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SvennoJ on 29 February 2024
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Death toll from Israeli attack on aid seekers rises to 112

The Gaza Health Ministry says eight more people have been confirmed dead as bodies arrive at al-Shifa Hospital, adding that additional victims are still being recovered from the area in Gaza City where Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians waiting to receive humanitarian assistance.

At least 760 people have been injured in the incident, according to the ministry.


UN Security Council to meet on Gaza aid shooting

The United Nations’ top body will meet today at 21:15 GMT to discuss the 112 people killed and 760 wounded in an Israeli attack in north Gaza. This meeting will be held at the request of Algeria, and will be a closed session.

UN chief condemns attack on ‘desperate’ Palestinian aid-seekers

Antonio Guterres has decried the shooting by Israeli forces of a crowd of hungry Palestinians in Gaza City, at least 112 of whom were killed and 760 injured.

“The secretary-general condemns the incident today in northern Gaza in which more than a hundred people were reportedly killed or injured while seeking life-saving aid. The desperate civilians in Gaza need urgent help, including those in the besieged north where the United Nations has not been able to deliver aid in more than a week,” his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters.

“The secretary-general is appalled by the tragic human toll of the conflict in Gaza, in which more than 30,000 people have now reportedly been killed and over 70,000 injured. Tragically, an unknown number of people lie under rubble,” he continued.


Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli attack on aid seekers in Gaza

The kingdom’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it strongly denounces the killings by Israeli forces of dozens of civilians awaiting aid convoys in northern Gaza. The ministry called for an “immediate ceasefire” to mitigate the humanitarian crisis and urged the international community to “take a strong position to compel Israel to respect international humanitarian law”.

Belgium deputy PM ‘horrified’ by shooting in Gaza

Petra De Sutter says she is “horrified” by the news of Palestinians in Gaza having been shot at while waiting to receive aid. “Murdering people queueing for essential humanitarian aid?”, she wrote on X. “This is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and fully goes against the [International Court of Justice’s] provisional measures.”

The ICJ issued a set of provisional measures last month that require Israel to comply with the 1948 Genocide Convention, allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza and act against those who issue genocidal statements.


UNRWA chief laments ‘another day from hell’ in Gaza

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says Gaza has experienced “another day from hell” as the death toll in the Israeli war on Hamas has surpassed 30,000 and as Israeli forces opened fire on hungry Palestinians waiting for food aid. For weeks, aid groups have warned that severe Israeli restrictions on humanitarian assistance in northern Gaza were contributing to extreme hunger and a collapse of civil order.

“Another day from hell. Gaza reaches an unprecedented reported death toll of 30,000 Palestinians killed, while an additional 100 people are reportedly killed and 700 injured when they were desperately trying to get lifesaving humanitarian aid from a convoy,” Lazzarini said in a social media post.

“Neither UNRWA nor any other UN agency were involved in this distribution. When will this madness end?”


Life draining out of Gaza at terrifying speed: UN aid chief

Martin Griffiths says he’s “appalled” at the killing and wounding of hundreds of people during the transfer of aid earlier today.

“Life is draining out of Gaza at terrifying speed,” the UN undersecretary for humanitarian affairs wrote in a post on X, noting that even after almost five months of “brutal hostilities, Gaza still has the ability to shock us”.



Israel has crossed ‘all lines’

Commenting on the deadly Israeli attack on aid seekers in Gaza earlier today, Tamer Qarmout of the Doha Institute says Israel has been using starvation and aid as a “weapon” from day one against civilians in the besieged territory. “Israel has crossed all the lines when it comes to abiding by any moral conduct in any war,” he told Al Jazeera. “It can do what it wants because there it has impunity. So there’s no accountability … and the international community is totally paralysed. There’s nothing they can do.”

Moreover, Qarmout said its “outrageous” for Israeli forces to claim they feel threatened by aid-seekers. “They are the occupiers, they are the ones who invaded Gaza. They are the ones who have done all this killing and destruction,” he asserted.


Progressive US Jewish group says Gaza mass shooting ‘beyond reprehensible’

The youth-led organisation IfNotNow has decried the killings of more than 100 Palestinians when Israeli forces opened fire on aid seekers in northern Gaza. “It is beyond reprehensible that the Israeli military gunned down over 100 starving Palestinians as they waited for much-needed aid. There can be no justification for this atrocity,” IfNotNow spokesperson Eva Borgwardt said in a statement.

“It’s past time for President Biden to halt weapons transfers to an Israeli military that is slaughtering Palestinians.”


Biden's 'concern'

Biden reacts to Israeli attack on aid recipients

US President Joe Biden has said that an attack on Palestinians waiting for aid in northern Gaza, where humanitarian groups say Israel has severely restricted food assistance over the last several months, will complicate efforts to reach an agreement between Hamas and Israel.

“I know it will,” Biden told reporters when asked if the attack will make a ceasefire more difficult to reach. He added that a pause in the fighting would probably not come by next Monday, as he had predicted in remarks earlier this week.

Biden also said that there are “two competing versions of what happened” during the attack and that the US was “checking” on what had happened.Palestinian witnesses have said that the incident began when Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd that was waiting for food.


No the pause won't come by next Monday cause you made that all up yourself. Both Israel and Hamas said it's just lies, no deal imminent at all. Fuck Biden, he's no different from Netanyahu, just trying to cover his own ass for the elections.

What competing versions are there? Between the lies from the IDF and thousands of witness statements with evidence of people shot and hit by shrapnel? Yet Biden wants to entertain the IDF's claims that the aid trucks plowed into the crowds, then later when the crowd threatened the Israeli tanks they had to shoot them? Biden needs to be in jail asap. Why is the ICC not doing its job.

White House says gunfire directed at civilians in Gaza a ‘serious incident’

The White House says it is looking into reports of Israeli gunfire on Palestinians waiting for aid near Gaza City, describing it as a “serious incident”. “We mourn the loss of innocent life and recognize the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, where innocent Palestinians are just trying to feed their families,” a White House National Security Council spokesperson said in a statement.

“This underscores the importance of expanding and sustaining the flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, including through a potential temporary ceasefire,” the spokesperson added.


It's a fucking massacre, war crime, atrocity. Serious incident... It's like calling the Oklahoma city bombing a 'serious incident'
Just trying to feed their families? Trying to survive deliberate starvation you mean. Trying to save their children dying from malnutrition like 9 did yesterday.


‘Intentional killing of civilians’

Bassam Zaqout, director of the Palestinian Relief Society, has said that aid-seekers have repeatedly come under attack by Israeli forces in Gaza. “This situation is happening every day, it’s not the first time,” he told Al Jazeera from Rafah, in southern Gaza.

“There is intention to increase the pressure towards Hamas by killing more civilians on the ground while the Israeli forces completely understand there is no operational health system in the Gaza Strip that can deal with such a massacre or with such a huge number of injured at this time,” he said.

“This is intentional killing of civilians who are not involved in this situation; they are just there waiting for humanitarian aid to come, they want to have food for their children, and this is the price that civilians have to pay.”



IDF' narrative already debunked

Footage captures first shots fired on Gaza aid seekers

Footage aired by Al Jazeera Arabic shows the moment in which the Israeli army opened fire on a crowd of people as aid was being delivered on al-Rashid Street. The first shots were fired at about 4:30am (02:30GMT), as hundreds of Palestinians gathered at a major roundabout south of Gaza City



The moment the occupation forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for aid to arrive on Al-Rashid Street.

IDF Spokesman: We didn't shoot the Gazans seeking aid

IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari commented on the death of around 100 Gazans Thursday morning in the northern Gaza Strip saying the army did not fire at them, but secured the humanitarian aid convoy.

Hagari explained that the aid trucks that made their way into the Gaza Strip "encountered a Palestinian mob that tried to loot the equipment on them." According to him, dozens of residents were killed by crowding and unintentional ramming of Palestinian trucks that tried to escape.

"We didn't fire at the aid seekers – neither from the air nor from the ground," he said.





I have no words

Israel’s Ben-Gvir says aid delivery to Gaza endangers soldiers, must stop

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says the provision of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza endangers Israeli soldiers and must stop after more than 100 Palestinians were reported killed while trying to get aid in Gaza City.

“Today it was proven that the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza is not only madness while our hostages are held in the Strip … but also endangers IDF soldiers,” Ben-Gvir said, calling the deliveries “oxygen to Hamas”. The incident is “another clear reason why we must stop transferring this aid”, he wrote on X.

Ben-Gvir also said Israel must “provide complete support to our heroic fighters operating in Gaza, who acted excellently against a Gazan mob that tried to harm them”.

Palestinian officials have denounced the attack on starving civilians in the besieged and bombarded territory as a “cold-blooded massacre”.

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 29 February 2024