LONDON — The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said in a statement on Wednesday that at least 20 people were killed in an incident at one of its aid distribution sites in the southern Gaza Strip.
The GHF said in a post to X that 19 of the dead were “trampled” and another was stabbed, in what it described as a “chaotic and dangerous surge.” The GHF blamed “agitators in the crowd” for the stampede.
The Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza said that 15 of those killed “died of suffocation as a result of tear gas fired at the starving people and the subsequent stampede.” The ministry said at least 21 people were killed in the incident.
People carry a body as they mourn those killed in an incident on Wednesday while seeking aid in Khan Younis, at Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 16, 2025.
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As of July 13, at least 875 people have been killed in recent weeks while trying to get food in Gaza, according to Thameen Al-Kheetan, a spokesperson for the U.N.’s OHCHR.
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