The Israel Defence Forces and the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on Sunday denied a Hamas allegation that Israeli forces attacked a food line at an aid distribution site in Gaza.
Thirty people were killed and over 100 were wounded according to the Qatari-based Al Jazeera Network, which reported that Israeli forces struck Gazans on their way to receive food at the GHF centre in the al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah.
Earlier, a nearby hospital run by the Red Cross reported that 21 Palestinians had been killed and 175 injured, with eyewitnesses claiming the IDF opened fire from tanks about a kilometre from the aid distribution site.
The reports were picked up by outlets like Bloomberg News, which reported medics and witnesses saying that Palestinians headed to the Israeli-guarded buffer zones around the Rafah and Netzarim distribution stations were fired on by tanks or drones.