Over 90 people were killed when Israeli forces opened fire on crowds of Palestinians trying to collect humanitarian aid on Sunday.
As per Gaza's civil defence agency, 93 were killed and dozens more injured in the latest round of firings.
According to AFP, Eighty were killed as truckloads of aid arrived in the north, while nine others were reported shot near an aid point close to Rafah in the south. Four were killed near another aid site in Khan Yunis, also in the south, agency spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP.
UN aid also confirmed that the Israeli military was targeting aid sites, reported AFP. The UN World Food Programme said its 25-truck convoy carrying food aid "encountered massive crowds of hungry civilians which came under gunfire" near Gaza City, soon after it crossed from Israel and cleared checkpoints.
The UN said earlier this month that nearly 800 aid-seekers had been killed since late May, including on the routes of aid convoys.
However, Israel's military disputed the death count and said soldiers had fired warning shots "to remove an immediate threat posed to them" as thousands gathered near Gaza City. The army says it works to avoid harm to civilians, and that this month it issued new instructions to its troops on the ground "following lessons learned" from a spate of similar incidents.
Papal Call
Israel on Sunday withdrew the residency permit of the head of the OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) office in Israel, Jonathan Whittall, who has repeatedly condemned the humanitarian conditions in Gaza.
The World Food Programme (WFP) condemned violence against civilians seeking aid as "completely unacceptable".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday expressed his regret to Pope Leo XIV after what he described as a "stray" munition killed three people sheltering at the Holy Family Church in Gaza City.
At the end of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, the pope slammed the "barbarity" of the Gaza war and called for peace, days after the Israeli strike on the territory's only Catholic church. The strike was part of the "ongoing military attacks against the civilian population and places of worship in Gaza", he added.
The Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, held mass at the Gaza church on Sunday after travelling to the devastated territory in a rare visit on Friday.
Displaced Population
According to the AFP, most of Gaza's population of more than two million people have been displaced at least once during the war, and there have been repeated evacuation calls across large parts of the coastal enclave.
On Sunday morning, the Israeli military warned residents to evacuate and head south immediately.
"They threw leaflets at us and we don't know where we are going and we don't have shelter or anything," one man told AFP.
The displacement order was "another devastating blow to the already fragile lifelines keeping people alive across the Gaza Strip", the UN OCHA said on Sunday.
According to the aid agency, 87.8 per cent of Gaza is now under displacement orders or within Israeli militarised zones, leaving "2.1 million civilians squeezed into a fragmented 12 per cent of the Strip, where essential services have collapsed."
The army's latest announcement prompted concern from families of hostages held since October 7, 2023, that the Israeli offensive could harm their loved ones.
Delegations from Israel and Hamas have spent the last two weeks in indirect talks on a proposed 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and the release of 10 living hostages. Of the 251 hostages taken during Hamas's 2023 attack, 49 are still being held in Gaza, including 27, the Israeli military says, are dead.
