More than a hundred Gazans died today and more than 700 were injured in a chaotic incident during the distribution of food and humanitarian aid in the city of Gazawhere he Israeli army He admitted having opened fire, although he maintains that most of the victims were in an avalanche caused by hungry crowds.
At least 112 Gazans died and another 760 were injured this Thursday in that incident on the street Al Rashidin the southeast of Gaza City, when they were waiting for humanitarian aid that arrived in a convoy of 32 trucks, according to the latest data from the Strip’s Ministry of Health.
“According to citizen testimonies, several victims have not yet been recovered in the vicinity”indicated the Health spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qudraafter confirming the arrival of eight new fatalities at Shifa hospital.
«The attack was premeditated and intentional, in the context of the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the people of the Gaza Strip. “The occupation army knew that these victims had come to this area to obtain food and help, but they killed them in cold blood.”denounced the Gazan government, controlled by Hamas.
However, the Israeli Army denied this claim and maintains that most of the deaths were in an “avalanche” caused by a hungry crowd who looted and surrounded the trucks carrying aid, forcing them to retreat.
«The majority of victims occurred in this incident with trucks. Many died run over, crushed.”said a military spokesman, who denied the involvement of Israeli troops.
He did confirm an alleged second incident, a few meters from the first, in which Israeli forces “opened fire” on a small group of Gazans perceived as a “threat in a war zone.”
“It was a limited response, with limited fire,” said the military officer, who did not estimate how many victims could have occurred in that second incident.
However, Palestinian sources do not speak of two separate incidents, but of a single massacre in which there was artillery fire and gunshots.
«We do not treat any cases of asphyxiation. “What we saw were injuries from shrapnel, bullets and tank ammunition.”said the head of the nursing department at Shifa Hospital, Jadallah Alshafito Palestinian media.
Palestinian groups condemn the incident
Both the Islamist movement Hamaswhich governs the Gaza Strip, as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad o to Palestinian National Authorityof the president Mahmoud Abbascondemned this Thursday the death of more than a hundred Gazans who were waiting for food.
“This atrocious massacre in Gaza, unprecedented in the history of war crimes, is part of (Israel’s) war of hunger and displacement against our people”Hamas lamented.
The presidency of the ANP – which governs small areas of the occupied West Bank but is immersed in a reform to regain control of Gaza when the war ends – also denounced a “complicit international silence in the face of these crimes of genocide unprecedented in modern history” and called for immediate intervention to stop the war.
The incident occurs on the same day that the official death toll in the Strip since the war began exceeded 30,000, after the Ministry of Health registered 81 deaths until dawn today, so more than a hundred remain to be counted. of deaths in the distribution of aid in Gaza City
It also occurs at a time when the international community is putting pressure on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Strip, at risk of famine, especially in the north.
The Government of the Palestinian enclave also accused Israel today of wanting to “starve” Gazans and stated that more than 700,000 people are suffering from famine in the north of the Strip.
The Ministry of Health confirmed on Wednesday that in the last two days six children have died from malnutrition and dehydration in the north of the Strip, where two hospitals stopped functioning.
On Wednesday, 116 trucks of humanitarian aid entered the Strip, an insufficient amount to meet the pressing needs of the enclave, mired in an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, and below the average of 300 trucks a day that entered before the war.
According to UNRWAsome 2,300 trucks have entered Gaza so far in February, 50% less than in January.
Given the difficulty of introducing humanitarian aid by land, several countries – including Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, France y Arab Emirates– have dropped packages with food and supplies from the air, a strategy that the day before benefited the inhabitants of the north of the enclave for the first time. The United States is also considering resorting to this formula.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahumet last night in Jerusalem with the new UN coordinator for humanitarian aid and reconstruction of Gaza, Sigrid Kaagand the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallantalso spoke on the phone last night about the subject with his American colleague, Lloyd Austin. EFE (I)
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