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Hello and welcome to NewsHour Live from the BBC World Service in London.
I'm Rebecca Kesby.
Total carnage is how one foreign medic described the scene to the BBC as the hospital he works in in southern Gaza was overwhelmed with casualties in the early hours of this morning after another mass shooting incident near an aid distribution centre,
this one near Rafah.
The Hamas-run health ministry says at least 27 people have been killed and 90 injured.
It's the third day in a row that Palestinians have been killed
while trying to access food aid.
The UN agency that usually coordinates the distribution...
of aid in Gaza has been banned from doing so by the Israeli government.
The US-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is the body now doing it.
And badly, if you take the view of the UN's human rights chief,
Volker Turk, who described the new aid delivery system to us as heartbreaking,
unacceptable and dehumanising.
We've tried to get an interview with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
They've declined so far.
Well, foreign journalists, as you know,