A festival spokesperson said in an emailed statement that a 35-year-old Canadian woman fell ill at the event Friday and was hospitalized. But organizers were told Saturday morning she had died.
Most of Saturday's deaths occurred as Palestinians massed in the Teina area, about three kilometres from an aid distribution centre backed by the U.S. and Israel, near the southern city of Khan Younis.
An explosion at a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department training facility on Friday killed three deputies, the sheriff said.
Top church leaders visited Gaza on Friday after its only Catholic church was struck by an Israeli shell the day before, an attack that killed three people and injured 10. The wounded included a priest who had developed a close friendship with the late Pope Francis.
