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51 Palestinians Seeking Aid Massacred at Zikim Crossing in Gaza

HeadlineJul 31, 2025

Officials in Gaza say Israel has killed at least 111 Palestinians over the past 24 hours, including 91 people seeking food and aid. Over 820 Palestinians have been injured. In the deadliest incident on Wednesday, at least 51 were killed by Israeli forces as they headed toward aid trucks at the Zikim crossing.

On Wednesday, Palestinians gathered at Al-Shifa Hospital to mourn the deaths of family and friends killed on Tuesday while seeking aid.

Mourner: “You can ask anyone. For three or four days, you couldn’t find any food. People were either dying of hunger — even in intensive care units, you find them starving with nothing to eat — or we would die in the places of death, the places of killing and destruction, where we go to get something to eat but end up bringing back our children to bury them.”

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