Israeli attacks kill 94 people in Gaza in last 24 hours

Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed 94 people in the last 24 hours and injured 252 others, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has reported. 

The health ministry also said earlier that 21 Palestinian aid seekers died from a stampede and suffocation due to tear gas being fired at crowds gathered outside a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) food distribution site in southern Gaza's Khan Younis. 

One medic said lots of people had been crammed into a small space and had been crushed.

The GHF said that the stampede was precipitated by "elements within the crowd - armed and affiliated with Hamas", a claim which Hamas rejected as "false and misleading".

Witnesses told Reuters that guards at the site sprayed pepper gas at them after they had locked the gates to the centre, trapping them between the gates and the outer wire-fence.

On Tuesday, the UN rights office in Geneva said it had recorded at least 875 killings within the past six weeks in the vicinity of aid sites and food convoys in Gaza - the majority of them close to GHF distribution points.

Also on Wednesday, an Israeli strike on a camp sheltering displaced people in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza killed nine people.

The latest casualties have pushed the overall toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza to 58,573 people, with another 139,607 wounded.