--- title: Israel Launches New Gaza Offensive description: New ground and air offensive comes after dozens of Palestinians seeking aid were killed in one of the deadliest incidents in months. canonical: https://time.com/7304042/gaza-israel-offensive-aid-idf/ author: Callum Sutherland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-07-21T18:27:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-11T01:26:57.568Z article:section: World og:title: Israel Launches New Gaza Offensive After Dozens Killed Seeking Aid og:description: New ground and air offensive comes after dozens of Palestinians seeking aid were killed in one of the deadliest incidents in months. og:url: https://time.com/7304042/gaza-israel-offensive-aid-idf/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9928cf2201bfb4da/6998c867e1ba00f11e98dbe9/GettyImages-2225399141.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TOPSHOT-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Israel Launches New Gaza Offensive After Dozens Killed Seeking Aid twitter:description: New ground and air offensive comes after dozens of Palestinians seeking aid were killed in one of the deadliest incidents in months. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9928cf2201bfb4da/6998c867e1ba00f11e98dbe9/GettyImages-2225399141.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Israel Launches New Gaza Offensive After Dozens Killed While Seeking Aid > Sponsored content. 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Men ride together in the back of a tricycle cart along Salaheddin road in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 21, 2025.Eyad Baba—AFP via Getty Images by [Callum Sutherland](https://time.com/author/callum-sutherland/) ## Callum Sutherland Reporter Jul 21, 2025 6:27 PM UTC [Israel](https://time.com/tag/israel/) launched a new ground and air offensive in central [Gaza](https://time.com/tag/gaza/) on Monday, pushing into Deir Al Balah with tanks and continued airstrikes following heavy bombardments overnight. The escalation comes amid growing international alarm over mounting civilian casualties after [dozens of Palestinians](https://t.me/MOHMediaGaza/6749) seeking aid were killed Sunday in one of the deadliest incidents since Israel introduced a new humanitarian delivery system in late May. The Israeli army had previously refrained from escalating military operations in Deir Al Balah due to some of the remaining Israeli hostages being help captive in the area, [Israeli sources told Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-sends-tanks-into-gazas-deir-al-balah-hostage-families-concerned-2025-07-21/). The Israeli military [issued evacuation orders](https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1946802114421821706) on Sunday to the city's residents, urging them to move south to the town of Al Mawasi on the coast. “The Defense Army continues to operate with great force to destroy the enemy's capabilities and terrorist infrastructure in the area, as it expands its activities,” Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Avichay Adraee said. ## Families of Israeli hostages criticize offensive Families of the some 50 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza said they were “shocked” by news of the latest offensive. “The people of Israel will not forgive anyone who knowingly endangered the hostages—both the living and the deceased,” [they said in a statement released](https://x.com/bringhomenow/status/1947302056257032368) by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. “No one will be able to claim they didn't know what was at stake.” The forum added that the Israeli government has not provided any clear explanation as to how “the offensive in the Deir Al Balah area does not put the hostages at serious risk.” The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that Sunday’s displacement orders were “yet another devastating blow to the already fragile lifelines keeping people alive across the Gaza Strip.” Initial estimates indicate that between 50,000 and 80,000 people were in the area at the time the order was issued, including some 30,000 people sheltering in 57 displacement sites,” OCHA said in a statement on Sunday night. It said that with the latest displacement order over 87% of Gaza is now under such orders, or under the control of the Israeli military. “\[Sunday\] was a horrible night but we made it through,” resident Oday Basheer, who helps run a kitchen in Deir Al Balah, told TIME. Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) called the situation “extremely critical.” “Shelling is taking place all around our office, and military vehicles are just 400 metres away from our colleagues and their families, who endured a harrowing night after relocating there,” MAP Communications Officer Mai Elawawda said in a statement. **Read more:** [_We Need to Feed the World Again—And Stop a Global Hunger Crisis_](https://time.com/7303886/stop-a-global-hunger-crisis/) ## Dozens killed at aid centers The military escalation comes after [at least 73 Palestinians](https://t.me/MOHMediaGaza/6749) were killed on Sunday while trying to collect aid, according to Gaza health officials. At least 67 were killed waiting for aid from a U.N. convoy in northern Gaza and a further six people killed in Khan Younis in the south. Gaza health officials said that Sunday’s deaths in northern Gaza occurred near the Zikim border crossing point, where a 25-truck World Food Programme (WFP) convoy entered the strip. [The U.N.](https://www.wfp.org/news/gaza-convoy-incident-statement)\-run WFP says that after the convoy entered, it was surrounded by people seeking aid. As the convoy approached, the surrounding crowd came under fire from Israeli tanks, snipers and other gunfire, WFP said. “This terrible incident underscores the increasingly dangerous conditions under which humanitarian operations are forced to be conducted in Gaza,” WFP said, adding that hunger has reached “new levels of desperation,” with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment. TIME has reached out to an IDF spokesperson for comment. The U.N. reported last week that [at least 700 Palestinians](https://time.com/7302681/gaza-israel-ghf-aid-famine-war/) had been killed collecting aid in or around Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid centers, with an additional 200 killed at other distribution hubs in the Gaza strip. Under the new distribution system, GHF is now the sole supplier of new aid entering the strip, with some [United Nations facilities still able](https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165396) to distribute some stockpiled supplies. Many of the previous deadly incidents in Gaza near aid hubs have occured at those run by GHF. It acknowledged such an incident for the first time last week when [at least 20 Palestinians were killed](https://time.com/7302681/gaza-israel-ghf-aid-famine-war/) in Khan Younis. GHF accused [“armed agitators”](https://ghf.org/urgent-statement-from-ghf-on-incident-at-sds3-khan-yunis/) for causing the deadly incident, which the Gaza Health Ministry called false in response. **Read more:** [_Israeli Settler Violence Escalates in the West Bank After Death of Palestinian-American_](https://time.com/7303174/west-bank-israel-settler-violence-gaza-hamas-war/) ## United Kingdom, Canada, and France accuse Israel of “drip feeding” aid The United Kingdom, Canada, and France were among 26 countries to [issue a joint statement](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/joint-statement-on-the-occupied-palestinian-territories) on Monday accusing Israel of the “drip feeding of aid” in Gaza. “The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law,“ the statement read. “We condemn the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food. It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.” The statement reiterated calls for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and the return of all remaining hostages still held captive in the enclave. **Read more:** [_$25 Butter and $40 Eggs: The Search for Food in Gaza_](https://time.com/7286150/gaza-food-prices-starvation/) Israel’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Oren Marmorstein has called the joint statement “disconnected from reality.” “All statements and all claims should be directed at the only party responsible for the lack of a deal for the release of hostages and a ceasefire: Hamas,” [he posted on X](https://x.com/OrenMarmorstein/status/1947321924708663619). Gaza’s Ministry of Health [said on Monday](https://www.facebook.com/MOHGaza1994/posts/1064831969155078?ref=embed%5Fpost) that the death toll in the enclave had reached over 59,000 since the start of the Israel-Hamas War in October 2023\. In the absence of independent monitoring on the ground, the ministry is the primary source for casualty data relied upon by humanitarian groups, journalists, and international bodies. Its figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants. 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