At least 74 people were killed in Gaza on Monday with an airstrike that left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire that left 23 dead as Palestinians tried to get desperately needed food aid, health officials said.
According to Ali Abu Ateila, who was inside, one airstrike hit Al-Baqa Cafe in Gaza City when it was crowded with women and children.
“Without a warning, all of a sudden, a warplane hit the place, shaking it like an earthquake,” he added.
According to Fares Awad, head of the Health Ministry’s emergency and ambulance service in northern Gaza, a dozen were wounded, many critically, alongside at least 30 people killed.
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Two additional attacks on a Gaza City street killed 15 people, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the injured. According to Al-Aqsa Hospital, six persons were killed in a building strike near Zawaida.
The cafe, one of the few businesses that remained open during the 20-month conflict, was a gathering point for inhabitants looking for internet access and a place to charge their phones. Social media videos showed bloodied and mangled bodies on the ground, as well as injured people being taken away in blankets.
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Meanwhile, witnesses, the hospital, and Gaza’s Health Ministry said Israeli forces killed 11 people who had been seeking food in southern Gaza.
Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis reported it received the remains of persons shot while coming from an aid facility run by the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund. It was part of a lethal pattern that has killed over 500 Palestinians in the last month as a result of the disorganised and controversial assistance distribution operation.
The shooting incident occurred approximately 3 kilometres (1.8 miles) from the GHF location in Khan Younis, when Palestinians returned by the only accessible road. Palestinians are frequently compelled to travel significant distances in order to attend GHF centres and get aid.
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Nasser Hospital said an additional person was killed near a GHF hub in the southern city of Rafah. Another person was killed while waiting to receive aid near the Netzarim corridor, which separates northern and southern Gaza, according to Al-Awda hospital.
Ten other people were killed at a United Nations aid warehouse in northern Gaza, according to the Health Ministry’s ambulance and emergency service.
