A major investigation reveals that Israeli forces have killed nearly 3,000 Palestinians while they were trying to obtain food, water, or other basic aid in the besieged Gaza Strip.
A year-long investigation by The New Humanitarian outlet released on Tuesday found that 2,957 people were killed between January 2024 and September 9, 2025.
Nearly 20,000 others were wounded while trying to obtain aid during the same period.
The investigation also examined around 200 assaults between January 2024 and July 2025, excluding those near aid-distribution points linked to the controversial Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
It concluded that about 1,200 Palestinians were killed and nearly 4,700 were injured in those incidents alone.
Researchers later added deaths at GHF-linked sites, as well as figures from the UN’s humanitarian affairs office (OCHA), to The New Humanitarian's database.
These additions dramatically raised the toll of Palestinians killed while attempting to obtain aid amid Israel's two-year campaign of death and destruction in the besieged Palestinian territory.
The killings of aid seekers surged after May, when GHF distribution centers were described as "death traps" because of daily massacres carried out there by Israeli forces and US-backed mercenaries.
Before May, the investigation recorded 633 deaths among Palestinians seeking aid; over the following three months, the toll jumped by nearly 2,300.
Deaths at aid distribution points now account for 4.6 percent of all Palestinians killed in Israel's aggression on Gaza since October 2023.
In August, rights groups, citing testimonies and satellite imagery as evidence, said Israel was committing war crimes at GHF-linked sites.
Since its creation, leading NGOs and organizations have accused GHF of weaponizing aid, violating international law, and facilitating the killing of Palestinians who depend on humanitarian assistance.
In July, more than 170 aid groups demanded the dismantling of the GHF distribution system and called for aid deliveries to be restored under UN coordination.
Israeli forces killed and wounded Palestinians as they queued at soup kitchens and bakeries, collected food packages from humanitarian warehouses, fetched water and airdrops, and waited for convoys.
Despite mounting international condemnation, Israel presses ahead with its genocidal war on Gaza.
The Israeli regime’s new ground offensive in Gaza City has forced hundreds of thousands to flee to the already overcrowded south.
The regime’s relentless bombardments across Gaza have killed at least 90 people since Tuesday morning.
Nearly 65,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, most of them women and children.
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