More than 100 people were killed and at least 760 injured this Thursday in an Israeli attack on the site where hundreds of Gaza residents lived They were waiting in Gaza City for the humanitarian aid to be distributed. as reported by the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
The media office of the Hamas-controlled Gaza government initially reported that about 70 people were killed in the attack on Al-Rashid Street in southeast Gaza City, a number that could rise in the future.
The Israeli army has just announced that it fired on a crowd of people who posed a “threat” during food distribution and that dozens were injured “by being pushed and trampled” after they surrounded the trucks carrying humanitarian aid and began looting had begun, it said in a statement.
“The attack was deliberate and premeditated in the context of the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the population of the Gaza Strip. The occupying army knew that these victims had come to this area for food and assistance, but it killed them in cold blood,” the Gaza Strip government denounced in a statement.
Today it has increased The number of people killed in the war in Gaza rises to over 30,000initiated on October 7 after an attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 kidnapped.
According to authorities, the 30,000 deaths include 81 who were registered in the last 24 hours, but not the hundred people who lost their lives while distributing food.
The news comes as the international community is putting pressure on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
This Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the new UN coordinator for humanitarian assistance and reconstruction in Gaza, Sigrid Kaag, in his office in Jerusalem.
The Palestinian enclave’s government also today accused Israel of wanting to “starve” the people of Gaza, saying more than 700,000 people are suffering from famine in northern Gaza. Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed on Wednesday that six children have died of malnutrition and dehydration in northern Gaza over the past two days.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant also spoke about this issue with his American counterpart Lloyd Austin last night.
On Wednesday, 116 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip – 92 of them through the Kerem Shalom crossing on the border with Israel and 24 through the Rafah crossing linked to Egypt’s Sinai – an amount that is insufficient to meet the urgent need Meeting needs The enclave is in the grip of an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, below the average of 300 trucks per day that entered before the war.
According to UNRWA, around 2,300 trucks have entered the Gaza Strip so far in February, 50% fewer than in January.
Faced with the difficulty of delivering humanitarian aid by land, several countries – including Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, France and the Arab Emirates – have airdropped packages of food and aid, a strategy that was announced yesterday to residents of the country’s north benefited for the first time. Enclave.