Palestinians in Gaza say they were fired on once again as they headed to one of the aid distribution centres run by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on Monday.Witnesses said that for the first time they were fired on by Palestinian gunmen near the GHF site in the Tal al-Sultan area of Rafah, in the south. They also said Israeli troops fired on them.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said six people were killed and 99 injured from areas designated for aid collection.The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports. The GHF said the Tal al-Sultan site did not open on Monday and that there were no incidents at two other sites which did hand out aid.It comes days after Israel’s prime minister acknowledged that it was arming Palestinian clans in Gaza who were opposed to Hamas.Almost every day since the GHF began distributing aid on 26 May, there have been deadly incidents near one or other of the four centres it has so far opened.Dozens of Palestinians have been killed while approaching one site in the Tal al-Sultan area of Rafah on a route that runs through an Israeli military zone.In the previous incidents, witnesses have said that Israeli forces opened fire at crowds. The Israeli military has denied that troops fired at civilians within the site, but it has said that troops fired at “suspects” who ignored warning shots and approached them.In Monday’s incident, people at the scene said that Palestinian gunmen shot at them, as well as Israeli forces.They said the gunmen appeared to be allied with the Israeli forces, as they were operating near them and moved back into an Israeli military zone.One witness told BBC Arabic’s Middle East daily programme that he saw a group of youn …
