GAZA: Israeli tanks massacred at least 59 Palestinians on Tuesday after they opened fire into a crowd trying to obtain food from aid trucks in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The bloodshed near the World Central Kitchen aid center was the worst in mounting violence at distribution hubs in the enclave as desperate Palestinians struggle for food. Witnesses said tanks had launched a volley of shells at a crowd of thousands who had gathered on the main eastern road through Khan Younis in the hope of obtaining food from aid trucks that use the route.

Thirteen starving Palestinians killed while trying to get food near the Netzarim Corridor and in Rafah's al-Mawasi area.

The toll was the deadliest yet in the near-daily shootings that have taken place as thousands of Palestinians move through Israeli military-controlled areas to reach the food…