US-backed GHF says Gaza aid sites remain shut as Israeli attacks kill 42

At slightest 42 radical person been killed successful Israeli attacks crossed Gaza connected Eid-al-Adha, aesculapian sources told Al Jazeera, arsenic the US-backed radical distributing assistance successful the Palestinian territory said each its centres were closed until further notice.

The dormant bodies of 16 radical arrived astatine Nasser Hospital successful the confederate metropolis of Khan Younis connected Friday, section wellness authorities said, portion different 16 were brought to Al-Shifa Hospital successful bluish Gaza, 5 to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital successful Gaza City, and 5 much to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital successful Deir el-Balah.

“This is however Eid looks present successful Gaza,” said Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu-Azoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah connected the archetypal time of the Muslim beatified festival usually marked by joy. This twelvemonth the time “is a precise grim reminder of what they person mislaid and however they are forced to header with unimaginable circumstances” amid bombardment, displacement and loss, helium added.

Meanwhile, a writer who was wounded successful an Israeli onslaught connected Ahli Hospital connected Thursday succumbed to their injures, raising the fig of journalists killed successful Gaza since the opening of the warfare to 226, Gaza’s Government Media Office said connected Friday.

The bureau called connected “all journalistic bodies successful each countries of the satellite to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals successful the Gaza Strip”.

“We besides telephone connected them to exert superior and effectual unit to halt the transgression of genocide, support journalists and media professionals successful the Gaza Strip, and halt their killing,” it added.

Separately successful Gaza connected Friday, 4 Israeli soldiers were killed successful combat successful Khan Younis erstwhile a booby-trapped gathering they were successful exploded, according to a preliminary Israeli service probe cited by section media. This brings the full fig of Israeli soldiers killed since the opening of the week successful Gaza to eight, reported Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut from Amman.

Aid sites stay closed

Friday’s deaths travel arsenic the US-backed radical tasked with distributing assistance successful Gaza said its hubs would stay closed until further notice, contempt a increasing hunger situation successful the territory.

Aid agencies person warned that each residents successful Gaza look the menace of famine aft Israel imposed a terrible blockade connected the territory successful March, blocking the introduction of food, medicine and fuel. Amid planetary pressure, Israel allowed immoderate assistance to participate Gaza past month, but assistance groups person warned the amounts are inadequate.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a antecedently chartless radical that is overseeing the assistance organisation effort, advised radical to enactment distant from the assistance organisation hubs “for their safety”.

GHF, which began distributing assistance past week, said successful a Facebook station connected Friday that details astir reopening would beryllium announced later.

Operations astatine the group’s assistance organisation hubs were halted earlier this week pursuing respective incidents of deadly violence adjacent the sites, successful which Israeli forces opened occurrence connected Palestinian assistance seekers. Only 2 sites distributed assistance connected Thursday.

On Sunday, thousands of radical headed towards the organisation tract hours earlier dawn. As they approached, Israeli forces ordered them to disperse and travel backmost later. When the crowds reached the Flag Roundabout, 1km (0.6 mile) away, astatine astir 3am, Israeli forces opened fire, witnesses said.

“There was occurrence from each directions, from naval warships, from tanks and drones,” said Amr Abu Teiba, who was successful the crowd.

Goher Rahbour, a surgeon moving successful Gaza’s Khan Younis, told Al Jazeera that the bullets extracted from victims of the shooting adjacent the assistance organisation centre connected Sunday were from M16 battle guns, accordant with those utilized by the Israeli military.

“I operated connected 2 patients and we removed M16 bullets from abdominal injuries,” Rahbour told Al Jazeera. “When I spoke to these patients, they were precise wide to accidental they came from Israeli forces.”

The surgeon besides said hospitals were operating with small oregon nary resources. “There is simply a deficiency of everything – antibiotics, swabs, surgical instruments,” helium said.

The GHF’s attack has been fiercely criticised by humanitarian organisations, including the United Nations.

The GHF says backstage information contractors guarding its sites person not fired connected crowds.

Israel’s subject has acknowledged firing informing shots connected erstwhile occasions.

Israel’s warfare connected Gaza has killed astatine slightest 54,677 Palestinians and wounded 125,530, Gaza’s Health Ministry said connected Thursday.

An estimated 1,139 radical were killed successful Israel during the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, and much than 200 were taken captive.

On Thursday, mediators Qatar and Egypt announced renewed efforts to unafraid a ceasefire woody based connected a US-backed connection for a 60-day truce and the introduction of humanitarian aid.

Previous ceasefire efforts have, however, repeatedly breached down implicit Israel’s rejection of cardinal terms.

In past rounds of negotiations, Israel has walked backmost commitments related to a imperishable halt to the warfare and a afloat withdrawal of its troops from Gaza.