CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli gunfire killed at least 17 Palestinians and wounded dozens of others as thousands of displaced people approached an aid distribution site of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in central Gaza on Tuesday, local health authorities said.

The Israeli army on Friday said four of its soldiers had been killed in the area of Khan Younis after explosives detonated in a compound they were operating in, causing parts of it to collapse. The

Palestinians say Israeli forces and allied local gunmen fired toward a crowd heading to an Israeli- and U.S.-supported food distribution center in the Gaza Strip