The Israeli army denied on Friday March 15 having attacked and killed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid in the north of the Gaza Strip, which Hamas accuses. “Press reports that Israeli forces attacked dozens of Gazans at an aid distribution point are incorrect”declared the Israeli army in a brief statement, specifying “analyze the incident seriously” but without detailing at this stage his version of the facts.
The Hamas health ministry reported early Friday that twenty people had died and more than a hundred were injured in “Israeli fire” on a crowd of people waiting for humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip. “Israeli occupying forces targeted a gathering of citizens waiting for humanitarian aid (at a Gaza City roundabout). The toll of victims transported to Al-Shifa hospital was revised upwards to 20 dead and 155 injured.declared the ministry which earlier reported 14 deaths.
On site, at the hospital, an Agence France-Presse employee saw numerous ambulances transporting remains and bullet wounds.
Fear of widespread famine
The UN fears widespread famine in the territory besieged by Israel, particularly in the difficult-to-access North, where around 300,000 people currently live.
Faced with the humanitarian emergency, several countries have decided to diversify the delivery routes of aid to the population, via airdrops or a maritime corridor from Cyprus with a first ship, from the NGO Open Arms, expected in the next few hours.
At the end of February, more than a hundred people lost their lives, according to Hamas, in a food aid distribution which turned into a nightmare in the north of the Gaza Strip where Israeli forces admitted to having opened fire on Palestinians justifying that his soldiers there then considered themselves ” threat “.