At least 22 dead in Gaza in Israeli shots – Liberation
The Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip reported at least 22 dead on Sunday and more than 120 injured in Israeli fire against people who were heading to an American center of Distribution of food aid. Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal evokes « Shots from Israeli vehicles to thousands of citizens who were heading early Saturday morning to the American aid site west of Rafah », In the south of the Gaza Strip, the spokesman for the Civil Defense Mahmoud Basal told AFP.
There humanitarian situation is disastrous in the Gaza Strip, where a blockade of more than two months, partially softened last week, resulted in serious shortages of food, drugs and other basic necessities.
Israel recently has it intensified its military operationswith the aim of taking control of the entire Palestinian territory, destroying Hamas, and release the latest hostages Removed during the unprecedented attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7, 2023 in Israel, which sparked the war.
Friday, the UN denounced the looting by individuals armed with « Large quantities » medical equipment and nutrition supplements just arrived in a country hospital in the center of the Gaza Strip. And Wednesday, A warehouse of the World Food Program in the territory had been looted by « Hordes of hungry people », According to this United Nations agency.
Update at 9:50 a.m. with a new assessment.
