Gaza City, May 31 (EFE).– Israeli soldiers opened fire and killed two Palestinians and wounded dozens more on Saturday in Rafah, southern Gaza, as they were heading toward a US- and Israeli-backed aid distribution point.
The victims were identified as Fathi Wael Al-Nahhal and Ahmad Mohamed Mahmoud Mattar, according to EFE sources at the Gazan Ministry of Health, who have access to the centralized database of fatalities arriving at hospitals.
Moreover, at least 52 others were killed across Gaza on Friday, according to medical sources.
The fatalities followed numerous Israeli strikes on homes in Jabalia (north) and Khan Yunis (south), where 13 Palestinians were killed in the bombing of tents.
The limited distribution of food through militarized aid centers, run by US security contractors, has, for the past five days, forced thousands of malnourished and exhausted Gazans to risk crossing dangerous military zones in hopes of securing food.
The little-known company behind the system, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), confirmed to EFE that, as with the previous day, only the Tel al-Sultan (Rafah) distribution complex was operational. This again left over a million people in northern Gaza without access to food aid.
“The SDS1 center in Tel al-Sultan was open today and delivered the largest amount of aid to date, with 30 trucks unloaded,” GHF said in an email.
On Friday, the same Rafah complex distributed a limited number of food boxes for just under an hour, according to local sources.
The aid center in the Netzarim corridor remains closed. GHF stated it hopes to open “additional sites in Gaza, including the northern region, in the coming weeks.” EFE aa-pms-sk
