Overview

• At least 34 to 40 Palestinians were killed and more than 200 wounded near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution sites on June 16.
• Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that since late May, when the new system began, about 300 people have died and over 2,600 have been injured at aid sites.
• The United Nations and major relief agencies have rejected the U.S.-backed distribution model as unsafe, inadequate and in breach of humanitarian principles.
• Israel acknowledges that troops have fired warning shots near distribution points but says militants provoked the violence.
• The aid crisis has left Gaza facing acute malnutrition and has drawn accusations that hunger is being used as a weapon during a 20-month conflict that has killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians.