According to Palestinian health officials, at least 72 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since dawn, including 29 people who had been waiting for aid trucks. This is the most recent carnage affecting people who are frantically awaiting food for their afflicted families.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that the most recent daily killing of Palestinian aid workers in recent weeks occurred on Salah al-Din Street near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza on Wednesday morning. According to them, the attack left over 100 people injured.
In another deadly Israeli attack on a home south of Gaza, an airstrike struck the Zeitoun neighborhood, killing eight people and injuring others, according to medical sources.
In Israel’s attacks on tents of displaced people in the south of Gaza, eight more people were killed, according to medical sources, and others were injured, according to medical sources. A woman and two children were among the victims, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
According to reports from news agencies, medical personnel were also injured at the Maghazi camp in central Gaza. A husband, wife, and children from a single family were among the ten people killed in the strike, according to Wafa.
Hamas criticized Israel’s assault on residential areas in the enclave as well as its targeting of aid seekers at distribution centers run by the contentious US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
The group claimed that “war crimes” are perpetrated by the occupation, the systematic abuse of innocent civilians, the escalation of massacres, the targeting of the starving, forced evictions, and the shrinking of areas that the occupation claims are “safe.” Israel’s attacks are “a part of the brutal extermination that has been going on for almost 20 months,” it continued.
When asked for comment, the Israeli military disclosed to Reuters that it was investigating reports of people dying while waiting for food.
The bodies of 20 people who had been shot dead by Israeli forces in northern Gaza were left on the street for five days before the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs received approval to coordinate their recovery, according to Al Jazeera reporters on the ground later on Wednesday.
He requested a bag of flour.
After Israel partially lifted a nearly three-month total blockade on food, medicines, and other essential items, the GHF began distributing a small amount of food aid in Gaza at the end of May, which sparked fears of famine for the 2.3 million people who live there. Israel has in effect kept the punishing blockade in place by allowing no other aid to enter.
In the midst of the chaos, desperate Palestinians are given a tight window of opportunity to search for food, making Israeli mass killings of aid seekers a somber occurrence.
The GHF has been criticized by the UN and other major humanitarian organizations for its refusal to cooperate, citing concerns that it prioritizes Israeli military needs over humanitarian needs and avoids organizations with decades of experience in providing food and medicine to Gaza’s entire population.
Ahmed Ghaben described the relative’s death to Al Jazeera as “a martyr,” as his nephew was reported to have traveled to bring his children a bag of flour. He left 14 members of his family. He was hungry, so he went to get aid. He fought against the opposition. He went to the flour bag.
According to Tareq Abu Azzoum, who spoke from Deir el-Balah, it is abundantly clear that Israeli forces are attacking civilians who have only ever gone to get bags of flour or food. According to witnesses, the soldiers used a variety of weapons, including tanks and drones. The civilians have also been shot down by snipers who have been stationed in nearby hills.
The Israeli military asserts that these enraged citizens pose a security threat, but these assertions have not been proven by credible evidence.
In Gaza’s most bloody day of violence so far, Israeli troops killed at least 70 Palestinians and injured hundreds as they sought help on Tuesday.
Since late May’s distribution resumed, the Gaza-based Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday that 397 Palestinian aid seekers had died and more than 3, 000 had been injured.
Warning about urgent fuel
Since the conflict broke out in October 2023, Gaza’s health ministry has reported an increase in the number of fatalities to 55, 637, and the number of injured has increased to 129, 880.
The ministry also issued a warning about severe fuel shortages, stating that only three days’ worth of fuel were available at the territory’s few fully functional hospitals.
The ministry claimed that Israeli forces were preventing international aid organizations and UN organizations from gaining access to hospital fuel storage facilities under the pretext that they were in “red zones” and threatened to shut down hospitals that rely on generators for power.
A top Houthis leader in Yemen, one of Iran’s key allies, said they will continue to support Palestinians in the Gaza Strip until Israeli “aggression stops, and the siege is lifted, while much of the world’s attention is now focused on the Israeli-Iran conflict and what the United States may or may not do.
Source: Aljazeera
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