The Israeli military claims it fired warning shots at suspects who approached its troops after they did not heed calls to stop.

Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.

Palestinians were shot dead during a food distribution on Saturday at a center run by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed group in southern Gaza, hospital officials said.

At least 32 Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire near Gaza aid sites, say reports - Witnesses say Israeli troops opened fire on crowds of refugees seeking food from distribution hubs in southern Gaz

Gaza's civil defence agency said on Saturday that Israeli fire killed 26 people and wounded more than 100 near two aid centres, in the latest deaths of Palestinians seeking food.Civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the deaths happened near a site southwest of Khan Yunis and another centre northwest of Rafah,

Gaza's health ministry says at least 36 people were killed by Israeli fire while on their way to an aid distribution site in Gaza.

The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.

Israeli forces killed at least 22 people in attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including two people who died in a strike on a church that late Pope Francis used to speak to regularly, medics and church officials said.