2023-12-29 15:38:00
A humanitarian convoy was bombed. Photo: AFP.
A humanitarian convoy was bombed in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Army without causing victims, denounced the director of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (Unrwa) in the enclave, Thomas White.
“Israeli soldiers fired on an aid convoy as it returned from northern Gaza, using a route designated by the Israeli military,” White wrote on his X account.
“Our convoy leader and his team They were not injured, but one vehicle was damaged.“White added, stressing that “humanitarian workers should never be a target.”
According to UNRWA, the shooting took place on Thursday afternoon, the AFP news agency reported.
The Israeli Army responded that it is investigating the reports.
This Thursday morning, the head of UN humanitarian aid, Martin Griffiths, denounced in X “an impossible situation for the population of Gaza and for those who try to help them.
Griffiths claimed that aid convoys had been fired upon, without providing further details. “Do you think it’s easy to get aid to Gaza? Think again,” she wrote.
The attack on the humanitarian convoy It comes three days after the UN expressed its “great concern” for Israel’s “continuous bombing” of the central Gaza Strip, especially “after Israeli forces ordered” residents to go there.
A day after that statement, Israel responded that it would stop automatically granting visas to agency officials for being “complicit” in the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
The Israeli Army launched an offensive against the Palestinian enclave after the attacks carried out on October 7 by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which left almost 1,200 dead and nearly 240 kidnapped, among whom there were twenty with Argentine nationality.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that more than 21,300 Palestinians have died since that day, as a result of the gigantic military offensive implemented by Israel in the Gaza Strip.
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