Anarchy and bullets after the month of Gaza Assistance Scheme

Following the launch of a controversial US- and Israeli-backed aid system in Gaza, in four weeks, repeated incidents of Palestinians killings and injuries have been repeated which are seeking help.

According to Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry, more than 500 people were killed and 4,000 were injured to get help in the previous month.

To get a clear understanding of how last month has surfaced, BBC Verifify has analyzed dozens of videos of Gaza that provide an insight into the ground appearing on the ground. The footage features chaos, nervousness, live bullets and a daily cycle of dead or injured Palestinians.

While the video shows a composite picture of danger and chaos, they certainly do not show who is responsible for firing in each event. However, in many cases, eyewitnesses and medics have described the Israeli forces that are opening fire on the crowd near the support sites.

In last month’s statements, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said several times that they fired “warning shots” on individuals he described as “suspicious” or said it was a threat.

The IDF has verified the BBC that Hamas “does everything in its power to prevent the success of food distribution in Gaza, tries to disrupt help, and directly damages the citizens of the Gaza strip”.

On 18 May, Israel announced that it was partially reduced the assistance of its 11-week blockade in Gaza, which aims to pressurize Hamas to leave the hostages.

The IDF built four assistance distribution sites – three in the far south -west of Gaza and one in the Central Gaza by the Israeli Security Area is known as Netzerim Corridor – which began operating on 26 May.

In IDF – These sites are known as SDS 1, 2, 3 and 4 – Gaza is operated by security contractors working for the Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in which the Israeli army acquires their and the circumference from the routes. On Thursday, the US State Department announced $ 30m (£ 22m; € 26m) in funding for GHF – first known direct contribution to the group.

From the beginning, the United Nations vested the plan, saying that it would aid “military”, bypassing the existing distribution network and forcing Ghazan to travel long through a dangerous area to get food.

Within the days of the launch, dozens of Palestinians were killed in separate events on 1 and 3 June, which led to international condemnation. Since then there are daily reports of the killings of people traveling to collect assistance.

The IDF stated that “its force operates systematic learning procedures aimed at improving the operational response in the region and reducing potential friction between population and IDF forces”.

The Israeli government spokesman David Mainner called the report of those killed by people who were “another untruth” assistance. “Hundreds of people are not dying.”

The GHF denied that it had any incident or ambush at any distribution site or near it.

On Tuesday, Red Cross stated that his Field Hospital in Rafa had to activate its large -scale casualty procedures 20 times from May 27, in which most patients were suffering from gunshot wounds and said they were on the way to a support site.

Along with the United Nations and its World Food Program, other support providers have continued to try to distribute assistance in Gaza, but they say they are dependent on Israeli officials to facilitate their mission.

The United Nations office of the High Commissioner for human rights stated that the killing of Palestinians trying to receive assistance was “potential war crime”. International human rights lawyer Sarah Elizabeth Dill verified the BBC that if there was a deliberate targeting of citizens, it could cause serious violation of international law.

“Citizen violates the main rules against the targeting and using starvation against them during the relief access, probably growing for war crimes,” he said.

Three videos, the first of which were published on 9 June, shown to hundreds of people, some hold of empty flour sacks, scrambled on the rubble mound and hide in the trench. Many bursting of automatic pills can be heard.

On that day, the Hamas-Interested Health Ministry said that six people were killed that morning, while assistance was demanded and more than 99 were injured. The next day, it reported deaths related to 36 assistance and more than 208 injuries.

It is not possible to verify that any of these casualties were the result of the bullets that could be heard in the footage.

We were able to confirm that a video filmed with a video filmed about 4 km (2.5 mi) in the north-west of SDS4, on the way to the site in Central Gaza.

A former FBI advisor, who now runs a bake audio forensic, has an audio analysis of Gunfire from Steve Bake, that one of the guns has been on rates to suit FN minimi machine gun and M4 Assault Rifle. The second gun, Mr. Beck said, was fired at a rate which was “compatible” with the sound of AK -47. We cannot establish whose weapons were firing, but FN Minimis and M4 are commonly used by IDF, while AK -47 is commonly used by Hamas and other groups in Gaza.

The next day in the footage published, on 10 June, and nearby, the greater crowd was seen as a gun sound in nervousness, followed by an explosion, the distance was heard in the distance. The injured and bloody people, including children, were then being taken away.

The GHF has a “safe passage” map on its sites and transmits the time of opening through WhatsApp and social media.

Each route has a “start point” and a “stop point” with Palestinians, warning that they should not cross the latter to the instructions. The GHF has said that these corridors are safe by IDF and warned people to cross these stop points until it can be told.

But SDS4 did not plan for a safe route for people coming from north.

Non-GHF related assistance sites have also been murdered.

From June 17, the verified footage was shown on a road to at least 21 bodies and several injured people, including several vehicles, including a heavy damaged flatbed truck.

The witnesses told the BBC that the IDF drone and a tank opened fire on the crowd as they were waiting to collect assistance.

An IDF statement admitted that it identified the “gathering” of the people adjacent to a support distribution truck, which was trapped in the area of ​​Khan Younis, and in the proximity to IDF soldiers operating in the area “.

It said: “IDF is aware of the reports about many injured persons after the crowd’s approach.” This regretted “no one harmed any kind of people” and said that the details of the incident were being reviewed.

A spokesman for Gaza’s Hamas-Run Civil Defense Agency said that at least 50 people were killed at the scene.

The video depicts several dead around the scotch mark on the ground, in which a person has been blown up his feet.

Mark Canian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies referred to the clear impact of the crater, but told us that the limit of damage was the result of “many direct fire”.

Another video posted on 16 June, which we have verified, shows that the dead bodies drawn on a cart with a horse with Al-Rashid Street in North Gaza are shown, which is the main coastal road and is often used by aid convoy.

The caption with the video claims that these Palestinians were killed in waiting for assistance.

The next day, several photos and videos we verified by us were posted on social media, located nearby, which was taken by several men on a wooden pallet with the same road.

The GHF claimed that many of the alleged incidents were associated with convoys and distribution sites for other groups including the United Nations. It said that those support supply was “being robbed by criminals and bad actors”.

A GHF spokesperson said that it has been “pleased” with the first month of its operation, with 46 million meals distributed to two million ghazans, but the target was to increase its capacity.

The IDF has stated that in other changes it is installing fences and signals and opening additional routes.

“We have expressed concern [with the IDF] The GHF spokesperson said about maintaining a safe route for support seekers, but some people have tried to cut or travel dangerous during the restricted time.

“Finally the solution is more aid, which will create more certainty and less urgency among the population.”

Paul Brown, Emma Pengali, Lamis Ultalebi, Richard Irwin-Brown, Benedict Garman, Alex Mara, Kumar Malhotra, Sebastian Vanderameresh and Additional Reporting and Verification by Thomas Spencer.