Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Mohammed Tawfeeq – CNN March 15, 2024
Gaza’s health ministry says at least 20 people were killed and 155 wounded by Israeli shelling as they waited for aid on Thursday, as desperate Palestinians increasingly face deadly violence in their search for food.
Israel’s military has denied being behind the attack and said it was assessing the incident.
The death toll is expected to rise as casualties are still being transferred to the hospital, according to Mohammad Ghrab, a doctor at the emergency unit at Al Shifa Hospital. Earlier, a witness on the scene said dozens of people had died.
Graphic footage from the immediate aftermath of the scene filed by an eyewitness showed multiple bodies with traumatic injuries as well as pools of blood on a street strewn with rubble and dust.
The health ministry said the incident was “a result of the Israeli occupation forces targeting a gathering of citizens waiting for humanitarian aid to satisfy their thirst at the Kuwaiti roundabout in Gaza.”
“Medical teams are unable to deal with the volume and type of injuries reaching hospitals in northern Gaza due to weak medical and human capabilities,” the ministry said.
The attack took place amid a backdrop of extreme hunger and poverty in the besieged enclave due to Israel’s severe restrictions on aid entering Gaza, where more than a half a million people are on the brink of famine, according to UN agencies.
The Kuwaiti Roundabout in Gaza City has become known as an area where aid trucks distribute food, attracting crowds of people desperate for supplies.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) denied it was responsible for the attack, in a short statement to CNN on Friday.
“The reports that the IDF attacked dozens of Gazans at an aid distribution point are false,” the statement said.
The Israeli military said it was assessing “the incident with the thoroughness that it deserves.”
Eyewitnesses said the area was struck by what they said sounded like tank or artillery fire.
Gaza Civil Defense Spokesman Mahmoud Basal accused Israel of being behind the attack in a statement late Thursday.
“The Israeli occupation forces are still practicing the policy of killing innocent citizens waiting for relief aid as a result of the famine occurring in the northern Gaza Strip,” Basal said in a statement.
Israel has for months limited the flow of aid into Gaza, however, some trucks have been allowed into the northern part of the strip where hunger is most acute. Amid a collapse of public authority in Gaza, the arrival of aid trucks has sparked chaos and disorder that often leaves thousands at risk of harm during the distribution.
Attacks on civilians at aid distribution points
A coalition of UK christiands Hindus and Muslims are banding together to stop paying taxes
which go to support israeli terrorism
this is such good news
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/03/14/721870/Palestine-Israel-UK-Gaza-tax-genocide-
Where is the justice for Palestinians? All we ever hear about is poor little Israel amongst a pack of enemies on its holy borders! The really revolting fact in all this is the way October 7 was aided and abetted by Israel itself, sacrificing its own people to “justify” this massive crime against humanity. If Israelis AND Americans were the “humans” they claim to be, they would rise up and make sure “their” leaders were indicted and convicted of the crimes we are now witnessing DAILY in the Gaza Strip.
the americans will never learn to boycot
tax payments . it would involve shooting
at the jewish IR private army.
It amazes people why the government and its agencies put so much time and effort into the LBGT programme
This was begun in earnest with Tony Blairs New labour, when i left school there was just one possible homosexual
now every child leaving school has an indoctrination for this.
Who on earth would allow and encourage transvestites to go onto schools and lecture to the children
Drag Queens telling children they are in the wrong bodies and to come have hormone changing drugs and injections
on a pathway to operations to change their sex.
Who would ruin children’s lives like this ? well it turns out the children will be on an expensive package of drugs for life
and the drug companies will make millions off each child.
Jews claim that Rome fell due to the homosexuality they introduced and the same with Greece, men going with boys was the goal
They want to turn every one into homosexuals, the jews tried this in 30s Germany but Hitler stopped it and all books on perversions were burnt in the streets
The sexual revolution here in 60s Britain was a time when Carnaby st joined in with androgynous unisex clothing, young men began wearing facial make up
called the ” Moda ” there were 2 large homosexual clubs in london for the scooter riding nancy boys
They were mocked and made fun of pop groups produced several records such as ” dedicated follower of fashion ” and ” lola ” about a young transvestite
It all faded out, and now its back with the LBGT thing, TV and magazine adverts of white men with other white men
while adverts show black men with white women
Perversion is main stream, the Camelford drinking water scandal showed that aluminium was being added to the water and so much female hormone was in our drinking water that fish in the sea were changing sex.
Why would government want to do this to its own electorate ? its time the whole LBGT agenda was exposed and closed down