Updated death toll comes amid condemnation of US-backed aid delivery scheme and Israeli bombing across the enclave.
At least 10 Palestinians desperately seeking aid from a contentious and heavily criticized United States-backed organization have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza over the last 48 hours, according to the besieged enclave’s Government Media Office.
The updated toll on Wednesday comes a day after a harrowing video showed thousands of starving Palestinians rushing to get aid, with many of them herded into cage-like lines, from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution point in Rafah in southern Gaza. In a statement, the Government Media Office said Israeli forces “opened direct fire on hungry Palestinian civilians who had gathered to receive aid” at the distribution site, wounding at least 62 people.
It was not immediately clear exactly how many incidents of gunfire occurred or on which days the 10 Palestinians were fatally shot, but there were deaths on both days.
“These locations were transformed into death traps under the occupation’s gunfire,” the media office said, decrying the killings as a “heinous crime”. For its part, the GHF said it had opened a second of a planned four aid distribution sites in Gaza on Wednesday.
Source: aljazeera.com/ betebet
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
