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SvennoJ on 01 March 2024
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UN calls for probe of Israeli forces, documents ‘at least 14’ attacks on Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza

The UN’s human rights office for the occupied Palestinian territories has called for a “prompt … impartial and effective investigation” into the killing of at least 112 Palestinians and the injuring of an estimated 760 when Israeli forces attacked people seeking food assistance on Thursday.

“Effective investigations are urgent and essential, to ensure accountability for any violations as well as with a view to reviewing rules of engagement for forces operating in populated areas,” the UN office said in a statement.

Between mid-January and the end of February, the UN office said it had “recorded at least 14 incidents involving shooting and shelling of people gathered to receive desperately needed supplies” at the Kuwait Roundabout on Salah al-Din Street and Al Nabulsi Roundabout.

“A majority of these incidents” resulted in casualties, the UN said.

“Israel’s choices of methods and means of warfare have caused a humanitarian catastrophe,” it added.

UN witness: Injured from aid-seekers attack by Israeli forces suffered ‘gunshot wounds’

Georgios Petropoulos of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that he had seen people with gunshot wounds sustained during the deadly attack by Israeli forces on thousands of Palestinians wanting to receive food aid in Gaza City on Thursday.

“It is one day after the tragic events at the Beach Road checkpoint, where hundreds of people lost their life and were injured,” Petropoulos said in a video report shared on social media. “As I speak to you, this hospital is treating more than 200 people that were injured yesterday. We have seen people with gunshot wounds. We have seen amputees, and we have seen children as young as 12 that were injured yesterday,” he said.

“These events cannot be allowed to go on,” he added. “We need to have safe, secure passage throughout Gaza to reach the people that need humanitarian aid. We need every single crossing into Gaza opening and these people need to have not just food and water, but the hospitals need equipment.”

WHO: ‘Sad threshold’ as 10 children confirmed starved to death in Gaza

The World Health Organization has said that at least 10 children are confirmed to have starved to death in hospitals in Gaza.

WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier described the number as a “sad threshold”. “These are official records and as you all point out, exactly, the unofficial numbers can unfortunately be expected to be higher,” Lindmeier said in a video posted on X.

“And once we see them, once we see them registered in hospitals, once we see them registered officially, it’s already further down the line.”



According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the ministry confirmed four more deaths of children, which brought the total so far to 10, while a further 193 Palestinians were killed and 920 injured between Thursday afternoon and midday on Friday.

The majority of those reported killed during the period covered in the latest OCHA report were victims of an Israeli military attack on aid-seekers in Gaza City.

OCHA reported that several countries have now called for an independent investigation into the actions of Israeli forces and the circumstances surrounding what has been branded the “flour massacre”.