# Israeli attacks in Gaza kill aid convoy guards as hunger and violence spread
*Event date: 2024-12-12*
Israeli strikes across Gaza killed dozens of people, including 15 who were part of a force protecting humanitarian aid convoys near Rafah and Khan Younis, according to the supplied Al Jazeera report.
The report said two strikes killed eight people near Rafah and seven near Khan Younis. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that those killed were guarding aid trucks, while the Israeli military said Hamas members were trying to hijack the convoy.
The latest attacks came hours after the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the besieged territory. The timing gave the strikes added political weight, since they followed a public diplomatic push for a halt to the fighting.
The same report said children were among seven people killed in a strike on a residential building in Gaza City’s al-Jalaa Street, and that 15 people were killed in a house west of Nuseirat camp where displaced people were taking shelter. Another segment of the report said the death of an orthopaedic doctor in Jabalia pushed the toll of healthcare workers killed since the war began to 1,057.
The report also described a worsening governance and security breakdown around aid. Hamas said Israeli strikes had killed at least 700 police tasked with securing aid trucks since the war began, and accused Israel of helping looters and chaos. The UN, in turn, has said Israeli restrictions and the collapse of law and order have made it extremely difficult to operate in Gaza.
The humanitarian consequences were not limited to aid convoys. The report said experts were warning of famine, especially in the north, where Israeli forces had launched a renewed ground offensive two months earlier. It also said Israel’s bombardment had displaced nearly all of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents and killed more than 44,800 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to health officials.
There were also signs of diplomacy elsewhere in the report: US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Israel’s prime minister appeared ready to negotiate a hostage release and ceasefire deal, while Pope Francis received Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and discussed the humanitarian situation in Gaza with him.
But the core picture in the supplied evidence was immediate and brutal. Aid protection forces were hit, civilians were killed in other strikes, and the territory’s fragile humanitarian system continued to break under bombardment, insecurity and hunger.
