"We were shooting, but..."

As reported by the Reuters agency, referring to several media outlets in Gaza, the hospitals received the bodies of the killed as well as the injured.

Earlier, 31 people were reported killed on Sunday morning and three more on Monday while waiting for humanitarian aid in Rafah, according to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, witnesses and aid groups.

The Israeli military and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which runs the aid distribution site, denied there was any gunfire in the area at the time, although a military official said shots were fired to warn individuals about a kilometer away on Sunday and again on Monday.

According to the Red Cross, 179 people were wounded and transported to the field hospital in Rafah on Sunday morning, and another 50 on Monday morning.

"We were shooting, but..."

The Israeli army announced this morning that its troops fired at the suspects who approached them 500 meters from the site where humanitarian aid is distributed in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.

The army says its troops opened fire on suspected Palestinians who approached the forces about 500 meters from the humanitarian aid distribution site in Rafah for the third day in a row, The Times of Israel reported.

The army said that groups of Palestinians were moving along organized routes towards the aid distribution site in Rafah and that soldiers spotted several suspects approaching the forces after they had turned off a pre-approved path, about half a kilometer from the aid distribution site.

It is pointed out that the forces fired warning shots without opening fire after the Palestinians did not disperse.

The military says it is still investigating the incident.