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Israel kills at least 79 people in Gaza, many at US-backed aid site: Medics

Palestinians carry bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a United States-backed organisation, in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, on June 11, 2025 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]

Israeli fire and air strikes have killed at least 79 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, a number of them near an aid distribution site operated by the United States and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), according to local health authorities, the latest deaths of people desperately seeking food for their hungry families.

Medics at al-Awda and Al-Aqsa hospitals in central Gaza, where most of the casualties were moved to, said at least 15 people were killed on Saturday as they tried to approach the GHF aid distribution site near the so-called Netzarim Corridor.

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