Name: Israeli tank shells kill many Gazans awaiting aid | REUTERS
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Israel's military fired tank shells at crowds of desperate people waiting for aid trucks on Tuesday, killing dozens.

That's according to medics in Gaza's Health Ministry.

As many of the at least 200 wounded streamed into Nasser Hospital.

At least two tank shells were fired at the crowds waiting along a main road in Khan Yunis, witnesses said.

It was the latest of nearly daily mass deaths of Palestinians seeking aid over the past few weeks.

We went to wait like other people to get food for our children, says Muaid Qaddas.

We haven't seen food or drink for six months.

All of a sudden, they made us move forward and made everyone gather, and then shells started falling, tank shells, F-16 shells, and from quadcopters.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

Local health officials said at least 23 people were killed by Israeli gunfire on Monday, as they approached a distribution site in Rafa run by the US and Israel backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Many of those killed have been near such distribution sites, which are guarded by Israeli troops and rejected by the United Nations as militarized.

This on Tuesday was Thanos Gargavanes, a World Health Organization trauma surgeon and emergency officer.

We have all to be aware that the recent food distribution initiatives by non-UN actors every time result in mass casualty incidents.

The United Nations know what has to be done in Gaza.

We know how to deliver care, we know how to support partners, we know how to do our job.

But to make the very best of our presence here, we have to be allowed and facilitated.

In previous incidents, Israel has occasionally acknowledged troops opening fire near aid sites and blamed militants for provoking the violence.

The GHF stated in a media release later on Monday that it had distributed more than 3 million meals at its four distribution sites without incident.

US ally Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry.

While internally displacing nearly the entire population and causing a hunger crisis.

It has also triggered accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice and of war crimes at the International Criminal Court.

The war was triggered in October 2023, when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.