Nuseirat Camp, Gaza - Gaza's civil defense agency said Wednesday that 20 people were killed when an aid truck overturned on a crowd of people seeking aid in the central Gaza Strip.

"Twenty people were killed and dozens injured around midnight last night in a truck carrying aid overturned... while hundreds of civilians were waiting for aid," the agency's spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

The incident took place near the Nuseirat refugee camp, as the truck was driving on an unsafe road that Israel had previously bombed, Bassal added.

The Israeli military told AFP it was looking into the reports.

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Hamas accused Israel of forcing truck drivers to take dangerous routes to reach aid distribution centers, and to "intentionally engineer... starvation and chaos."

Israel "forces drivers to navigate routes overcrowded with starving civilians who have been waiting for weeks for the most basic necessities," Hamas' media office said in a statement.

"This often results in desperate crowds swarming the trucks," it added.

The people of Gaza are currently suffering a famine and mass starvation crisis caused by Israel's ongoing assault and brutal aid blockade.