Israeli soldiers set fire to a crowd of Palestinians on Saturday, demanding food from the distribution hub. US-, Israeli-backed Group According to Sakshi and hospital officials, 32 people died in Southern Gaza.
Two incidents took place near the hub run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Health officials said that in other violence, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza city.
Ghf Started operations in late May With support from America and Israel. The two governments are demanding to change the traditional United Nations -led aid distribution system in Gaza, stating that Hamas terrorists stop supply. The United Nations denied the charge.
While GHF says that it has distributed millions of food to hungry Palestinians, local health officials and witnesses say that there have been hundreds of people. Israeli killed by army fire As they try to reach the delivery hub.
The army, which is not on the sites, but secures them from a distance, says it only fire warns if the mob becomes very close to its army.
The GHF, which appoints private armed guards, states that there have been no deadly firing on its sites, although this week, 20 people were killed at one place, most of them were in a stampede. The group accused the Hamas agitator of nervousness, but did not provide any evidence to return the claim.
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In a statement, GHF stated that it had no incident on or on the sites. It said that the reported Israeli was far away from shooting sites and hours ago. “We have repeatedly warned the support seekers not to travel overnight and morning on their sites,” said this.
The Israeli army stated that it had fired “warning shots” near Rafah, when a group of suspects approached the soldiers and ignored the call to keep their distance. It said that it was investigating the reports of casualties, but it was noted that the incident took place overnight when the distribution site was closed.
‘Indiscriminate fire’
Most of Saturday’s deaths occurred when the Palestinians were about two miles from the GHF aid distribution center in the Teena region, east of Khan Younis city.
An eyewitness, Mahmood Mokimar said that he was walking with the people of the people – most of the young men – the food hub. Before opening the fire towards the marching people, the soldiers fired warning shots as advanced to the crowd.
“It was a massacre … The occupation indiscriminately set us on fire,” he said. He said that he managed to escape but at least three motionless bodies fell on the ground, and many others fled.
Another witness Akram Akar said that the soldiers fired the machine guns on tanks and drones. He said that the shooting took place between 5 am and 6 pm
“They surrounded us and started firing directly at us,” he said. He said that he saw many casualties lying on the ground.
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55-year-old woman Sana al-Jaberi said she saw many dead and injured as she ran away from the region.
“We shouted: ‘Food, food,’ but they didn’t talk to us. He just set fire,” he said.
Palestinian-Jordan’s Monger Fesiefes said his 19-year-old son Hishm was among those killed in the Tina region.
To help the Jordan’s government vacate them from Palestinian Enclave, the father of six said, “He failed to bring food from America, helps us to feed us.”
Nasir Hospital at Khan Younis said that he found 25 bodies, as well as dozens of injured.
The hospital stated that seven other people, including a woman, were killed in Shakosha area, hundreds of meters (yards) in the north of another GHF hub in Rafah, the southern city of Gaza. The toll was also confirmed by the Ministry of Health.
The head of the nursing department of Nasar, Dr. Mohammad Sekar said that he found 70 injured people. He told the Associated Press that most of the casualties were shot in their heads and chest, and some were already kept in overwhelmed intensive care unit.
“The situation is difficult and tragic,” he said, saying that this feature lacks the necessary medical supply to treat the daily flow of casualties.
Meanwhile, Avad, head of the ambulance and emergency service of the Ministry of Health at Northern Gaza, confirmed two deaths in the city of Gaza. He said that in an air strike, a tent was killed in a camp to the displaced families in the courtyard of the Ministry of Development. There was no more information on the goal of the strike.
The Israeli army said it had hit some 90 targets in Gaza in the last day and killed terrorists and targeted the “terrorist infrastructure” in North Gaza and Gaza city.
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Human crisis
According to food safety experts, more than 2 million Palestine of Gaza are living through a terrible human crisis, and the region is on the edge of the famine.
Distribution on GHF sites has often been chaotic. According to witnesses and videos released by GHF, food boxes are piled on the ground on the ground inside the centers and once opened, the crowd is charged to grab whatever can happen.
In a recent video from an American contractor working with GHF, the contractors are seen using tear gas and stun grenades to force the contractors to be crowded behind the metal fence or forced them to spread them. Gunshot can also be heard.
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