At least nine people were killed in an attack on an aid distribution vehicle, according to Palestinian media.
At least nine people were killed and many others injured in an Israeli attack on an aid distribution truck in Deir el-Balah, Wafa news agency reports.
A witness who did not give his name told Al Jazeera that he was heading to a water well on Sunday when the area was “rained by missiles, flying shrapnel and body parts in the air.”
“This truck was transporting humanitarian aid, with civilian volunteers on board. They brought food to the displaced in Gaza. Deir el-Balah is alleged to be a safe zone,” he said.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
'Horrible massacre'
Later on Sunday, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said there were “dozens” of victims in a “horrible massacre” of aid seekers near the Kuwaiti roundabout on Salah al-Din Street in south of Gaza City.
Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah, said: “It seems like the Israeli army is targeting people right now who are desperately waiting for food, anything, to survive.”
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
Children die from malnutrition and dehydration
The attacks came as Gaza's Health Ministry said at least 15 children died in recent days from malnutrition and dehydration at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City.
The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, has warned that many more children in Gaza will die of dehydration and malnutrition unless there is direct intervention to ensure aid.
“Now, the child deaths we feared are here and are likely to increase rapidly unless the war ends and obstacles to humanitarian aid are immediately resolved,” Adele Khodr, UNICEF regional director for MENA, wrote in a statement.
According to Palestinian authorities, more than 30,400 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israel's war on Gaza since October 7.
Israel launched its devastating bombardment and ground invasion of the besieged territory after Hamas, which rules Gaza, led an attack on Israel, killing at least 1,139 people, according to an Al Jazeera count based on official Israeli figures, and taking another 250. like captives. .
Hamas in Cairo for talks
Negotiations on a possible truce between Israel and Hamas resumed on Sunday, after a US official indicated that Israel had backed a framework for a temporary ceasefire and the exchange of Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas officials arrived in Cairo on Sunday, but Israeli media reported that Israel did not send a delegation to the talks, mediated by envoys from Qatar, Egypt and the United States.
A senior Hamas official told Al Jazeera that his delegation was in Cairo “to meet with the Egyptian and Qatari brothers and present the vision of the movement. Whether or not the occupation delegation arrives in Cairo is of no concern to us,” he stated.
A source briefed on the talks told Reuters news agency a day earlier that Israel could stay away from Cairo unless Hamas first presented the list of captives.
A Palestinian source told the agency that Hamas had so far rejected that demand.
A US official had earlier said that Israel had accepted the framework for a truce deal to be discussed in Cairo.
“There is a framework agreement. The Israelis have more or less accepted it,” a senior US official in President Joe Biden's administration said on Saturday.
