacks on October 7, including a Thai citizen named Nvong Pinea.
His body was recovered in the Rafah area in southern Gaza in a special operation on Friday.
Israel recently started allowing limited assistance in Gaza after a three -month siege, which gave priority to distribution through GHF.
But the basis was steeped in controversy.
The paramedics and local health authorities reported that more than 60 Palestinians were killed due to the shooting of three days after a short period of work.
Many witnesses blamed Israeli soldiers for the killings.
The Israeli army said that it fired warning bullets in the first two days and opened fire near the Palestinian suspects who are advancing towards their positions at the third, adding that it was investigating the incidents.
The distribution center is one of the four that is operated in Gaza by GHF.
It is part of the new relief system – which humanitarian groups are widely condemned – aims to circumvent the United Nations that Israel accused of failing to prevent Hamas from converting supplies to its fighters.
The United Nations denied these allegations, noting that it could explain all the assistance it received and that the GHF system is not applicable and immoral.
Nearly 20 months have passed since Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the attack across the border led by Hamas, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken into account.
At least 54,677 people were killed in Gaza during the war, according to the Ministry of Health in the region.
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