Gaza correspondent
RootsA doctor and eyewitnesses told the BBC that at least 18 Palestinians had died, when an Israeli drone strike targeted the Hamas police unit, which a doctor and eyewitnesses told the BBC.
Eyewitnesses said the Israeli drone firing on the members of the Hamas police, wearing civil clothes and facing masks, who was facing sellers, accused them of selling value lover and selling goods looted from aid trucks.
The Hamas-operated Interior Ministry condemned the strike, accusing Israel of committing “a new crime against a police unit to maintain public orders”.
The Israeli army stated that it had killed “many armed terrorists” belonging to Hamas’s internal security forces.
An eyewitness reported that the police broke the BBC clashes on Thursday after facing the sellers, the unit commander shouted: “Either sell at a reasonable price or we will seize the goods.”
Some vendors then “took out the handgun and a man did Kalashnikov”, the eyewitness said.
The Israeli drone then fired two missiles, said by local residents.
The latter video footage suggests that the bodies are scattered on the ground and panicked shopkeepers shout, as the ambulance runs to participate in those injured.
A doctor at Al-AQSA Hospital in Dir Al-Bala said that the BBC 18 bodies were brought to the morgue there. It was not immediately clear how many of the killed people were police officers.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that before the strike, steps were taken to reduce the risk of damaging citizens.
RootsThe incident came as citizens in Gaza, continued to struggle to use food, in South and Central Gaza and the Israeli-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) at the distribution sites and near the surrounding daily firing, and limited items available in markets selling for highly bloated prices.
GHF – accused of violating human principles by international support groups – received $ 30M in funding from the US on Thursday, which has supported Israel’s efforts to become the largest support organization in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accused Hamas “once again to control humanitarian aid … and northern Gaza of stealing citizens, as they gave the army two days to prepare a” action plan “to stop it.
The video footage was filmed on Wednesday as a film of a truck convoy, taking assistance in North Gaza, after entering Zikim Gate, at the top with armed and masked men.
Israeli’s remote National Security Minister Itmar Ben Gwir shared the video on social media, stating that Hamas was “taking control of food and goods” and was calling Netanyahu to stop the entry of assistance in Gaza.
Hamas has refused to give theft or profit with help, and the Gaza’s High Committee for Tribal Affairs – A non -Hamas Affiliated Committee set up during the war – also rejected Israel’s “false claims” in a statement on Thursday.
“It is purely through tribal efforts by receiving assistance,” it said.
Thousands of assistance parcels were distributed in a warehouse in Gaza city on Thursday.
Hamas’s political officials were present, but he said that his role was “supervisory”, in which NGOs were in charge of distributing some 6,000 food parcels.
“This morning, when I woke up to the message, I was asked to get help, all my children, young and old started singing and started dancing with happiness. I pray to God that this blessing will stay with us,” a woman said while waiting for food there.
In addition, on Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced its first medical shipment in Gaza since March 2.
Medical supply, 2,000 units of blood, and nine trucks carrying 1,500 units of plasma “despite high -risk conditions” were transported without any looting, Who said the major Tedros Adnom Gabreyasus.
He said that the amount was “only one drop in the ocean”.
He said that blood and plasma was transported to Nasir Medical Complex for further distribution to hospitals, “he was facing significant decrease amid the increasing influx of injuries, associated with events at many food distribution sites”, he said.
A spokesman for the Hamas-Run Civil Defense said that before the Thursday strike in the market, at least 14 Palestinians were killed and dozens were injured in the Israeli military attacks in Gaza.
Rescue teams evacuated 14 bodies, including three Palestinians, waiting for human assistance near the Paidi Gaza Bridge near the Netzerim Corridor in Madhya Gaza.
A medical source at the nearby Al-Awadh Hospital confirmed that three Palestinians were killed and several others injured by Israeli bullets near the plaintiff Gaza bridge.
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli drone set fire to a large crowd of citizens at the time of the attack.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the BBC that overnight, a gathering was identified in an area adjacent to soldiers in the Netzerim Corridor, and the soldiers fired warning shots to stop the suspects from contacting them.
The IDF said it was aware of the reports about the number of persons injured in the area, but said that a preliminary investigation suggested that the number is not aligning with the information of the IDF. However, the details of the incident are under additional review, the IDF said.
In other places, five people were killed in an Israeli air strike at a school that sheltered families in Western Gaza city.
In the Al-Mavasi region of Khan Younis, to the south of the strip, five members of the Abu Arabian family died when an Israeli airstrike killed a tent-shelter displaced individuals. Another Palestinian was also killed in a strike that hit a tent in Al-Mavasi.
Other people were injured in the attack.
The IDF said it was looking at these reports, but requested specific coordinates and time. In general, the IDF stated that it was “operational to eliminate Hamas military capabilities”.
The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, killing around 1,200 people and 251 others were taken hostage.
According to the Hamas-Interested Health Ministry of the region, at least 56,259 people have been killed in Gaza since then.
