LIVE UPDATES: Israel kills 27 Palestinians at aid site in southern Gaza’s Rafah

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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 3 June 2025:

• At least 27 Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured in an Israeli attack on people waiting for aid in southern Gaza’s Rafah governorate at an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is backed by Israel and the US, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an independent investigation into the mass shooting of Gaza’s aid seekers that have been reported every day since May 27, when the GHF started its operations.
• The Israeli military says three of its soldiers have been killed in northern Gaza’s Jabalia area, in what appeared to be the deadliest attack on them since they ended a ceasefire with Hamas in March.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 54,381 Palestinians and wounded 124,054, according to the Health Ministry.
• An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Israel ‘lured’ and killed 102 aid seekers in 8 days: Gaza media office

Gaza’s Government Media Office accuses Israel of “a horrific, intentionally repeated crime”, saying it has been luring starving Palestinians to its US-backed aid distribution centres and then opening fire on them.

It said today’s death toll – 27 – brought the number of aid seekers killed at aid sites in the Rafah governorate and the so-called Netzarim Corridor since the Gaza Aid Foundation started operating in the enclave on May 27 to 102, with 490 others injured.

“The so-called ‘aid’ distribution centres, which are located in exposed and dangerous red zones under the control of the occupation army, have turned into mass bloodbaths, luring starving civilians to them as a result of the crippling famine and the tightening siege,” the statement published on Telegram said.

“They are then deliberately and coldly shot, in a scene that epitomises the malice of the project and exposes its true objectives,” it added.

The Media Office called on “the United Nations, its Security Council and human rights organisations to assume their moral and legal responsibilities, take immediate action, and exert pressure using all available means to open official crossings without interference or conditions from the occupation”.

Witnesses detail desperation, chaos at Rafah aid site

The same situation unfolded as in the past few days. Palestinians were moving towards this distribution point [in Rafah] to collect food.

We heard from witnesses that there was chaos. There’s no process. There’s no system.

You just need to run first to be able to get the food. The Israeli forces just opened fire randomly, shooting Palestinians … using quadcopters and live ammunition.

The Health Ministry and doctors are saying that most of those wounded have been hit in their chest and head.

Palestinians are very desperate to get food, and that is why they’re going there every single day. Now, what is the food that is being distributed?

According to people we spoke to, they said that there is a very limited amount of food – flour, oil, lentils and other canned food.

Footage shows arrival of casualties from Rafah aid point to hospital

The video verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency has documented the arrival of injured people at the Red Cross Hospital from an aid distribution point in Gaza’s Rafah governorate.

Israeli forces arrest at least 9 Palestinians in occupied West Bank

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) has released a statement on the wide-scale arrests of Palestinians by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Here is summary of what the organisation said:

• One person was arrested from Yabad town in the Jenin governorate.
• Four people were arrested in Dura city of the Hebron governorate.
• Two people were arrested from the Umm ash-Sharayet neighbourhood in the Ramallah governorate’s el-Bireh city.
• Two people were arrested from the town of Beit Sahour in the Bethlehem governorate.

‘Forgotten by the world’: Disability deepens sisters’ struggle in Gaza

Inside a stifling tent in Shati, one of Gaza’s overcrowded displacement camps, 30-year-old Raneem Abu al-Eish cares for her sisters, Aseel, 51, and Afaf, 33.

They sit close to Raneem, laughing at times and at others growing agitated when the cries of children playing outside get too loud.

Aseel and Afaf suffer from celiac disease and intellectual disabilities that impair their speech, understanding, and behaviour – conditions that have only deepened under the strain of war and displacement.

They struggle to express themselves, often overwhelmed by their environment, Raneem explains. While she doesn’t know the medical term for their condition, the symptoms at times mirror Tourette syndrome.

Read more here.

Nasser Hospital patients ‘face certain death’ due to Israeli evacuation orders: Ministry

We have reported earlier that Israel on Monday ordered Palestinians in several areas of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis to immediately flee, warning that it “will operate with great force”.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel “is deliberately undermining and stifling the health system through evacuations of areas housing hospitals and healthcare centres”.

“The recent evacuations in Khan Yunis Governorate pose a direct threat to putting the Nasser Medical Complex out of service,” the ministry said on Telegram.

It said the Nasser Medical Complex is the only hospital in the southern Gaza Strip that offers specialised services that are threatened with disruption.

“Dozens of patients and wounded are in intensive care, operating rooms, and emergency rooms, as well as children in nursery wards, facing certain death if the complex is out of service,” the ministry added.

US-backed aid distribution system in Gaza ‘inhumane’: Charity chief

Bassam Zaqout, director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, has described the situation at the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund’s (GHF) aid distribution sites as a “death trap”.

“Honestly, it’s an inhumane act,” he told Al Jazeera from Gaza City. “It’s a war crime … shooting towards civilians directly while they are waiting for aid.”

Zaqout added that there was no clear eligibility criteria as to who should be receiving aid on any particular day.

Rafah aid point death toll rises to 27

We have reported earlier that 24 people were killed by Israeli forces at an aid distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah governorate.

Now, the enclave’s Health Ministry says the number of dead has risen to 27, with more than 90 others injured.

Palestinian Mujahideen Movement condemns Rafah ‘aid massacres’

The group says the deadly attacks on aid seekers in Gaza are “an American-Zionist crime that reflects a systematic policy of persecuting our people and practising the most heinous forms of oppression and injustice against them”.

Its statement on Telegram strongly condemned “the international complicity and silence regarding the continued policy of starvation and suffocating siege, and the ongoing crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the latest of which was the heinous Zionist massacre of starving and besieged people as they were heading to receive aid in the al-Mawasi area of Rafah”.

Palestinian Mujahideen Movement condemns Rafah ‘aid massacres’

The group says the deadly attacks on aid seekers in Gaza are “an American-Zionist crime that reflects a systematic policy of persecuting our people and practising the most heinous forms of oppression and injustice against them”.

Its statement on Telegram strongly condemned “the international complicity and silence regarding the continued policy of starvation and suffocating siege, and the ongoing crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the latest of which was the heinous Zionist massacre of starving and besieged people as they were heading to receive aid in the al-Mawasi area of Rafah”.

Displaced Palestinians wounded in Israeli attack on southern Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that an Israeli attack on a building housing displaced people in Khan Younis has led to injuries.

A day earlier, the Israeli army ordered Palestinians in several areas of southern Khan Younis to flee immediately, warning that it “will operate with great force”.

Israeli military says 3 soldiers killed in northern Gaza

The soldiers, all in their early 20s, were killed in northern Gaza on Monday evening, the army says, without providing details.

It is the deadliest attack on Israeli forces since it broke the nearly two-month-long ceasefire in March.

Israeli military admits firing near Gaza aid site

The Israeli military says its troops have fired shots at Palestinians about 500 metres from the aid distribution site of US-backed GHF in Gaza.

In a statement in English on Telegram, the army said, “… troops identified several suspects moving toward them, deviating from the designated access routes. The troops carried out warning fire, and after the suspects failed to retreat, additional shots were directed near a few individual suspects who advanced toward the troops.”

The statement said the army was aware of reports regarding casualties, and the details of the incident were being looked into.

Israel kills dozens on eighth day of violence at aid site in Rafah: Ministry

At least 24 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire as they waited for aid distribution in the al-Alam area of Rafah city, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Many more were injured, with one person in critical condition, the ministry added.

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