Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food aid, medics say

(Corrects misspelled word in June 17 story to ‘tallies’ in third last paragraph)

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food.

Video shared on social media showed around a dozen mangled bodies lying in a street in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli…