Call for aid fund closure

DOZENS of international charities and non-governmental organisations have called for an Israeli and United States-backed aid mechanism for Gaza to be disbanded, following repeated deadly violence against Palestinians heading towards its sites.

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At least seven Palestinians were killed seeking aid in southern and central Gaza between late Monday and early yesterday. Those deaths came after Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza earlier on Monday with air strikes that left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire that killed 23 as Palestinians tried to get desperately needed food aid, witnesses and health officials said.

Yesterday afternoon, Gaza's Health Ministry said the bodies of 116 people killed by Israeli strikes had been taken to hospitals in Gaza over the past 24 hours.