Published: June 5, 2026 • 3:36 PM IST · Updated: June 6, 2026 • 6:25 AM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
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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”.