Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes have killed at least 27 Palestinians today, including 10 near a water distribution point.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP news agency that houses and displacement shelters were among the targets hit overnight.
Medical sources confirmed that a total of 27 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since the start of the day, 18 of them in Nuseirat alone.
Thousands of victims are feared trapped under rubble, inaccessible to emergency and civil defense teams due to Israeli attacks.
Israel's genocidal attacks continue unabated despite calls from the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and directives from the International Court of Justice urging measures to prevent genocide and alleviate the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Dozens of Palestinians reportedly killed while seeking aid as more perish in Israeli air strikes
At least 31 Palestinians have been fatally shot on their way to an aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip, while Israeli air strikes have killed at least 28 Palestinians, including four children, on the same day, according to Palestinian hospital officials and witnesses.
There were no signs of a breakthrough in ceasefire talks following two days of meetings between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Mr Trump had said he was nearing an agreement between Israel and Hamas that would potentially wind down the war.
Those shot dead were on their way to a distribution site run by the Israeli-backed American organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) near Rafah in southern Gaza, hospital officials and witnesses said.
The Red Cross said its field hospital saw its largest influx of dead in more than a year of operation after the shootings, and that the overwhelming majority of the more than 100 people hurt had gunshot wounds.
Air strikes in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah killed 13, including the four children, officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said.
Fifteen others were killed in Khan Younis in the south, according to Nasser Hospital.
Israel's military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Intense air strikes continued on Saturday evening in the area of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.
"Arrogance is what brought the disaster upon us," former hostage Eli Sharabi said of Israeli leaders.
Teen's first attempt to pick up food ends in death
The 21-month war has left much of Gaza's population of more than 2 million reliant on outside aid, with food security experts warning of famine.
Israel blocked and then restricted aid entry after ending the latest ceasefire in March.
"All responsive individuals reported they were attempting to access food distribution sites," the Red Cross said after the shootings near Rafah, noting the "alarming frequency and scale" of such mass casualty incidents.
Israel's military said it fired warning shots toward people it said were behaving suspiciously to prevent them from approaching.
It said it was not aware of any casualties.
The GHF said no incident occurred near its sites.
Sumaya al-Sha'er's 17-year-old son, Nasir, was killed, hospital officials said.
"He said to me, 'Mom, you don't have flour and today I'll go and bring you flour, even if I die, I'll go and get it,'" she said.
"But he never came back home."
Until then, she said, she had prevented the teenager from going to GHF sites because she thought it was too dangerous.
Mohammed Jamal al-Sahloo, another witness, said Israel's military had ordered them to proceed to the site when the shooting started.
Witnesses, health officials and UN officials say hundreds have been killed by Israeli fire while heading toward GHF distribution points through military zones off limits to independent media.
The GHF denied there had been violence in or around its sites. But two of its contractors told The Associated Press that their colleagues had fired live ammunition and stun grenades as Palestinians scrambled for food, allegations the foundation denied.
The first fuel — 150,000 litres — entered Gaza this week after 130 days, a joint statement by UN aid bodies said, calling it a small amount for "the backbone of survival in Gaza".
Fuel runs hospitals, water systems, transport and more, the statement said.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 57,882 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 138,095 others injured.
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