Israel-backed group says 20 Palestinians trampled on the ground and killed at the Gaza AIDS site – National
On Wednesday, 20 Palestinians were killed in mass obsessions at a food distribution site run by an American organization in the Gaza Strip, the group said. According to hospital officials, the death was caused by the Israeli strike killing 41 people, including 11 children.
Gaza Humanitarian Fund accused Hamas militant group of aroused panic and spreading false information, leading to violence, although it provided no evidence to support the claim.
It said 19 people were trampled and one person was fatally stabbed at a hub in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis. Gaza’s Ministry of Health and witnesses said GHF workers used tear gas on the crowd, inciting panic. The ministry said this is the first time people have been killed by trampled people in aid sites.
It is also the first time that the GHF has confirmed the death of its distribution site, although Palestinian witnesses, health officials and UN agencies said hundreds of people were killed while heading to the hub for food.
Witnesses say stun grenades and pepper spray cause confusion
Some witnesses said that after receiving the news, the crowd panicked and said that no aid would be distributed or would only be distributed in the future. Others say people are trapped in trying to pass through a rotating fence system, which creates bottlenecks.
Omar al-Najjar, a resident of the nearby city of Rafah, said people were gasping for the air, probably due to tear gas.
Carrying with three other men, Al-Najjar said, “It’s not from gunfire, but from gunfire, but people gathered and pushed each other. He said the chaos at these locations was forcing Palestinians to “marche towards death.”
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“They used stun grenades and pepper spray on us,” Abdullah Aleyat said on Wednesday morning at the GHF site.
“When they saw people killing each other, they opened the door and people suffocated each other and suffocated,” Aleyat stood in the ward with some injured people.
Video released by the GHF’s aid allocation released earlier this year shows hundreds of Palestinians fighting for aid and sprinting towards these locations when they are open.
In other recent videos obtained by the Associated Press’s recent US contractor with GHF, Palestinians seeking to enter these locations are crowded between metal fences as contractors deploy tear gas and stun grenades.
These locations are located in the Israeli military zone protected by private contractors in the United States. Israeli troops surround the sites, but the army said they were not nearby.
The UN Human Rights Office and the Gaza Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that 875 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food since May, 674 of which are allocated locations for assistance run by GHF.
The ministry and witnesses say most of the deaths came from Israeli gunfire. Israeli troops said it fired a warning gun and only used active fires would be used by the crowds of people threatening their soldiers.
GHF, a Delaware-registered U.S. organization, was founded in February to distribute assistance during the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Meanwhile, an Israeli strike killed 22 people in the city of Gaza, including 11 children and 3 women, and 19 others in Khan Younis. The Israeli military said that the Hamas Martor Infrastructure of Hamas of Tunnels of Tunnels and Outerons Storage has reached more than 120 targets in the past 24 hours.
Israel blames Hamas for civilian deaths because the organization often operates in residential areas.
Also on Wednesday, the Israeli military announced the opening of a new corridor (the fourth) that was split in two by Khan Younis, and Israeli forces seized the land in what they said was a pressure strategy against Hamas. In the past, these narrow lands have been a serious obstacle in the ceasefire negotiations, where it hopes to maintain its military presence, as Israel has said.
Negotiations in the Katari capital between Israel and Hamas are at a standstill after 21 months of conflict, a cross-border attack by militants that began on October 7, 2023. The militants killed about 1,200 people that day, mostly civilians and most of them 251, most of whom have released most of them in the Sceasefire Mansensesects.
Fifty hostages are still in possession, only half of whom are considered alive.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel’s retaliatory offensive killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, which says women and children account for more than half of the dead. It does not distinguish between civilians and militants.
The ministry is part of Hamas’s government operation. The United Nations and other international organizations consider their figures to be the most reliable number of casualties.
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