At least 30 Palestinians were killed and more than 70 others injured early Wednesday when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians waiting for food near the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza. The victims, many of them already weakened by months of hunger, had gathered in desperation in hopes of receiving basic humanitarian aid.

Local reports confirmed that several individuals remain missing following the attack, with the wounded rushed to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah and Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, both overwhelmed and lacking critical medical supplies.

Just a day earlier, another massacre unfolded in Khan Younis, where 51 civilians were shot dead and 200 injured while waiting near Al-Tahliyah Roundabout for U.S.-labelled aid. Gaza’s Ministry of Health described the conditions at Nasser Medical Complex as catastrophic, with overcrowded emergency rooms and patients lying untreated in corridors.

Since late May, hundreds of starving Palestinians have been killed at aid distribution points under what has become a deadly pattern of targeting those seeking food. The so-called humanitarian corridors, part of a U.S.-Israeli initiative, have been widely condemned for turning aid into a weapon of control, displacement, and humiliation.

Medical staff are operating in impossible conditions, without enough medicine, oxygen, or equipment. With 338 people killed and nearly 3,000 injured at aid centres since May 27, Palestinians say the message is painfully clear: even hunger is met with bullets.