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Yousef Mokheimer is a patient at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, recovering from a leg wound he says he sustained trying to collect food aid from an Israeli collection point.
He's among a group of witnesses, medics, and local officials who allege Israeli forces opened fire on crowds gathered near aid distribution points run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the controversial US and Israeli-backed organisation that has replaced traditional UN aid channels.
"The army started firing in the air, and the army had seen us. The tank was in front of us and the soldiers were in front of us. We were a group of about 60 people. They saw us. Suddenly, the shooting became random, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. I was injured in my leg. One person came to rescue me, he was injured too. And the army was in front of us."
It's unclear how many people were killed in the incident.
The Gaza health ministry has estimated 11 died, while another ten were killed in a separate incident at a United Nations aid warehouse in northern Gaza.
The Israeli military says it’s reviewing the incidents and maintains that any fire was meant as a warning.
But for many Palestinians, including those displaced by airstrikes, the official line rings hollow.
In Gaza City, an airstrike flattened Al-Baqa Cafe, killing at least 30 people there, including children, while two other strikes on the same day killed 15 more Palestinians.
Elsewhere in Gaza, a UN-run school sheltering displaced families was bombed overnight.
Amani Swalha, a mother who had taken refuge there, has described waking to explosions.
"We were sleeping under God's protection in the middle of the night, at 12 o'clock, there were several missiles in quick successions. I had barely fallen asleep when I found the whole school was being evacuated. 'What's happening, people?' They said they want to bomb something behind the school. We didn't take anything with us. When I left Shujaiya, I didn't take anything then either, and now I didn't take anything. Look at this scene. I took the children and went out to the street, and from the street to people who sheltered us, may God be bless them. And in the morning we came hoping to find something. Does it look like we will be able to find anything? Nothing."
Meanwhile in Israel, settler violence has erupted in the occupied West Bank, with far-right Israeli settlers attacked an Israeli army base.
Ultra-nationalist ministers, including Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir - himself a settler - has called the attack a red line.
The Associated Press news director for Israel and the Palestinian territories, Joe Federman, explains what happened.
"The settlers moved into the base late Sunday. They set the place on fire, they damaged military vehicles, they even clashed with some of the soldiers nearby. Now this was the latest in a series of violent incidents involving extremist settlers in recent days. The settlers are upset by attempts by security forces to halt this violence. They're especially upset, that five settlers were arrested last week following deadly clashes in a nearby Palestinian town where three residents were killed."
A day after US President Donald Trump urged an end to the 20-month war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected at the White House next week for talks on a Gaza ceasefire, Iran, and possible wider regional diplomatic deals.
Calls for peace have also been regularly made at the United Nations Security Council.
The UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Khaled Khiari, has condemned the situation.
"The level of suffering and brutality in Gaza is unbearable. The continued collective punishment of the Palestinian people is unjustifiable. We remain deeply concerned by Israeli military operations in Gaza that render large areas of Gaza uninhabitable. We reject the forced displacement of the Palestinian population from any part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which would constitute a breach of international law obligations. We mourn the United Nations personnel killed in Gaza and strongly condemns the killing of all health and humanitarian personnel and journalists."
He is calling for an independent investigation into the deaths near aid sites and reiterated the UN’s refusal to support any system that violates humanitarian principles.
The Palestinian representative, Majed Bamya, also didn’t hold back.
"We reject the idea that there is a right to slaughter Palestinians. That was our position from day one. This is day 632 and the slaughter is ongoing. There is nothing that can justify a genocide."
Israel's ambassador Danny Danon says that is not what is happening.
He says the UN has politicised the aid process and is spreading disinformation about the G-H-F.
"We don't want to destroy the Palestinian people. We are not fighting the Palestinian people. We are fighting Hamas, the terrorist organization who brought you to where you are today. So, if you claim that you represent the Palestinian people, be responsible, be brave and agree with me today that the future of Gaza will not include Hamas."
Meanwhile, in the UK, the Gaza war has made headlines for a different reason, with British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan leading the crowds at the Glastonbury music festival in chanting “Death to the IDF.”
The backlash has been swift.
Secretary of State Lisa Nandy has told Parliament the BBC needs to explain the live broadcast - and the performers need to explain themselves.
"Let me be clear that this government will not tolerate antisemitism. It has no place in our society. It is a poison and a cancer that must be rooted out, and we will be relentless in our work to do so."
The fallout hasn't stopped there.
Spokesperson Tammy Bruce says the US State Department has revoked the band’s visas ahead of their American tour.
"Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country. Now, we've stated that, that when it comes to how we vet people, if they are going to be coming here to be helpful, to be nice people, to be great tourists, or if they're coming for other reasons. Every sovereign nation has a right to decide who's going to come to this country. So we've been public about that standard, and this was a very public event that violated, as you've seen from the Deputy Secretary's tweet, that very basic standard about the nature of who we want to let into the country."
