{"id":9463,"date":"2025-06-04T03:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2025-06-04T03:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:05:32","slug":"27-killed-near-gaza-aid-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=9463","title":{"rendered":"27 killed near Gaza aid point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Twenty-seven people were killed in southern Gaza on Tuesday as Israeli troops opened fire near a US-backed aid centre, with the military saying the incident was under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>United Nations chief Antonio Guterres decried the deaths of Palestinians seeking food aid as &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; and the UN rights chief condemned attacks on civilians as &#8220;a war crime&#8221;, after a similar shooting near the same site on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Gaza&#8217;s civil defence agency said that &#8220;27 people were killed and more than 90 injured in the massacre targeting civilians who were waiting for American aid in the Al-Alam area of Rafah&#8221;, in the territory&#8217;s south.<\/p>\n<p>Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal earlier told AFP the deaths occurred &#8220;when Israeli forces opened fire with tanks and drones&#8221;, while Israel said troops fired towards &#8220;suspects&#8221; who had ignored warning shots.<\/p>\n<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross gave the same death toll but without mentioning the Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation said Gazans face an &#8220;unprecedented scale and frequency of recent mass casualty incidents&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The latest shooting occurred about a kilometre (just over half a mile) from a centre run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which Israel has worked with to implement a new aid distribution mechanism. AFP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-seven people were killed in southern Gaza on Tuesday as Israeli troops opened fire near a US-backed aid centre, with the military saying the incident was under investigation. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres decried the deaths of Palestinians seeking food aid as &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; and the UN rights chief condemned attacks on civilians as &#8220;a war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}