At least 47 people were injured, most of them by gunfire from Israeli forces, when large crowds surged toward a newly opened aid distribution center in Gaza, a UN human rights official said Wednesday.

Ajith Sunghay, the head of the UN human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territories, told an Association of Accredited Correspondents at the United Nations (ACANU) media briefing in Geneva that “most of those injured are due to gunshots,” and those injuries were “caused due to shooting by the IDF (Israeli army).”

On Tuesday, starving Gazans stormed a US-backed aid distribution facility, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in the southern city of Rafah, local authorities said.

It said Israeli forces opened fire after thousands of starving Palestinians rushed into the aid distribution facility.