Gaza aid sites branded ‘human slaughterhouses’ under deadly Israeli fire

At slightest 13 Palestinians person been killed and much than 150 injured aft Israeli troops and American information contractors opened occurrence connected crowds waiting for nutrient adjacent 2 assistance organisation sites successful Gaza, 1 eastbound of Rafah and different adjacent the Wadi Gaza Bridge.

Sunday’s killings are the latest successful a bid of attacks connected civilians seeking nutrient astatine assistance centres operated by the arguable Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US-led inaugural backed by Israel successful Israeli-controlled zones.

More than 130 radical person present been killed and much than 700 wounded by Israeli troops portion desperately trying to entree meagre nutrient parcels for their bare families from the assistance sites since the GHF programme began connected May 27.

At slightest 9 radical are inactive missing.

In a statement, Gaza’s Government Media Office condemned the organisation sites arsenic “human slaughterhouses”, accusing Israeli forces of luring hopeless civilians to their deaths.

“These are warfare crimes and crimes against humanity,” the connection said, urging an autarkic planetary probe and an contiguous suspension of GHF’s transportation model.

The thrust backed by Israel and the United States has faced increasing disapproval from quality rights organisations and the United Nations for violating basal humanitarian standards and bypassing organisations that person decades of acquisition distributing assistance to the full colonisation of the besieged enclave.

‘This is simply a trap for us, not aid’

The latest bloodshed reportedly began astir 6am section clip (03:00 GMT), arsenic hundreds of Palestinians stalked by starvation gathered adjacent the assistance constituent successful the al-Alam country of Rafah.

Witnesses said radical had started forming queues arsenic aboriginal arsenic 4:30am, hopeless to get nutrient earlier the tract became overwhelmed.

“After astir an hr and a half, hundreds moved toward the site, and the service opened fire,” said witnesser Abdallah Nour al-Din.

Palestinians mourn implicit the assemblage of Ahmed Abu Hilal, killed en way to an assistance hub successful Gaza, during his ceremonial astatine Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis, Gaza, June 8, 2025 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]

The Israeli subject aboriginal said its troops opened occurrence connected individuals who “continued advancing successful a mode that endangered the soldiers”, and claimed the country had been designated an “active combat zone” astatine night. However, survivors importune the shooting took spot aft sunrise.

“This is simply a trap for us, not aid,” said Adham Dahman, speaking to the Associated Press from Nasser Hospital successful confederate Gaza with a bloodied bandage connected his chin. He said a vessel fired towards the crowd, and radical were near scrambling for cover.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that 13 wounded individuals and 1 idiosyncratic who was dormant connected accomplishment came to its session successful the al-Mawasi country of confederate Khan Younis today.

MSF said the injured and dormant were “carried successful donkey carts, connected bicycles, oregon connected foot”.

The wounded were each men betwixt the ages of 17 and 30. The victims said they were changeable successful the Shakoush country portion travelling to a nutrient organisation tract successful Saudi village.

Footage from extracurricular the infirmary showed mourning families weeping implicit blood-soaked shrouds, arsenic exigency workers rushed to dainty the wounded.

UN Special Rapporteur connected the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese called the GHF cognition “humanitarian camouflage” and “an indispensable maneuver of this genocide”.

People transportation alleviation supplies connected June 8, 2025 aft they person been distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which the United Nations and large assistance organisations person refused to cooperate with, citing concerns that GHF was designed to cater to Israeli subject objectives [Eyad Baba/AFP]

In a station connected societal media, Albanese blamed “the motivation and governmental corruption of the world” for enabling the demolition of Gaza.

Al Jazeera’s analogous Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said the GHF’s transportation exemplary has proven woefully inadequate. “Today’s deadly attacks successful the southbound amusement that the GHF is insufficient successful the mode it’s moving assistance delivery,” helium said.

“In the north, surviving conditions are becoming adjacent much difficult. People are not conscionable spending hours searching for h2o and nutrient — they are spending the full day. By the extremity of it, galore are wholly exhausted and dehydrated, simply due to the fact that they could not find anything.”

An unnamed GHF authoritative claimed determination has been nary unit successful oregon astir its assistance organisation sites, each 3 of which delivered nutrient connected Sunday, according to The Associated Press.

Hospitals overwhelmed

The unit comes arsenic Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that the full decease toll from Israel’s ongoing warfare has reached 54,880, with much than 126,000 injured since October 7, 2023. Since Israel ended a ceasefire connected March 18, 4,603 Palestinians person been killed and much than 14,000 injured.

In conscionable the past 24 hours, Israeli strikes person killed astatine slightest 108 radical and wounded astir 400 much crossed the besieged enclave, the ministry said.

Hospitals are overwhelmed and connected the brink of collapse, the ministry said.

Rafah’s Red Cross Field Hospital has declared 12 wide casualty emergencies successful conscionable 2 weeks, with much than 900 wounded arriving during that play — 41 of them already dead. Most of those treated had been trying to scope nutrient organisation sites erstwhile they were changeable oregon injured.

A spokesperson astatine Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital successful Deir el-Balah warned that substance supplies for Gaza’s wellness facilities whitethorn tally retired wrong 48 hours, leaving patients without care. “The hospital’s artificial kidney section is retired of work owed to the occupation’s attacks,” helium told Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, the manager of al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera that the lives of 300 kidney nonaccomplishment patients bent successful the balance. “We are facing a existent catastrophe successful the infirmary if energy is not provided,” helium warned.