Information about many dead when distributing food in Gaza
The information on the number of dead has varied during the morning. A hospital run by the Red Cross states for Ap that it is about 21 dead. In addition, 175 people must have been injured.
Reuters reports of at least 26 dead, with reference to Hama -coupled media.
The shooting must have happened At one of the distribution sites where the controversial US-supported organization Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distributes emergency assistance. The Israeli military has not commented on the information.
GHF was formed to get food and medicines into the population after a long blockade of humanitarian help. According to Israel, the organization is a guarantee that emergency help will not reach Hamas.
On 28 May at least Three people have been killed and over 40 injured at one of the distribution sites. Israel then admitted that you fired warning shots, but not that you have shot at people.
GHF announced on Saturday that they distributed emergency aid from 30 trucks and that it happened « without incidents ».
Before the war, hundreds of trucks were released with humanitarian aid into Gaza every day. Aid organizations have sharply criticized the new system for GHF to deliver emergency assistance and called it insufficiently. The UN is still stopped from distributing food and medicines to the population.
UN reporter for the right to food, Michael Fakhri, said on Saturday to Al Jazeera That Israel through GHF uses emergency aid to control the population and get them to move south.
– It has nothing to do with stopping starvation.
The text is updated.
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