Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli forces opened fire on crowds of Palestinians trying to collect humanitarian aid on Sunday, killing 93 people and wounding dozens more.
Eighty were killed as truckloads of aid arrived in the north, while nine others were reported shot near an aid point close to Rafah in the south, where dozens of people lost their lives just 24 hours earlier.
Four were killed near another aid site in Khan Yunis, also in the south, agency spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said its 25-truck convoy carrying food aid "encountered massive crowds of hungry civilians which came under gunfire" near Gaza City, soon after it crossed from Israel and cleared checkpoints.
Israel's military disputed the death toll and said soldiers had fired warning shots "to remove an immediate threat posed to them" as thousands gathered near Gaza City.
The UN said earlier this month that nearly 800 aid-seekers had been killed since late May, including on the routes of aid convoys. Meanwhile, Gaza health authorities reported some 995 deaths.
A man sits on a bench as smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip near Beit Hanoun, as seen from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, July 20, 2025. /VCG
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The WFP condemned violence against civilians seeking aid as "completely unacceptable."
Israel on Sunday withdrew the residency permit of head of the OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) office in Israel, Jonathan Whittall, who has repeatedly condemned the humanitarian conditions in Gaza.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, in a post to X, accused him of spreading lies about the war in Gaza.
Palestinians are seen moving toward areas they believe to be safer, carrying their belongings, after an evacuation warning by the Israeli army in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, July 20, 2025. /VCG
UN: Evacuation order 'devastating' to aid efforts
On Sunday morning, the Israeli military told residents and displaced Palestinians sheltering in the Deir el-Balah area to move south immediately due to imminent operations in the area.
The displacement order was "another devastating blow to the already fragile lifelines keeping people alive across the Gaza Strip," the UN's OCHA said on Sunday.
According to the aid agency, 87.8 percent of Gaza is now under displacement orders or within Israeli militarized zones, leaving "2.1 million civilians squeezed into a fragmented 12 percent of the Strip, where essential services have collapsed."
The army's latest announcement prompted concern from families of hostages held since October 7, 2023 that the Israeli offensive could harm their loved ones.
Delegations from Israel and Hamas have spent the last two weeks in indirect talks on a proposed 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and the release of 10 living hostages.
(With input from AFP)
(Cover: Palestinians gather at a food distribution point in Gaza City, July 20, 2025. /VCG)
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