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798 people killed while receiving aid in Gaza, says UN human rights office

GENEVA, July 11 (Reuters) - The UN human rights office said on Friday that it had recorded at least 798 killings both at aid points run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and near humanitarian convoys run by other relief groups, including the UN
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Tori-SU-Gazagenocide Palestinians walk in a street in Jabalia along the rubble of destroyed buildings as the displaced head to the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, on 21 January 2025, the third day of a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas. (Photo: Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)

By Olivia Le Poidevin

The GHF uses private U.S. security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely bypassing a U.N.-led system that Israel says had let militants divert aid.

The United Nations has called the plan "inherently unsafe" and a violation of humanitarian impartiality rules.

"Up until the seventh of July, we've recorded now 798 killings, including 615 in the vicinity of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, and 183 presumably on the route of aid convoys," OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva.

The GHF began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May and has repeatedly denied that incidents had occurred at its sites.

(Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin, Editing by Miranda Murray)

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