2024-02-29 21:43:56
At least 104 Palestinians were killed and more than 700 were injured this Thursday, in a attack – suspected by the Israeli army – against one crowd of civilians trying to collect humanitarian aid in Gaza City.
The events were recorded in videos that were spread on social networks. In a first statement, the Israeli Army confessed that it opened fire after a dangerous situation arose due to the approach of dozens of people to troops stationed in the area. “Several people surrounding the trucks approached the Israeli soldiers who were controlling the security of the trucks’ passage. The crowd approached the troops in such a way that they posed a threat to the soldiers, who responded by opening fire. The incident is under investigation“says the note.
Regarding the injuries suffered by hundreds of Palestinians, the Israeli army maintains that they were caused by “trampling” by the “violent” crowd that was trying to “loot” the aid trucks.
Workers at a nearby hospital, however, told Al Jazeera radio that Citizens were hit by drones, gunfire and artillery when they rushed humanitarian aid trucks and not within the framework of a “threat to Israeli soldiers”, as the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu maintains.
Due to the lack of ambulances and doctors in the area, which until today was practically isolated due to the Israeli offensive against Hamas, which has caused the displacement of thousands of civilians, most of the injured -who had approached the place due to the announcement of the arrival of humanitarian aid- She had to be transported to health centers in carts pulled by donkeys.
This Thursday was the first convoy to arrive in the last 30 daysafter the United Nations denounced the worsening famine of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians since the war began in early October.