AN aid group operating in Gaza has said it is "heartbroken" after an Israeli attack on its headquarters saw one staff member killed and three others injured.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PCRS) said worker Omar Isleem had been killed in what it described as a deliberate attack on its building.
In a statement, the group said: "Our headquarter's location is well known to the occupying forces and clearly marked with the protective red emblem. This was not a mistake."
It added: "We renew our call for accountability and for the protection of all humanitarian and medical personnel."
PCRS also shared footage of the building on fire and filled with smoke, with blood stains visible.
The IDF told the BBC it had "no knowledge about neither artillery nor any air strikes" in the area.
Meanwhile Israeli forces killed at least 23 Palestinians seeking food on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, according to hospital officials.
Witnesses described facing gunfire as hungry crowds surged around aid sites as the malnutrition-related death toll surged.
Yousef Abed, among the crowds en-route to a distribution point, described coming under what he called indiscriminate fire, looking around and seeing at least three people bleeding on the ground.
“I couldn’t stop and help them because of the bullets,” he said.
Southern Gaza’s Nasser Hospital said it had received bodies from near multiple distribution sites, including eight from Teina, about 1.8 miles from a distribution site in Khan Younis run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) – a private US and Israeli-backed contractor that took over aid distribution more than two months ago.
The hospital also received one body from Shakoush, near a different GHF site in Rafah. Another nine were killed by troops near the Morag corridor who were awaiting trucks entering Gaza through an Israeli border crossing, it said.
Three Palestinian eyewitnesses, seeking food in Teina and Morag, said the shootings occurred on the route to the distribution points, which are in military zones secured by Israeli forces. They said they saw soldiers open fire on hungry crowds advancing towards the troops.
Further north in central Gaza, hospital officials described a similar episode, with Israeli troops opening fire on Sunday morning towards crowds of Palestinians trying to get to GHF’s fourth and northern-most distribution point.
“Troops were trying to prevent people from advancing,” one witness said. “They opened fire and we fled. Some people were shot.”
At least five people were killed and 27 were injured at GHF’s site near the Netzarim corridor, Awda Hospital said.
Eyewitnesses seeking food in Gaza have reported similar gunfire attacks in recent days near aid distribution sites, leaving dozens of Palestinians dead.
The United Nations reported 859 people were killed near GHF sites from May 27 to July 31, and hundreds more have been killed along the routes of UN-led food convoys.
