At least 73 people were killed when Israeli forces opened fire on people queuing up to receive aid and relief supplies in Gaza. This is not the first incident in which the Israeli army opened fire on an aid or relief distribution center in the Gaza Strip.

By collecting information from the Ministry of Health and local hospitals, Associated Press has estimated the number of deaths in this incident in northern Gaza.

Al Jazeera quoted the Ministry of Health as saying that the death toll has reached 84, of which 73 people were waiting in line to receive aid, and that more than 200 were injured in the incident. The Israeli army accused Hamas fighters of spreading chaos in the crowd and tried to confirm the situation of shooting. The United Nations said that

about 800 people have died since the last week of May in trying to get humanitarian aid in Gaza . Raveena Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the United Nations Human Rights Office, said at a press conference in Geneva, "In the period from May 27 to July 7, we recorded the deaths of 615 people near the centers of the Gaza Humanitarian Aid Foundation." Since Israel launched an attack on Palestine, especially women and children have become victims of starvation. 

The United Nations has been saying that the food shortage and malnutrition situation in the Gaza area is becoming very dire. There are frequent occurrences of overcrowding in the places where aid is distributed and the Israeli army firing at them.