August 2, 2025

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — More than a dozen people, eight of them food-seekers, were killed by Israeli fire on Saturday, health officials in Gaza said, as Palestinians endured severe risks searching for food amid airdrops and restrictions on overland aid delivery.

Near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site, Yahia Youssef, who had come to seek aid Saturday morning, described a panicked scene now grimly familiar. After helping carry out three people wounded by gunshots, he said he looked around and saw others lying on the ground bleeding.

“It’s the same daily episode,” Youssef said.

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