Officials say 73 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens its evacuation orders

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Officials say 73 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens its evacuation orders

By WAFAA SHURAFA, FATMA KHALED, MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY
Updated 10:19 AM EDT, July 20, 2025

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — At least 73 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the territory’s Health Ministry said, in one of the deadliest days yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war.

There was new alarm as Israel’s military issued evacuation orders for areas of central Gaza, one of the few areas where it has rarely operated with ground troops and where many international organizations attempting to distribute aid are located.

The largest toll was in northern Gaza, where at least 67 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid entering through the Zikim crossing with Israel, according to the Health Ministry and local hospitals. The U.N. World Food Program said 25 trucks with aid had entered for “starving communities” when it encountered massive crowds that came under gunfire. It called violence against aid-seekers “completely unacceptable.”

Some witnesses said Israel’s military shot at the crowd.

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[moniss]

1. The IDF always seems to claim they only fired

"warning" shots. Apparently that is defined by the IDF as killing a bunch of people to "warn" others.