Israeli military investigates 'reports of harm to civilians' after hundreds killed near Gaza aid sites share.google

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The IDF said instructions had been issued to forces after "lessons learned".
June 2025
The Israeli military has said it is examining reports of civilians being "harmed" while approaching aid distribution centres in Gaza run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Since GHF operations began in late May, following a three-month Israeli blockade on Gaza, there have been almost daily reports from medics, eyewitnesses and the Hamas-run health ministry of Israeli fire killing people seeking aid at these sites.

The UN says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.

The Israeli military said on Monday instructions had been issued to forces after "lessons learned", but did not specify what these lessons were.
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The BBC put these points to the IDF, which said in response that "reports of incidents of harm" were being "examined" and that "any allegation of a deviation from the law or IDF directives will be thoroughly examined and further action will be taken as necessary."

It said it had no further comment regarding the claims made in Israeli media on Monday.

However it denied any allegations of deliberate fire at civilians, such as those raised in a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Friday.

That report quoted unnamed IDF soldiers who said they were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians near aid distribution sites, to drive them away or disperse them.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly rejected the report, calling the allegations "malicious falsehoods".

The GHF aid system has been condemned by UN agencies, and on Friday UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres branded it "inherently unsafe". It is intended to bypass the UN as the main supplier of aid to Palestinians. Israel and the US said the system would prevent aid being stolen by Hamas, which the group denies doing.