At least 20 Palestinians were killed while waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza City on Thursday, according to the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health. The tragic incident led to conflict between Hamas and Israel over the method of killing.
The Health Ministry said the Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Thursday night while waiting for aid to be distributed. A further 155 people were injured in the incident, according to the latest information from health authorities.
“What happened at the Kuwait roundabout shows the hidden intentions of the occupation forces to carry out another horrifying massacre,” the Hamas-run organization said in a statement shared on Facebook.
In a statement shared on a pro-Iran Telegram channel, Hamas said more than 30 civilians were killed by Israeli forces and 23 were taken to hospital.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) denied reports that its troops opened fire on Palestinians waiting for aid.
“As the IDF assesses the incident with the thoroughness it deserves, we urge the media to do the same and rely on reliable information,” the military said. Posted on Telegram.
“Palestinian gunmen opened fire near Gaza residents an hour before the humanitarian convoy approached,” Israeli spokesman Avichai Adlai said.
“The IDF continues to investigate what happened, while intensifying efforts to bring humanitarian assistance to residents of the Gaza Strip,” he said. I wrote it in a tweet“At a time when Hamas terrorists are harming the people of Gaza and spreading lies to shift the blame onto the State of Israel.”
The tragic deaths highlight the spiraling humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. In late February, more than 100 Palestinians died in a scramble for relief supplies in Gaza City. The incident also featured conflicting accounts, with Hamas and the Palestinians blaming Israel for firing the shots, and Israeli authorities accusing the aggressive crowd of trampling on each other.
The latest death toll comes on top of a rising death toll in Gaza, where more than 31,000 people have reportedly been killed since the war began in October.
Israel has resisted calls for a ceasefire, in retaliation for an Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people and took another 250 hostages, about 100 of whom are still being held in Gaza. He is threatening the complete destruction of Hamas. .
The United Nations is now warning of famine in Gaza as humanitarian aid trickles in at a much slower pace than the one that flowed to the coast before the war.
The Biden administration is airlifting aid to Gaza and plans to build a pier off the coast to facilitate the transport of more food and water, but the Pentagon says its efforts It will take up to two months.
The situation has raised concerns in the United States, particularly among Democrats who want to expand aid to the Palestinians.
But despite this week’s criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, the highest-ranking Jewish official in U.S. history, the Biden administration and most Democrats have decided not to permanently Avoiding calls for a ceasefire. He called for new elections in Israel at the appropriate time.
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