Israeli fire and strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 30 people on Sunday, local health authorities said, as some Palestinians there said their plight was being forgotten as attention shifted to the air war between Israel and Iran.
The deaths are the latest in a near-daily killing spree of Palestinians seeking help in the past three weeks since Israel partially lifted a complete blockade of Gaza that it had imposed for nearly three months.
Doctors said separate airstrikes on homes in the Magazi refugee camp and the Zeytun settlement in central and northern Gaza killed at least 14 people, while five were killed in an airstrike on a tent camp in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Eleven were killed in Israeli fire on displaced Palestinians waiting for trucks carrying aid delivered by the United Nations (UN) along the Salahudin Road in central Gaza, medics said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was investigating the reported deaths of people waiting for food. As for the other strikes, the IDF said it was "operating to dismantle Hamas' military capabilities" and "taking feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm."
Gaza's health ministry said on Tuesday that 397 Palestinians among those trying to receive food aid had been killed and more than 3.000 wounded since aid deliveries resumed in late May.
Some people in Gaza have expressed concern that the latest escalations in the war between Israel and Hamas, which began in October 2023, will be overlooked as the focus shifts to Israel's conflict with Iran.
"People in Gaza are being slaughtered, day and night, but the attention is focused on the war between Iran and Israel. There is little news about Gaza these days," said Adel, a resident of Gaza City.
"Whoever doesn't die from Israeli bombs, dies of hunger. People risk their lives every day to get food, and they too are killed, and their blood smears the sacks of flour," he told Reuters.
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