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Israeli forces and drones would have killed dozens in the latest attacks on people looking for help in Gaza.
The violence, carried out while the Palestinians expected help on the distribution sites across the enclave on Tuesday, may have killed up to 50 people in total, according to Palestinian health workers and witnesses, although the figures are not checked.
Murders are the last of a Daily carnage wave The distribution points near the aid created at the end of last month by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), supported by the United States and the United States, that the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugees (Undam) labeled a “death trap”.
Sources in the Gaza hospitals told Al Jazeera in Al Jazeera that up to 50 people had been killed by Israel Fire distribution centers near Dawn, as well as 21 others across the territory.
Medical sources have indicated that at least 25 people had been killed during an incident on rue Salah al-Din south of Wadi Gaza in the center of Gaza, according to the Associated Press news agency. More than 140 other people were injured, including 62 of them.
Images published on the Instagram social media site and verified by the Sanad agency in Al Jazeera have shown bodies brought to the Al-Awda hospital in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp.
Similar scenes have been reported in the Nasser medical complex south of Khan Younis, following unaccounts that the Israeli army had targeted people while waiting for help on al-Tina street.
People approaching an aid point in Gaza City were also killed, Hani Mahmoud of Al Jazeera reported in the city in the north of the territory, as well as Rafah in the south.
“Losses have been committed in various health establishments, including the Al-Shifa Hospital [in Gaza City]”, He said.” The emergency district turned into a bloodbath, and many have died while waiting for medical care. »»
Witnesses told AP that Israeli forces had opened fire while people were approaching aid trucks.
“It was a massacre,” said Ahmed Halawa, reporting that tanks and drones had fired “even if we flee”.
The Israeli army said that it examined reports from fire victims by its troops after a group of people approached soldiers in an area near the militarized corridor of Netzarim.
Israel said that previous shots near the GHF help sites were caused by the approach of the “suspects” towards the soldiers.
Witnesses and humanitarian groups said that many shots had taken place without warning.
‘Trap of death’
The murder of aid seekers has become almost daily occurrence Since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has resumed the distribution of food and other vital supplies.
The Foundation launched its aid distribution program at the end of May after Israel has completely cut the Gaza supplies for more than two months, which prompted warnings from mass famine.
The United Nations refused to work with the GHF, citing concerns that it favors Israeli military objectives on humanitarian needs and condemned it for its “armament” of aid.
GHF distribution sites were prey scenes chaos and carnage. More than 400 people have been killed and 1,000 injured by Israeli soldiers since the start of the deployment of GHF aid.
The head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees Philippe Lazzarini said on Tuesday that the Gaza aid distribution system was “an abomination”.
“The so-called newly created aid mechanism is an abomination that humiliates and degrades desperate people,” said at a press conference in Berlin. “It is a death trap that costs more lives than it saves.”
In a published letter On Monday, the International Commission of Jurists – a human rights NGO of eminent lawyers and judges – joined 14 other groups to condemn the GHF and call for “an end of private militarized humanitarian forces in Gaza”.
Philip Grant, Executive Director of the NGO Trial International, based in Geneva, said that the GHF militarized and privatized assistance service model “violates the basic humanitarian principles”.
He added that those who allowed or took advantage of the GHF work faced a “real risk of prosecution for complicity in war crimes, including the forced transfer of civilians and the famine of civilians as a method of war”.
