This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Friday the 4th of July, these are our main stories.

A former security contractor who worked for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distributing aid

says he saw colleagues firing on Palestinians who posed no threat.

Trump's big beautiful bill passes narrowly, ready for the president's approval by his July the fourth deadline.

Also in this podcast, in Sudan warnings from a medical charity that civilians are facing starvation, sexual violence and executions in a city

under siege by militia. And the object from outer space spotted by a telescope in Chile.

The more sunlight it reflects, the easier it is to spot. So we know where the big stuff is.

We know where those dinosaur killers or potential human killers are out there in the solar system.

We start in Gaza, where there are reports that Israeli forces have killed a large number of civilians.

Many of the 69 victims, according to the Gaza's civil defense agency agency were attempting to get humanitarian aid.

Since May, the UN says more than 400 Palestinians have been reportedly killed

since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, backed by the US and Israel, took over aid distribution

from the UN. The chair of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Reverend Johnny Moore,

an American evangelical pastor, said that the GHF investigated reports of killings near its aid sites.

He spoke to the BBC World Service last week. In most circumstances, we haven't been able to

identify anything, anything happening.

Certainly there are people dying every day in the Gaza Strip. It is an active war zone.

We are not doing this work in the middle of a ceasefire. We're doing it in the middle of a hot war.

Some of that is unintentional. I'm sure some of it is is certainly intentional, at least on the

Hamas side. And the IDF has said, you know,

overtly a few times that they were responsible for some casualties. However, I think people need

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