Israeli fire kills at least 18 in Gaza, U.S. envoy visits hostage family protest

Key points

• Dei Hospitals in Gaza reported the killing of more than a dozen people, eight of them food-seekers, by Israeli fire on Saturday (August 2025) as Palestinians endured severe risks in their search for food amid airdrops and restrictions on overland aid delivery.
• Near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site, Yahia Youssef, who had come to seek aid on Saturday (August 2025) morning, described a panicked scene now grimly familiar.
• After helping carry out three people wounded by gunshots, he said he looked around and saw many others lying on the ground bleeding.
• “It's the same daily episode,” Mr. Youssef said.
• In response to questions about several eyewitness accounts of violence at the northernmost of the Israeli-backed American contractor's four sites, the GHF media office said “nothing (happened) at or near our sites”.