Dozens of Palestinians killed while waiting for food trucks in Gaza
At least 45 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip while waiting for UN and commercial trucks to enter the territory with desperately needed food, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry and a local hospital.
Palestinian witnesses told The Associated Press that Israeli forces had fired on the crowds.
It did not appear to be related to a new Israeli and US-supported aid delivery network that rolled out last month and has been marred by controversy and violence.
Yousef Nofal, an eyewitness, said he saw many people motionless and bleeding on the ground after Israeli forces opened fire. “It was a massacre,” he said, adding that the soldiers continued firing on people as they fled from the area.
Mohammed Abu Qeshfa said he heard a loud explosion followed by heavy gunfire and tank shelling. “I survived by a miracle,” he said.
Killings
Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire on crowds trying to reach food distribution points run by a separate US and Israeli-backed aid group since the centres opened last month. Local health officials say scores have been killed and hundreds wounded.
In those instances, the Israeli military has acknowledged firing warning shots at people it said had approached its forces in a suspicious manner.
Israel says the new system is designed to prevent Hamas from siphoning off aid to fund its militant activities.
Restrictions
UN agencies and major aid groups deny there is any major diversion of aid and have rejected the new system, saying it cannot meet the mounting needs in Gaza and that it violates humanitarian principles by allowing Israel to control who has access to aid. Experts have warned of widespread famine in Gaza.
The UN-run network has delivered aid across Gaza throughout the 20-month Israel-Hamas war but has faced major obstacles since Israel loosened a total blockade it had imposed from early March until mid-May.
UN officials say Israeli military restrictions, a breakdown of law and order, and widespread looting make it difficult to deliver the aid that Israel has allowed in.
Israel’s military campaign since October 2023 has killed over 55,300 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
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Obviously the Zionists and their several supporters will deny any involvement because they have never killed any innocent civilians. Yes, because they consider all residents of Ghazza to be complicit in the October 2023 massacre. Other than that, I cannot fathom the strength of hatred it takes to fire upon innocent people who just want to collect some nourishment. This level of hatred is unbelievable.
It becomes believable when those Jewish heroes who saw through, turned their backs on and bravely came out to tell the world about the child abuse they suffered under the grooming indoctrination of their upbringing which stripped them of empathy and taught them to hate and dehumanise Palestinians and Arabs in general without question. Israel will sadly never live in peace until this conveyor belt is stopped.
How do you propose to stop this conveyor belt?
Only they can. There seem to be increasing numbers on seeing this heinous live streamed genocide who see through what has been done to them and are saying ‘this is not in my name’ and the sick teachings they were victims of will not be passed on to their children. Those numbers must keep rising though. Furthermore, the ICJ must rule that a genocide has been carried out and the death cult leaders must be rounded up, charged and convicted. There is no better way to show the emboldened that this is where their indoctrination programme leads and that the… Read more »
Or just follow the zionists rule book and exterminate them as they are doing now. But I am grateful to the Jewish people that have spoken out against this genocide and others before this. The terrorist actions of Hamas on October 7th was inexcusable. But this response is disproportionate and despite this they have not located the remaining hostages.