Israel kills attacks food collection centre, kills 112

More than 100 Palestinians were killed and many more injured when Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid in south of Gaza City, a Health Ministry spokesman tells Anadolu news agency.

Hundreds of Palestinians were waiting to receive aid near Dowar al-Nablusi, south of Gaza City when they came under Israeli fire, eyewitnesses said.

The horrific attack on starving Palestinians in north Gaza has left at least 112 dead and more than 700 wounded, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The ministry added that more than 750 wounded, with the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemning what it said was a cold-blooded “massacre”.

The ministry said the attack was part of Israel’s ongoing “genocidal war”.

It called on the international community to “urgently intervene” to forge a ceasefire as “the only way to protect civilians”.

People had congregated at al-Rashid Street, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way.

Al Jazeera verified footage showing the bodies of dozens of killed and wounded Palestinians being carried onto trucks as no ambulances could reach the area.

“We went to get flour. The Israeli army shot at us. There are many martyrs on the ground and until this moment we are withdrawing them. There is no first aid,” said one witness.

Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul said that after opening fire, Israeli tanks advanced and ran over many of the dead and injured bodies.

“It is a massacre, on top of the starvation threatening citizens in Gaza,” he said.

The dead and wounded had been taken to four medical centres: al-Shifa, Kamal Adwan, Ahli, and the Jordanian hospitals.

Ambulances could not reach the area as the roads had been “totally destroyed”, said al-Ghoul.

Meanwhile, Gaza’s government media office said 13,230 children have been killed in the besieged coastal enclave, including seven who died of starvation.

The death toll also includes 8,860 women, 340 medical staff, 132 journalists, and 47 civil defence staff.

While 30,139 bodies have been registered at hospitals, the official death toll does not include the about 7,000 reported missing, the office said in its latest update.