At least 22 Palestinians were killed Sunday in Israeli attacks on Gaza aid seekers and shelters, days after the US envoy’s visit to an American-run center.

Israeli occupation forces carried out new deadly assaults targeting Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid near Rafah and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, Al-Jazeera reported, citing medical sources.

At least 22 Palestinians have been killed since dawn, including 16 people waiting for food assistance. According to the Emergency and Ambulance Service, nine civilians were shot dead by Israeli forces near aid distribution points north of Rafah earlier in the day.

This latest massacre comes just two days after US envoy Steve Witkoff visited a center operated by the so-called American ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’.

Around the same time, Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp reported the killing of four Palestinians and the wounding of others near the aid center along the Netzarim axis in central Gaza.

The new Israeli-US calories-based “humanitarian aid” mechanism, designed to concentrate and mass displace Palestinians in southern Gaza has opened today. One of the “distribution hubs” has been assaulted, the Israeli army attacked, the US mercenaries fled. pic.twitter.com/AiCNTdjylh

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Massacres around food distribution sites have become increasingly frequent, particularly near areas controlled by the US-based aid organization or along routes used by the limited relief convoys allowed into the besieged territory. Hospital sources said 38 aid-seeking Palestinians were killed on Saturday alone.

According to the United Nations and Gaza’s Ministry of Health, over 1,500 Palestinians have been killed and more than 10,000 injured by Israeli fire and the organization’s foreign security contractors since the group assumed control over aid coordination in May.

Red Crescent Targeted

In a separate incident, three civilians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli strike on Faisal School west of Khan Yunis, where displaced families had taken shelter.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces bombed the headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Khan Yunis early Sunday, killing one staff member and injuring three others. 

A source in the organization said the strike directly hit the first floor of the administrative building, igniting a fire. No prior warning was given.

A number of Palestinians were killed and several others were injured by the Israeli occupation forces near the GHF center in the Al Shakoush area during the visit of the US special envoy Steve Witkoff to inspect an aid distribution center in Rafah, southern Gaza.

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Elsewhere in southern Khan Yunis, an Israeli airstrike on a bicycle killed one person, according to Palestinian sources.

Later in the day, three more people were killed and others wounded in an Israeli shelling of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Earlier, a drone strike on Al-Nafaq Street in central Gaza also injured several civilians, including children.

Artillery shelling resumed north of the Nuseirat refugee camp amid intensifying attacks across the strip.

Hospital sources reported that 62 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire on Saturday.

Since the resumption of the assault on Gaza in March, the Ministry of Health says more than 9,200 Palestinians have been killed and around 37,000 wounded.

(PC, AJA)