Vehicle overturned after Israeli forces directed it down an ‘unsafe road’, local officials tell WAFA news agency.
Published On 6 Aug 2025
At least 31 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, medical sources told Al Jazeera, and 20 others were killed when a truck carrying humanitarian aid overturned onto a crowd of people.
Among those who died in Israeli attacks on Wednesday were 10 aid seekers killed in various areas of the territory, despite the Israeli army’s announcement of “tactical pauses” in fighting to allow aid distribution.
Al-Awda Hospital reported that five people – including a woman and two children – were killed, and others wounded, in an Israeli raid on a house north of the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Four more people died in an Israeli raid on two homes in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Earlier on Wednesday, at least 20 Palestinians were killed when a truck delivering aid supplies overturned, according to the Government Media Office.
The incident occurred as large numbers of Palestinians gathered in central Gaza in search of food and basic supplies amid an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis.
Local officials quoted by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the vehicle overturned after Israeli forces directed it down what they described as an “unsafe road”.
Gaza Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said dozens of people were wounded while hundreds of civilians were waiting for aid, the AFP news agency reported.
“Despite the recent limited allowance of a few aid trucks, the occupation deliberately obstructs the safe passage and distribution of this aid,” the Government Media Office said in a statement.
“It forces drivers to navigate routes overcrowded with starving civilians who have been waiting for weeks for the most basic necessities. This often results in desperate crowds swarming the trucks and forcibly seizing their contents.”
The incident comes as humanitarian organisations warn of famine and disease spreading across the enclave, while deaths from starvation an