‘A new massacre on Gaza's hungry': Palestinian health ministry

Israel has committed a new attack on the "hungry mouths" of Gaza, said the spokesman for Gaza’s health ministry.

Hundreds of Palestinians had been queueing for food in war-ravaged northern Gaza when Israeli forces attacked, killing at least 20 and wounding 150 others.

“The Israeli occupation committed a new massacre against thousands of hungry mouths who were waiting for aid,” Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement on Telegram.

The number of dead is likely to rise, given the number of seriously wounded.

Many of the victims are being treated at al-Shifa Hospital, which Israel has bombed in the past and which has stopped functioning as a normal hospital, with few doctors working, Qudra said.