ISRAELI forces have killed at least six Palestinians this morning near an aid distribution site in Gaza.
Sources at Nasser Medical Complex have told Al Jazeera that at least six Palestinians were killed and others wounded by Israeli fire in al-Akhawah, near Rafah in southern Gaza.
It comes despite the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) saying on Friday that it had closed all its centres until further notice following incidents of deadly violence near the sites in which Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians seeking aid.
The Gaza government's media office has published a list of the casualty numbers near aid distribution points since the GHF began operating.
The list, which has not been updated to reflect Saturday's casualties, states that 109 people have been killed since the aid sites opened:
- May 27: 3 killed, 46 wounded, 7 missing in Rafah
- May 28: 10 killed, 62 wounded in Rafah
- June 1: 35 killed, 200 wounded in Rafah; 1 killed and 32 wounded, 2 missing at the Gaza Valley Bridge
- June 2: 26 killed, 92 wounded in Rafah
- June 3: 27 killed, 90 wounded in Rafah
- June 6: 8 killed, 61 wounded in Rafah.
Since dawn, at least 34 people have been killed by Israeli attacks, including seven people who were killed in an Israeli raid on a house sheltering displaced people west of Gaza city.
Israel has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians in its brutal bombardment of Gaza since October 7 2023, primarily women and children.
The assault has destroyed large parts of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population of roughly two million Palestinians.
After blocking all food and aid from entering Gaza for more than two months, Israel began allowing a trickle of supplies to enter for the UN several weeks ago.
But the UN says it has been unable to distribute much of the aid because of Israeli military restrictions on movements and because roads that the military designates for its trucks to use are unsafe and vulnerable to looters.
