Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say : NPR
The Palestinians react after carrying the bodies of those who were killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza by crossing Zikim with Israel, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday.
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On Sunday, at least 94 Palestinians were killed by Israeli military fires across Gaza as they were trying to obtain food aid, according to local health authorities and hospital morgue officials, in one of the deadliest days in recent months for those who are asking for help.
The deadliest incident occurred in northern Gaza, near the Israeli border area of Zikim, where at least 81 Palestinians were killed while trying to seize bags of flour for the world of United Nations Food Program Trucks which entering Israel.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that Israeli military forces had “targeted civilians awaiting humanitarian aid” north of Beit Lahia. The organization said that a hospital on the Gaza City field it operates had 95 injured people, some of whom were in critical condition.
In a statement, Israeli defense forces said that his troops had met thousands of Palestinians gathered in northern Gaza and “warned warning to remove an immediate threat imposed on them”.
The Israeli army said it was examining the incident but that “initial examination suggests that the number of victims reported does not align with the information held by the FDI”.
Since May, WFP has provided food aid in Gaza in a separate program in the United States and the food distribution system supported by the United States and Israeli. Many WFP assistance trucks were looted by armed gangs and hungry crowds while entering Gaza.
In a statement, the WFP said that its convoy of 25 trucks had been released from the control points to enter Gaza on Sunday morning when it met a massive crowd of “hungry civilians”, then was criticized.
“PAM reiterates that any violence involving civilians looking for humanitarian aid is completely unacceptable,” said the group. “We continue to call for the protection of all civilians and humanitarian workers providing vital aid.”
Sunday was one of the deadliest days that Gaza health officials have recorded in recent months for the Palestinians in search of aid in the midst of serious food shortages and generalized hunger.
Among them was Hassan Abu Marasah, who was injured in the head and leg of Israeli tanks in northern Gaza and was treated at Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
“Hunger makes you desperate,” he cried. “I don’t have food at home. I went out to feed my children. And that’s what happened to me.”
Also Sunday, Israel announced new evacuations in a part of Central Gaza where he said that his soldiers had not previously operated.
The people of the southwest of Deir Al-Balah, a city about 10 miles southwest of Gaza City, were invited to leave for their safety, according to a post on X of Avichay Adraee, the spokesperson for the defense forces of Israel for the Arab media.
Adraee told anyone nearby, “including those inside the tents located in the region”, to evacuate south towards Al-Mawasi, in the post translated from Arabic.
In a later article on X, Adraee urged people not to return to a number of areas in the north of Gaza – including “Beit Lahia, Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, Shuja’iyya, Daraj, Old City, Tuffah, Zaytoun and their districts”.
He said the areas were “dangerous combat zones” and said the FDI operated there “with extreme intensity”.
Pope Leo XIV, speaking on Sunday, cried the death of three people who were restarting himself at the Church of the Sainte-Famille in Gaza City and called for an “immediate barbarism stop” in Gaza.
Anas Baba of NPR has brought back to Gaza City.
