KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip — 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 early Monday, Palestinians said. Gaza’s Health Ministry and local hospitals said 14 people were killed.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that Hamas had threatened its workers, a claim the militant group denied, as the United Nations warned that Gazans were far from getting the food they need.

Israel’s blockade of Gaza may have been partially lifted – and a new US-backed plan to deliver aid has begun. But there are multiple indications that the plight of Gazans is rapidly worsening.

Drip-fed aid, a starving population and the most air strikes since October 7: Gaza’s growing crisis in numbers - IN FOCUS: Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots has seen an escalation in attacks in Gaza.