Gaza’s civil defence agency said 16 people were killed in Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territory, most of them while waiting for aid, AFP reports.

The first responders agency’s teams transported the bodies of 16 people killed by Israeli fire in various part of the Palestinian territory, spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

At least three people were killed and many injured when Israeli forces “targeted a gathering of hundreds of citizens near the aid distribution point” in central Gaza on Sunday morning, Bassal said.

In the coastal territory’s north, Bassal said civil defence teams transported seven people killed on their way to get aid distributed from trucks in the area northwest of Gaza City.

In south Gaza, two people were killed and 50 were injured “when (Israeli) forces opened fire on citizens near an aid distribution point,” Bassal said.

Bassal said that the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to worsen, “with no food, no water and no medicine, while thousands of children, the elderly and the sick go to sleep hungry”.