Twenty people trying to get food have been killed between a “chaotic and dangerous boom” at a aid distribution center in Southern Gaza, the US and the Israel-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says.
The nineteen was killed and one was stabbed in the “tragic incident” on the GHF site in the Khan Younis area, a statement said that it was believed that the surge was “operated by agitators in the crowd” who was associated with Hamas.
It was not possible to verify the report immediately.
However, Nasir Hospital at Khan Younis earlier said that it had found bodies of 10 people who were killed due to “suffocation” after the closure of the aid site by GHF’s US private security contractors.
Since the operation of GHF in late May, there have been almost daily reports of Palestinians being killed seeking assistance. Eyewitnesses say that most have been shot by Israeli forces.
The United Nations Human Rights Office said on Tuesday that it had recorded 674 murders in the area around the four sites of GHF in southern and central Gaza in the last six weeks. Another 201 murders were recorded with the United Nations and other aid convoy routes, it was added.
Prior to Wednesday, the GHF denied that there was a deadly incident in close proximity to its sites and accused the United Nations of using “false and misleading” data from Gaza’s Hamas-Interested Health Ministry.
The Israeli army said last week that it was believed that there were incidents in which citizens were damaged and it was working to reduce the minimum “population and possible friction”. [Israeli] As much as possible for force “.
GHF uses private security contractors to distribute assistance from sites in the military areas of Israel.
The United Nations refused to cooperate with it, describing its set unethically.
