Israel kills 24 Gazans and wounds 300 while waiting for aid to arrive

At least 24 people were killed and more than 300 injured by Israeli army machine gun fire early this morning near the Zikim military post, northwest of the city of Beit Lahia, as they awaited the arrival of aid trucks, Al Shifa Hospital reported.

Local sources indicated that only seven trucks entered the northern border through Zikim yesterday, and all of them were confiscated.

Residents of the north, where there are no distribution points for the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), rely on the few UN trucks that obtain Israeli permission, after a lengthy bureaucratic process, to enter the Strip.

Meanwhile, rescue teams also reported that this Saturday they recovered the bodies of three more Gazans killed in the last two days by Israeli gunfire while searching for food.

"What is happening in Gaza is unjustifiable . The scale of human suffering and the level of violation of human dignity have surpassed all legal and moral limits," lamented Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in a statement.

Spoljaric warned that 350 ICRC staff members in Gaza are also facing the same harsh conditions in obtaining food and drinking water.

Israeli bombs have continued to pound the Palestinian enclave so far this Saturday , causing at least 15 more deaths and several injuries, according to medical sources.