Blood mixed with flour as the dead were wheeled away in carts after gunmen opened fire at hundreds of Palestinians looking for food at an aid point in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli Defence Forces, who control the Zikim Crossing distribution point, admitted firing shots when their soldiers felt ‘threatened’.

Hours later, more than 48 were dead with hundreds more injured at the main entry point for humanitarian aid to northern Gaza, according to a local hospital. Continues…