Twenty folks had been killed and dozens had been injured in a single day when a truck carrying items and assist into the Gaza Strip overturned in Deir al-Balah, within the central a part of the enclave, in response to media and Hamas authorities.
It was not initially clear whether or not the truck was delivering provides to retailers or a humanitarian group.
The deaths can be the most recent surrounding assist deliveries to embattled Gaza, which have turn out to be a central concern amid the conflict there that was triggered by the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Humanitarian teams proceed to sound the alarm over widespread hunger in Gaza and rising experiences of deaths as a result of malnutrition.
In keeping with experiences by the Qatari outlet Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, the help truck overturned after a crowd gathered across the car, prompting it to divert onto an unsafe route, ensuing within the accident.
Gaza’s Hamas-controlled civil protection company additionally reported on the incident.
“Twenty folks had been killed and dozens injured round midnight final evening in a truck carrying assist overturned… whereas tons of of civilians had been ready for assist,” the company’s spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal, advised AFP.
The incident happened close to the Nuseirat refugee camp, because the truck was driving on an unsafe highway that Israel had beforehand bombed, added Bassal, who Israel accuses of being a Hamas terrorist.
Illustrative: Palestinians battle to get meals and humanitarian assist from the again of a truck because it strikes alongside the Morag hall close to Rafah, within the southern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025. (Mariam Dagga/AP)
The Israeli army mentioned it was wanting into the experiences.
Hamas accused Israel of forcing truck drivers to take harmful routes to achieve assist distribution facilities, and to “deliberately engineer… hunger and chaos.”
Israel “forces drivers to navigate routes overcrowded with ravenous civilians who’ve been ready for weeks for probably the most primary requirements,” Hamas’s media workplace mentioned in a press release.
“This typically leads to determined crowds swarming the vehicles,” it added.
Jordan assist blocked
In the meantime, Jordan mentioned Israelis attacked a Gaza-bound assist convoy within the second such incident in days, and accused Israel of failing to behave firmly to forestall assaults.
The convoy, 30 vehicles of humanitarian assist, was delayed in its arrival in a violation of signed agreements, authorities spokesman Mohammad al-Momani advised Reuters.
“This requires a critical Israeli intervention and no leniency in coping with those that hinder these convoys,” Momani mentioned.
A video posted to social media purportedly of the motion confirmed dozens of protesters sitting within the highway to forestall the vehicles from passing.
Israeli settlers block the highway, intentionally obstructing assist vehicles carrying important provides to ravenous households in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/ESEAqKO6gc
— Quds Information Community (@QudsNen) August 5, 2025
Earlier this week, Momani had mentioned that a number of assist vehicles had been compelled to show again to Jordan after being accosted by activists in Israel.
Proper-wing activists advocate for no assist to be permitted into Gaza till terror teams there launch all of the hostages that had been kidnapped through the Hamas-led October 7 assault. The assault, by which some 5,600 terrorists invaded the nation, additionally killed 1,200 folks, principally civilians.
Studies of the truck overturning got here the day after Israel mentioned it will, for the primary time in practically a yr, enable the entry of products into the Gaza Strip through the private sector, an effort aimed toward rising the circulate of important meals and hygiene gadgets that had been beforehand solely delivered by assist organizations.
Photographs of ravenous Palestinians, together with kids, have alarmed the world in latest weeks, ramping up worldwide strain on Israel to allow extra assist into the coastal enclave the place conflict has been raging for the reason that devastating Hamas-led assault on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Israel says that Hamas steals provides from deliveries by the UN and worldwide assist teams. The US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF), established to offer assist through another that may maintain items out of Hamas’s fingers, has been affected by near-daily capturing incidents which have seen tons of killed as they attempt to attain the GHF distribution facilities.
The United Nations says greater than 1,300 folks have been killed making an attempt to acquire assist provides within the enclave for the reason that GHF started working in Could, most of them shot by Israeli forces working close to GHF websites.
The IDF has acknowledged firing warning pictures at crowds that get too near its troopers, however known as the UN tallies exaggerated, although it hasn’t offered alternate numbers.
IDF orders evacuation in Gaza Metropolis, Khan Younis
The IDF on Wednesday morning issued an evacuation warning for Palestinians residing within the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza Metropolis.
“As you will have been warned, the IDF continues to deepen its operations westward,” mentioned the army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee in a publish on X, attaching a map of the realm that’s to be evacuated.
#عاجل ‼️ تحذير إلى كل من لم يُخلِ المناطق المحددة بعد أو عاد إلى البلوكات 613, 624, 625, 628, 629, 630, 631, 641, 695 – في حي الزيتون،
⭕️كما تم تحذيركم، يواصل جيش الدفاع تعميق عملياته غربًا.
⭕️من أجل سلامتكم، أخلوا فورًا جنوبًا نحو المواصي pic.twitter.com/P2JuRLqSyh— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) August 6, 2025
The world from which persons are instructed to evacuate is already underneath prior evacuation orders. Palestinians in Zeitoun had been instructed to move for the Mawasi space on the coast of the south of Gaza, the place Israel has established a “safer” zone.
A second evacuation warning was issued for Palestinians residing in a small zone in western Khan Younis within the Strip’s south.
“The IDF is constant its floor maneuver and is utilizing heavy power in your space to develop the scope of the combating,” says Adraee, including that the evacuated zone is not going to be included within the areas that see a each day “humanitarian pause” for the supply of assist.
The Hamas-run Gaza well being ministry says greater than 60,000 folks within the Strip have been killed or are presumed useless within the combating up to now, although the toll can’t be verified and doesn’t differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and one other 1,600 terrorists inside Israel through the October 7 onslaught.
Israel has mentioned it seeks to attenuate civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas makes use of Gaza’s civilians as human shields, combating from civilian areas together with properties, hospitals, faculties, and mosques.
