At least 73 Palestinians were killed on Sunday while trying to get food at distribution sites, officials said.

Thirty Palestinians were killed and 60 others were injured by Israeli military action while waiting for aid in the north of the Gaza Strip, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Sunday.

Israeli strikes killed 22 people in Gaza City, including 11 children and three women, and 19 others in Khan Younis. The Israeli military said it has struck more than 120 targets in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, including Hamas military infrastructure of tunnels and weapons storage facilities.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

At least 85 Palestinians were killed in Gaza while trying to reach food, marking the deadliest day for aid-seekers in the ongoing conflict.

Twenty Palestinians were killed Wednesday in the crush of a crowd at a food distribution site run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip, the group said, the first time it has acknowledged deadly violence at its operations.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broke the last cease-fire in the Gaza war on March 18 by launching air strikes that killed more than 400 Palestinians in 36 hours, a reported 183 of them children. He had also imposed a total blockade on March 2,

The World Health Organisation has warned that Gaza is in the midst of a “deadly surge in malnutrition-related deaths.” More than a hundred aid agencies also warned that starvation is spreading and called on Israel to allow aid into the enclave.