At least 41 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday, as the death toll at US-Israeli aid distribution centers in Gaza rose to 516.

THE Israeli military says seven Israeli soldiers were killed in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. A Palestinian attacker is reported to have attached a bomb to their armoured vehicle while Palestinians health officials in the battered enclave reported that 79 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the strip today.

Gazans caught up in violence seeking food, and the U.N. agency tasked with helping them, say a U.S. and Israeli-backed aid effort is "costing more lives than it saves."