Dozens of Palestinians been killed while trying to access aid in Gaza, hospital officials say. Two hospitals said 25 people were killed overnight, near a convoy transporting flour and a food distribution site run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the area of the Netzarim corridor, an Israeli military zone in central Gaza.

The Gaza Health Ministry says that the Palestinian death toll from the 20-month Israel-Hamas war has climbed past 55,000.

Israeli gunfire killed at least 17 Palestinians and wounded dozens as thousands of displaced people approached anaid distribution site run by a U.S.-backed humanitarian group in central Gaza on Tuesday,