By Abeer Salman, Mohammad al Sawalhi, Eyad Kourdi and Tim Lister, CNN

(CNN) — Dozens of Palestinians were shot dead near an aid distribution site in Gaza on Sunday, according to Palestinian officials, with Israel’s military dismissing reports its troops had fired at or near the site as “false.”

The incident is the latest in which Palestinians have been killed while attempting to receive aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial US-backed mechanism to distribute aid to the embattled and hungry enclave after a months-long Israeli blockade.

The GHF has been criticized by the United Nations and others, who warn it risks further displacing Palestinians and endangering civilians and last week. Previous distributions of aid at its sites have been marred by chaos and viol

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