More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Thursday said at least 104 people were killed and more than 750 wounded, with the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemning what it said was a cold-blooded “massacre”.
News|Israel War on Gaza‘Massacre’: Dozens killed by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting food aidMore than 100 killed and about 750 wounded after Israeli forces fired at Palestinians trying to get flour for their families as famine stalks the Strip.
People had congregated at al-Rashid Street, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way. Al Jazeera verified footage showing the bodies of dozens of killed and wounded Palestinians being carried onto trucks as no ambulances could reach the area.
“We went to get flour. The Israeli army shot at us. There are many martyrs on the ground and until this moment we are withdrawing them. There is no first aid,” said one witness.
Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul said that after opening fire, Israeli tanks advanced and ran over many of the dead and injured bodies. “It is a massacre, on top of the starvation threatening citizens in Gaza,” he said.
The dead and wounded had been taken to four medical centres: al-Shifa, Kamal Adwan, Ahli and the Jordanian hospitals. Ambulances could not reach the area as the roads had been “totally destroyed”, said al-Ghoul.
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@Partis4nPantherGreen2yrs2Y
If your only thought after watching the complete pulverization of Gaza for the past four months is to continue repeating "Israel has a right to defend itself" you might as well just get a lobotomy and be done with it
@DoughnutEddieRepublican2yrs2Y
The Anti-Israel crowd was silent when Russia was completely pulverizing Mariupol and executing civilians in Bucha.
@Partis4nPantherGreen2yrs2Y
The US government wasn't backing Russia at the time. It's currently backing Israel. That tends to explain my area of focus. Were the "doubts" you vaguely claim I raised not well-founded? Did I say anything false when I allegedly highlighted "every Ukrainian with a bad ideology"?
@ElectoralHyenaDemocrat2yrs2Y
Or, they could, you know, return the hostages
@Partis4nPantherGreen2yrs2Y
Why arbitrarily start the story at a hostage-taking? Israel could, y'know, vacate the territories it's been occupying for 57 years now &, y'know, honour its commitments under the Oslo Accords.
It could also release the thousands of Palestinian hostages IT holds.
It amazes me how conservatives and libertarians appose the American government with rightful grievances of mistrust and in the same sentence can completely trust the Israel government with impunity.
I think the onus is pretty clearly on you at this point to explain why one should support the continued obliteration of Gaza by the US-backed Israeli military. Enough with the deflections about Hamas. Either you're for the ongoing pulverization campaign, or you're not
You get your ceasefire. What happens next? And what responsibility does Hamas have in agreeing to ceasefire terms given they’ve started a war and are now virtually surrendering?
@9KF43N22yrs2Y
Israeli needs to leave palstine alone they have left them with nothing over 30,000 people have died 10,000 being kids. they are killing them for no reason they are left hungry and starving to death the usa should side with palstine in the war.
@9KF4BZ8 2yrs2Y
If you’ve ever wondered what you would do if your country participated in genocide, you’re doing it right now.
Israel didn't mention the shout-out in their Statement, they only claim there was a stampede where people were trampled and there was no shelling in the area.
@WeaverHankGreen2yrs2Y
Stop killing innocent people
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