Israeli strike kills two near aid distribution centre in southern Gaza

An Israeli air strike on civilians near the aid distribution point in the west of Rafah, in southern Gaza, killed at least two people, according to health officials at the Nasser Medical Complex.

Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal and witnesses said the civilians had been heading to a site run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Witness Abdallah Nour al-Din told AFP that "people started gathering in the Al-Alam area of Rafah" in the early morning.

"After about an hour and a half, hundreds moved toward the site and the army opened fire," he said.

At a charity kitchen in Gaza City, displaced Palestinian Umm Ghassan said she had been unable to collect aid from a GHF site "because there were so many people, and there was a lot of shooting."

"I was afraid to go in, but there were people who risked their lives for their children and families," she said.