At least 140 people in Gaza killed by Israeli military in last 24 hours

Israeli strikes and gunfire have killed at least 140 people in Gaza in the past 24 hours, Reuters reported on Wednesday. 

Some Palestinians in the strip believe their plight has been forgotten as attention has shifted to Israel's attacks on Iran.

At least 40 people killed in the past day were killed as a result of Israeli gunfire and air strikes, Gaza's health ministry said. The deaths included the killing of Palestinians seeking aid.

According to medics, separate air strikes on homes in the Maghazi refugee camp, the Zeitoun neighbourhood and Gaza City killed at least 21 people, while at least five others were killed in an air strike on an encampment in Khan Younis.

Fourteen more people were killed after Israeli forces fired at them, awaiting aid trucks brought in by the United Nations along the Salahuddin road in central Gaza, medics said.

On Tuesday, Gaza's health ministry said 397 Palestinians trying to get food aid had been killed and more than 3,000 wounded since partial aid deliveries restarted in late May.

"People are being slaughtered in Gaza, day and night, but attention has shifted to the Iran-Israel war. There is little news about Gaza these days," said Adel, a resident of Gaza City.

"Whoever doesn't die from Israeli bombs dies from hunger. People risk their lives every day to get food, and they also get killed and their blood smears the sacks of flour they thought they had won," he told Reuters via a chat app.