Strikes and shootings kill 82 in Gaza, including many waiting for aid, Palestinians say
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Israel's military did not have an immediate comment on the strikes.
Five people were killed while outside sites associated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the newly created, secretive American organisation backed by Israel to feed the Gaza Strip's population, while 33 others were killed waiting for aid trucks in other locations across the Gaza Strip.
Dozens of people were killed in air strikes that pounded the Strip on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, including 15 people killed in strikes that hit tents in the sprawling Muwasi zone, where many displaced Palestinians are sheltering, and a strike on a school in Gaza City sheltering displaced people.
Palestinians try to extinguish a fire at a building hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Gaza's Health Ministry said the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza has passed 57,000, including 223 missing people who have been declared dead. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its death count but says that more than half of the dead are women and children.
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