2 American aid workers injured at food distribution site in Gaza; Palestinians die amid airstrikes and attempts to find food

Two American humanitarian workers in the United States and Israel Gaza Humanitarian Foundation were injured in southern Gaza during an attack on a food distribution site on Saturday. The organization said that the attack was led by Hamas but did not provide additional evidence.

The GHF said that the attackers had launched grenades on a distribution site in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. The Foundation then published a photo of the fragments of the explosive apparatus and said, without providing evidence, that it had been exploded by Hamas activists. He said that injuries did not put their lives in danger and that the two men had received medical care.

Meanwhile, Israeli air strikes killed 14 people in the Gaza Strip, the hospital officials in Gaza told the Associated Press on Saturday.

The strikes have reached tents in the Muwasi region at the southern end of the Mediterranean coast of Gaza, killing seven people, including a Palestinian doctor and three children, according to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

Four others were killed in the city of Bani Suheila in southern Gaza, and three people were killed in three different strikes from Khan Younis. The Israeli army has not made immediate comments on the strikes.

The latest blood efforts occur while the ceasefire efforts led by the United States aimed at interrupting a war of almost 21 months seem to gain momentum.

Hamas gave a “positive” response Friday evening, to the last American proposal for a 60 -day truce, but said that other talks were necessary for the implementation.

Hamas asked guarantees that the initial truce would lead to a total end to the war and the withdrawal of the Israeli troops from Gaza. Hamas also said they wanted the aid to be delivered exclusively by the UN and its partners, and that the GHF is closed.

President Trump was put pressure on an agreement And is expected to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House next week to discuss an agreement. Netanyahu previously excluded the end of the war until all the hostages were released and the military and the governing capacities of Hamas were permanently destroyed.

“We can no longer bear it,” said Saleh Abu Odeh to CBS on Saturday morning. He said that he had been moved countless times in the territory torn by the war. “We pray that there will be a ceasefire, whatever the requests. I agree and let the people breathe.”

Palestinians die in search of food

In addition to those who are killed in the air strikes, 10 Palestinians were killed as they Food sought In the besieged enclave, officials of the Gaza hospital told the Associated Press. Eight were killed near a GHF aid distribution site in the southern city of Rafah, the hospital said. A Palestinian was also killed near another GHF point in Rafah. It was not clear how far Palestinians were sites.

The GHF denied that murders have occurred near their sites. Previously, the organization said that no one had been shot on its sites, which are guarded by private entrepreneurs But can only be accessible by going beyond the Israeli military positions to hundreds of meters. CBS News previously reported that an entrepreneur said his colleague had shot the crowd on a help site.

The army had no immediate comments, but said that it shoots warning fire as a measure of control of the crowd and that it targets people when its troops are threatened.

A Palestinian was also killed while waiting in rescue trucks in eastern Khan Younis, officials from Nasser Hospital said. The United Nations and other international organizations provide their own assistance supplies. It was not clear to which organization the aid trucks to which the Palestinians were waiting for, but the incident did not seem to be linked to GHF operations.

Crowds of Palestinians often await trucks and unload or plunder their content before reaching their destinations. These trucks must go through areas under Israeli military control. The Israeli army did not immediately comment on the incident.

GHF – An initiative supported by the United States and the United States intended to bypass the UN – distributes the aid of four sites surrounded by Israeli troops, three of which are in the far south of Gaza.

The UN and other humanitarian groups have rejected the GHF system, saying that it allows Israel to use food as a weapon, violates humanitarian principles and it is not effective.

Israel says that Hamas has siphoned help using the UN – a complaint that the UN denies. Hamas has urged Palestinians not to cooperate with the GHF.

The GHF, recorded in Delaware, began to distribute food in May to the Palestinians, who say that Israeli troops open fire almost every day towards the crowd on roads heading towards the distribution points, through Israeli military areas. Several hundred people have been killed and hundreds of others injured, according to the Ministry of Health Gaza managed by Hamas and witnesses.

The war in Gaza was launched after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 250 others hostage. Israel replied with an offensive that killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health managed by Hamas, moved almost all 2 million people from Gaza and left a lot on the brink of famine.

The ministry is led by health professionals employed by the government of Hamas in Gaza. He does not make the difference between civilians and combatants, but his figures are considered by the UN and other international organizations such as the most reliable statistics on losses of war.

Debora Patta contributed to this report.