Death toll in Israeli attack on aid distribution reaches 19, local health ministry says

At least 19 people were killed in the Israeli attack on an aid distribution point earlier Saturday, according to the latest death toll released by the local health ministry in Gaza. 

"They were waiting for aid trucks at the Kuwait roundabout" when they were hit by "Israeli occupation army tank fire and shells", the ministry said in a statement. 

The deaths are the latest in a series of attacks on Palestinian civilians attempting to receive food and other desperately needed relief supplies.