Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli fire killed 25 people on Saturday in the Palestinian territory devastated by more than 21 months of war.
Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP the dead included nine people killed in three separate air strikes in Gaza City.
Eleven people were killed in four separate strikes near the southern city of Khan Yunis, while two were killed in a drone strike in Nuseirat refugee camp, he added.
Bassal said three people were killed by Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid in three separate incidents in northern, central and southern Gaza.
One of the three was killed 鈥榓fter Israeli forces opened fire on people waiting for humanitarian aid鈥� northwest of Gaza City, the agency said.
Witnesses told AFP that several thousand people had gathered in the area.
The Israeli military told AFP that its troops fired 鈥榳arning shots to distance the crowd鈥� after identifying an 鈥榠mmediate threat鈥�.
The civil defence agency said another man was killed by a drone strike near Khan Yunis, while one was killed by artillery fire in the Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza.
The Israeli military said it was continuing its operations in Gaza, adding that it killed members of a 鈥榯errorist cell鈥� which it accused of planting an explosive device.
It said the air force had 鈥榮truck over 100 terror targets鈥� across Gaza over the previous 24 hours.
Bassal said civil defence teams also recovered the bodies of 12 people following Israeli bombardment north of Rafah the previous night.
The recovery operation was conducted in coordination with the UN humanitarian office, he said, adding that the bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.
Meanwhile, Hamas officials expressed surprise on Saturday at US president Donald Trump鈥檚 accusation that the group 鈥榙idn鈥檛 really want鈥� a ceasefire and hostage release deal for Gaza.
Trump made the allegation of Friday a day after Israel and the United States quit indirect negotiations with Hamas in Qatar that had lasted nearly three weeks.
鈥楾rump鈥檚 remarks are particularly surprising, especially as they come at a time when progress had been made on some of the negotiation files,鈥� Hamas official Taher al-Nunu told AFP.
鈥楽o far, we have not been informed of any issues regarding the files under discussion in the indirect ceasefire negotiations鈥�, he added
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said that planned airdrops of aid into the Gaza Strip would not solve severe food shortages caused by months of restrictions on the entry of supplies.
鈥楢irdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians,鈥� UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X, calling the wave of hunger affecting Gaza 鈥榤anmade鈥�.
