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More than 70 Palestinians were killed and hundreds were injured this Thursday by the Israeli attack on a crowd of citizens who gathered to wait for the arrival of food in the northern city of Gaza.
The official Wafa news agency reported that the incident occurred this morning on Al-Rashid Street, when the military opened machine gun fire on thousands of people desperate for food.
He detailed that 57 fatalities and more than 254 injured were transferred to the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, although he clarified that the number is so high that it exceeds the capacity of medical personnel to treat these cases.
Another 20 bodies and 160 injured were sent to Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north of the Strip, and more than 90 wounded were transferred to Al-Awda medical center in Jabalia.
In the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, planes bombed several residential squares, also causing dozens of deaths and injuries, he added.
Wafa reported that at least 25 citizens, most of them children and women, were killed in another attack on the Nuseirat and Al-Bureij refugee camps.
According to the World Food Programme, the population of the coastal enclave suffers from “unprecedented levels of desperation”, while the United Nations warned that 2.2 million people are on the brink of famine.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations also recently warned that Gazans are affected by unprecedented levels of food insecurity and acute hunger.
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