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An Is­raeli- and U.S.-backed group paused food de­liv­ery at its three dis­tri­b­u­tion sites in the Gaza Strip on Wednes­day af­ter health of­fi­cials said dozens of Pales­tini­ans were killed in a se­ries of shoot­ings near the sites this week.

The Gaza Hu­man­i­tar­i­an Foun­da­tion said it was in dis­cus­sions with the Is­raeli mil­i­tary on bet­ter-guid­ing foot traf­fic near the sites and en­hanc­ing mil­i­tary train­ing pro­ce­dures to pro­mote safe­ty.

The move came a day af­ter Is­raeli forces ac­knowl­edged open­ing fire as peo­ple head­ed to­ward a GHF dis­tri­b­u­tion hub in the now most­ly un­in­hab­it­ed south­ern city of Rafah, a mil­i­tary zone off lim­its to in­de­pen­dent me­dia.