For the second time in the past 72 hours, Israeli forces shot at Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City‘s Nabulsi roundabout, Palestine‘s Wafa news agency reported.
The shooting reportedly killed one Palestinian and injured 26 others.
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„At around 3:40am, a tank and a drone approached people and started shooting at random,“ he said. „The shooting and shelling were insane, a level I had never witnessed since the beginning of the war.“
Hassan said the tank came back 15 minutes later with aid trucks, which people rushed towards. He was able to get one flour bag before Israeli forces started shooting again.
„Tens of young men fell in front of me in seconds,“ he said.
UN sees ‘large number of gunshot wounds’ after Israel’s ‘flour massacre’
At least 117 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 wounded during the “flour massacre” at the Nabulsi Roundabout on the southwestern side of Gaza City, after Israeli troops opened fire on the crowd.
On Friday a UN team visited some of the wounded in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, and saw a “large number of gunshot wounds”, UN chief Antonio Guterres’ spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.
UN official: victims of disputed Gaza attack had gunshot wounds
An official with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, reported on social media on Friday that medics at Al-Shifa Hospital are treating more than 200 people injured in the attack, some of whom have gunshot wounds.
A Gaza doctor says gunfire accounted for 80% of the wounds at his hospital after aid convoy bloodshed
Dr. Mohammed Salha, the acting director of Al-Awda Hospital, told The Associated Press that of the 176 wounded brought to the facility, 142 had gunshot wounds and the other 34 showed injuries from a stampede.
He couldn’t address the cause of death of those killed, because the bodies were taken to government-run hospitals to be counted.
Dr. Husam Abu Safyia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said the majority of the injured taken there had gunshot wounds in the upper part of their bodies, and many of the deaths were from gunshots to the head, neck or chest.
Gaza/Israel: Statement by the High Representative on Palestinians citizens killed during a transfer of aid supplies
Last Thursday, over a hundred civilians were killed and many other wounded when desperately trying to get food from a convoy, many of them victims of the Israeli army fire during the ensuing stampede. The firing by Israeli soldiers against civilians trying to access foodstuff is unjustifiable.
We request an impartial international investigation on this tragic event allowing for a clear picture of the events and responsibilities. In any case, it is Israel‘s responsibility to comply with the rules of international law and to protect the distribution of humanitarian aid to civilian populations.
Many of those killed or wounded in Gaza stampede for aid were shot by Israeli army, EU arm says
Many of the Palestinians killed or wounded in the chaos as they tried to get bags of flour from an aid convoy were hit by Israeli army fire, the European Union’s diplomatic service said Saturday, urging an international investigation.
Washington blocks UNSC statement condemning Israel for ‚Flour Massacre‘
“We don’t have all the facts on the ground – that’s the problem,” US deputy ambassador to the UN Robert Wood told reporters on Thursday.
He then claimed there are “contradictory reports” about the Israeli army‘s latest massacre and highlighted that Washington was focused on finding “some language that everyone can agree on.”
US blocks UN Security Council statement blaming Israel for deadly Gaza aid stampede
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN ambassador, tells reporters after an emergency closed council meeting on the deaths, that 14 of the 15 council members supported the statement put forward by Algeria, the Arab representative on the body.
The United States did not support the statement and US deputy ambassador Robert Wood tells a reporter who questions why, “We don’t have all the facts on the ground – that’s the problem.”
Ben Gvir says Israeli troops ‚acted excellently‘, calls for halt in aid to Gaza
After the Palestinian health ministry reported that Israeli troops killed more than 100 people waiting for food aid in northern Gaza on Thursday, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Israeli forces „acted excellently against a Gazan mob that tried to harm them“.
He further called on Israel to stop transferring aid to Gaza.
„This is the fastest decline in a population‘s nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.“ @melanie_ward speaks with @IsaCNN about the catastrophic levels of hunger that Israel‘s blockade is causing in Gaza
„Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul said that after opening fire, Israeli tanks advanced and ran over many of the dead and injured bodies. “It is a massacre, on top of the starvation threatening citizens in Gaza,” he said.“ #Palestine #israel #gaza #IsraelPalestineConflict #genocide #occupation
Entsetzen und Kritik nach Vorfall in Gaza-Stadt
Nach Angaben des Weißen Hauses telefonierte US-Präsident Joe Biden auch mit dem ägyptischen Präsidenten Abdel Fattah al-Sisi und dem katarischen Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. In den Telefonaten hätten alle Beteiligten den Verlust von Menschenleben unter der Zivilbevölkerung bedauert, so das Weiße Haus. Es handle sich um einen „tragischen und alarmierenden Vorfall“. Man sei sich einig, dass dieser Vorfall die Dringlichkeit unterstreiche, die Verhandlungen so bald wie möglich abzuschließen und die humanitäre Hilfe für den Gazastreifen auszuweiten.
‘Cold-blooded massacre’: Israeli forces kill over 104 aid seekers in Gaza
The Israeli military has killed at least 104 Palestinians in Gaza City. Nearly 700 people have also been injured – dozens of them in critical condition. Thursday‘s attack has been described as a massacre of civilians. Hundreds of starving Palestinians had gathered to collect food aid, when they were attacked. Israel‘s army says its soldiers were forced to open fire because they felt threatened by the large crowds.
Israel-Hamas war: Deadly shooting, stampede over Gaza aid kills 100+ Palestinians | LiveNOW from FOX
The Israeli military released aerial video showing an incident Thursday in Gaza City, where the Hamas-run Health Ministry reports more than 100 people were killed. The Health Ministry said Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for aid. Israel said the video shows there was a stampede, as Palestinians in desperate need of aid rushed to the trucks that were carrying food. As some residents moved toward Israeli troops, Israel said the troops fired warning shots and struck some residents in their legs.
Israeli troops open fire on Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza, health ministry says
Health authorities in Gaza said that Israeli fire on people waiting for aid near Gaza City had killed over 100 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more. The Israeli military later said dozens of people were hurt as a result of trampling when the aid trucks arrived and that troops opened fire at „several people“ in the crowd who posed a threat to them.
War on Gaza: Israeli ‚massacre‘ kills over 100 Palestinians seeking food in Gaza City
At least 104 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded when Israeli forces fired on people at an aid convoy in Gaza City’s al-Rasheed Street on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, calling the incident a „massacre“.
Residents of Gaza City had gathered seeking food, with the area completely cut off from aid by Israeli forces. NGOs and UN experts have voiced fears of famine in northern Gaza and there have been reports of people, including babies, dying of hunger.