Over 115 Palestinians, including 92 aid seekers, killed in one day as Gaza’s famine escalates under Israeli siege.

Deaths of civilians seeking aid have become a regular occurrence in Gaza, with the authorities blaming Israeli fire as crowds facing chronic shortages of food and other essentials flock in huge numbers to aid centres. The UN said earlier this month that nearly 800 aid-seekers had been killed since late May, including on the routes of aid convoys.

Gaza authorities reported Israeli forces fatally shot 93 Palestinians seeking aid on Sunday, with incidents occurring near Gaza City, Rafah, and Khan Yunis. The UN World Food Programme reported their aid convoy faced gunfire amidst desperate crowds.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) has accused Israel of “ starving civilians ”, including a million children in Gaza, by blocking vital food and medicine deliveries into the besieged enclave.

Amid escalating violence, the Israeli military issues new evacuation warnings in central Gaza, affecting aid distribution. Despite ongoing ceasefire talks, military activities persist, and humanitarian conditions worsen.

A humanitarian aid convoy of 25 trucks came under fire after crossing the Zikim border crossing into northern Gaza, where food insecurity is at its most extreme, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Sunday.

Israelis assert casualties are high because Hamas uses civilians as “human shields.” But Hamas fighters are intermixed with civilians because they live crammed together in densely populated ...

It was 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 17, in a complex of apartment buildings at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, and Israel had just declared it would impose a unilateral ceasefire to begin at 2 ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, according to church officials. The late Pope Francis, who died in April, had regularly spoken to the priest about the war’s toll on civilians.