Six Gazans Died As A Result Of Israeli Shots While Waiting For A Truck Transporting Aid

JAKARTA - Israeli fire killed six Palestinians and injured dozens more, as crowds waited for aid trucks in Gaza City, Gaza Health Ministry officials said on Thursday.

Palestinians rushed to get supplies of aid at a Kuwaitian roundabout north of Gaza City on Wednesday night, when Israeli forces opened fire, residents and health officials said.

While in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza, an Israeli missile hit the house, killing nine people on Thursday, Palestinian medics said.

Residents said Israeli air and land bombings continued throughout the night in the enclave including in the southern Rafah, where more than one million refugees took refuge.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the incident.

Gaza's Ministry of Health said on Thursday that Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip had killed 69 Palestinians and injured 110 others in the past 24 hours.

The ministry also said 31,341 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza since last October, in Thursday's announcement, adding that the number of injured victims has now reached 73,134 people, quoted from Anadolu.

The war has prompted 85 percent of Gaza's population to flee amid food shortages, clean water and medicines, while most of the bag's regional infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed.

Separately, the United Nations warned that at least 576,000 people in Gaza, a quarter of Gaza's population, were on the verge of starvation, as the war had entered its fifth month.