American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press.

The Israeli military killed seven people near a humanitarian aid distribution centre in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to sources in the Hamas-run health authority. The victims had reportedly been waiting for aid near a site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in the central part of the strip.