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Number of aid seekers killed by Israel in Gaza tops 1,000: UN

Mourners at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip carry the shrouded body of Palestinian Abdul Jawad al-Ghalban, 14, who died of starvation, before his burial on July 22, 2025 [AFP]

Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians as they were trying to access food in Gaza since the United States- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operations at the end of May, according to the United Nations.

“As of July 21, we have recorded 1,054 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food; 766 of them were killed in the vicinity of GHF sites and 288 near UN and other humanitarian organisations’ aid convoys,” UN human rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan told the AFP news agency on Tuesday, stating the victims had been “killed by the Israeli military”.

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