Israeli forces kill 4 students from aid near Gaza City, the hospital and the witnesses say

Hospital and Shahda said that the Israeli forces killed four aid researchers traveling on Sunday through a military zone south of Gaza City – an area used by the Palestinians regularly in an attempt to reach the food distribution point.

Deaths add to Killing the growing Palestinians While searching for food, as parts of the Gaza Strip decline in starvation, and the military activity of Israel in northern Gaza gathered before a planned attack to seize his largest city.

A An undisputed initiative announced on Friday Familiarity in Gaza City and warned that it is possible that it would spread without a ceasefire or the end of the restrictions of humanitarian aid. Israel opposed the evaluation, saying, “There is no famine in Gaza.”

Al -Auda Hospital and two witnesses of Associated Press witnesses that the four Palestinians were killed when the forces opened fire on a crowd heading to a site run by the supported American Israeli contractor. Gaza Humanitarian CorporationOr GHF, in the Netzarim Passage area. Witnesses said that hundreds of meters (yard) happened away from the site.

Mohamed Abed, a father of two children from the Burij refugee camp, said that while some people fled after he was shot.

Abed and Emid Siad, the other researcher of aid between the crowd, said that the forces opened fire when they pushed a group near the crowd to the front towards the distribution site before its scheduled opening.

Siad said that and others helped two people who were shot and one in his shoulder and in his leg.

The Israeli army and GHF immediately did not respond to the requests for comment. Since GHF began working nearly three months ago, the United Nations says hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and killed by the Israeli Defense Forces and foreign military contractors in or near relief sites.

Deaths related to malnutrition

The four deaths are the latest in the areas where the United Nations convoys were immersed by the desperate letters and the lashes, and where people were shot and killed while they were heading to the sites run by GHF.

More than 2000 Palestinians were killed and more than 13,500 were injured while seeking assistance to distribution points or along the caravan roads used by the United Nations and other relief groups, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The ministry said on Sunday that at least 62,686 Palestinians were killed in the war, including the missing persons who have now confirmed dead by a special judicial committee of the ministry.

She said that the number of deaths related to malnutrition rose eight to 289 on Sunday. The deaths include a child, which led to the death of children to 115 since the war between Israel and Hamas began in 2023.

The Ministry of Health does not specify the number of deaths of fighters or civilians, but it says that about half of them were women and children. It is part of the Hamas government, which is run by medical professionals. The United Nations and independent experts consider it the most reliable source of war losses. Israel exceeds its numbers, but it did not provide it.

On Friday, the classification of integrated food security – the world’s leading authority in food crises – said – That famine happens In Gaza City, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are home, and it can spread south to Deir Al -Bala and Khan Yunis by the end of next month.

Relief groups have long warned that the war and months of Israeli restrictions on the food and medical supplies that enter Gaza are Hunger. Israel denied the existence of widespread hunger in Gaza, describing reports on the “lies” promoted by Hamas.

“Desitless explosions”

In Gabalia, directly populated refugee camp, north of Gaza City, the residents said they had endured heavy explosions overnight. Days after the Israeli army announced that it was intensifying its operations in the region and mobilizing tens of thousands of reserve experts to take the city, they said they lived in constant fear.

In a part of Gaza City, where he and his family have been inhabited since his displacement from a neighborhood on the southern edge of the city, Osama said that he saw that the houses are carrying the rubble and destroyed the neighborhoods that exceed the recognition.

“They want this like a Rafah,” he said, referring to a town in southern Gaza, which was destroyed earlier in the war. “There have been explosions and non -stop strikes in the past days.”

As he fled to Gabalia, the school teacher Salim Dahr said that he had seen weapons robots sow explosives as forces advanced from the opposite direction. When they put the stage to push Israel to seize the city, Dhaher said he was afraid to be part of a greater effort to remove the Palestinians by force from the north.

He said that the goal is clear: “To destroy everything above the ground, and to force the transfer.”

There was a small sign of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were sitting south before Israel invaded Gaza City, which Israel says is still the stronghold of Hamas. Many frequent displacement are exhausted and not convinced that any region-including the so-called humanitarian areas-is safe.

The military operation can begin within days in an area that threatens hundreds of thousands of civilians, who possess over an area that invaded Israel several times, but still believes in the port of a network of armed underground tunnels.

The militants, led by Hamas, kidnapped 251 people and killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, on October 7, 2023, attacks This caused war. Most of the hostages were issued in a ceasefire or other deals, but 50 are still inside Gaza, about 20 of them believed by Israel to be alive.