At least 51 Palestinians were killed and more than 200 wounded in the Gaza Strip while waiting for U.N. and commercial trucks to enter the territory with desperately needed food, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry and a local hospital.

It is potentially the deadliest of the almost daily shootings that have been taking place recently near aid distribution sites.

Eye witnesses describe a 'massacre' after 51 people were killed inside Gaza as they were waiting to get food via a controversial new distribution network system