Israeli Military Brutal Attack Kills 30 People In Gaza

JAKARTA - Israeli gunfire and attacks killed 30 people in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Palestinians there said their suffering was forgotten because attention turned to air warfare between Israel and Iran.

The deaths include the latest in the nearly daily killing of Palestinians seeking help in the three weeks since Israel lifted part of the total blockade in Gaza which has been in place for nearly three months.

As reported by Reuters on Wednesday, June 18, medics said separate airstrikes against houses in the Maghazi refugee camps and the Zeitoun neighborhood in central and northern Gaza killed 14 people.

While five others were killed in airstrikes against a tent camp in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Eleven other people were killed in Israeli fire at a crowd of displaced Palestinians waiting for aid trucks carried by the United Nations along Jalan Salahuddin in central Gaza.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was investigating reported deaths from people waiting for food.

Regarding another attack, the IDF called the attack to dismantle Hamas military capabilities and appropriate precautions to reduce civilian hazards.

On Tuesday, June 17, Gaza's Ministry of Health said 397 Palestinians among those seeking food aid had been killed and more than 3,000 others injured since aid deliveries resumed in late May.

Some in Gaza have expressed concern that the latest escalation in the war between Israel and Hamas which began in October 2023 will be ignored as it focuses on turning to the Israeli conflict that has lasted for five days with Iran.

"People were slaughtered in Gaza, day and night, but attention has turned to the Iran-Israeli war. There has been little news about Gaza lately," said Adel, a resident of Gaza City.

"Anyone who doesn't die from an Israeli bomb dies from hunger. People risk their lives every day for food, and they are also killed and their blood litters the sacks of flour they think they have won," he told Reuters.