The deaths of at least 20 people at an aid distribution point in Gaza is the latest grim event in a war that has already officially claimed more than 58,000 lives and wounded at least 139,000.

The claims by the Israeli authorities and the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that the deaths — 19 crushed and at least one stabbed —
were down to armed “agitators” linked to Hamas seem hollow. 

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