Israel’s army targeted defenceless Palestinians in Gaza City: Media office
The media office of the government in Gaza has slammed a reported Israeli attack on Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City. Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that at least 20 bodies and 155 wounded people arrived at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after the incident.
The Israeli forces targeted “a gathering of citizens while they were waiting for relief aid at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City,” the media office’s statement said. The latest attack is “to be added to the series of massacres and brutal attacks against the defenceless civilians who face the Zionist starvation policy,” it also said.
“The failure of the international community and the United Nations to take action against the occupation army was a green light to commit more horrific crimes,” the statement added.
The Israeli military on Thursday denied it opened fire on aid seekers at the Kuwait Roundabout.
Aid seekers wounded by ‘direct shots’ at Kuwait Roundabout: Report
Mohammed Ghurab, director of emergency services at a hospital in northern Gaza, has reportedly said people were wounded by gunshots at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City. He told the AFP news agency that there were “direct shots by the occupation forces” on people waiting for a food truck.
An AFP journalist on the scene saw several bodies and people who had been shot, the agency said.
Come on, don't be that naive. It's clearly done on purpose. How many times does the same thing need to happen before an 'accident' is no longer an accident. Stop covering for the IDF, how many war crimes is enough to stop believing their lies.
Killings of aid seekers ‘preventable’
Shaina Low, communications adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council, says the ongoing killings of aid seekers in Gaza represent a breakdown in communication between aid groups and Israeli authorities.
“It’s a clear sign that the deconfliction system, in which humanitarian agencies and the UN notify and correspond with Israel … is completely failing,” she told Al Jazeera, adding that this system is meant to allow aid agencies to inform Israel of routes they will take to ensure they aren’t targeted.
“This is something that is preventable and shouldn’t be happening,” she said.
It's not a breakdown in communications, firing on crowds is a war crime with or without 'communications'
Timeline: Israeli attacks on aid seekers and convoy
March 14: More than a dozen people killed and over 100 injured after Israeli forces opened fire on aid seekers in Gaza City.
March 3: At least nine people were killed in an Israeli strike on an aid distribution truck in Deir el-Balah.
February 29: At least 112 Palestinians were killed and hundreds wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on people waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City.
February 26: Ten people were reportedly killed when Israeli forces shelled and fired on a crowd waiting for food aid trucks in Gaza City.
January 25: An Israeli attack killed at least 20 people waiting for humanitarian assistance in Gaza City.
December 29: Israeli soldiers fired on an aid convoy as it returned from northern Gaza along a route designated as safe by the Israeli army.
Israel pins blame on ‘armed Palestinians’, truck drivers for aid seeker deaths
The Israeli military, citing a preliminary internal review, has claimed its forces are not responsible for the deadly attack on Palestinian aid seekers in northern Gaza that killed at least 20 people and wounded 120 others.
Instead, it said, unspecified “armed Palestinians” were responsible for the violence. Those gunmen, it said, opened fire at Kuwait Roundabout on Thursday as crowds of civilians gathered there ahead of an expected aid convoy. Numerous Palestinians were also “run over by trucks” during the incident, the military said.
Witnesses and an Al Jazeera correspondent reported that Israeli forces did fire live ammunition at the crowd of aid seekers, including from tanks and a helicopter. It would be the seventh time Israeli forces attacked aid seekers or aid convoys during the Gaza war, in attacks that have killed more than 160 people.
7 times that we know of... Exactly the reason why Israel targets journalists, to be able to spread enough 'doubt' which Fox news and others will gladly repeat.
Palestinians prevented from recovering bodies at Kuwait Roundabout
The Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City is becoming notorious as a “death trap” for those seeking humanitarian aid. People are still going there because this is the area where the trucks deliver humanitarian aid and they are desperate for flour and other much needed supplies.
Israeli tanks fired at the aid seekers indiscriminately, and the majority of the casualties are still on the road, but the presence of Israeli tanks makes it very difficult to recover the bodies. It has been hours since the attack happened, and wounded people have been there bleeding to death and most likely have died by now.
Aid seekers targeted by Israel unable to get care at al-Shifa Hospital
Some of the people injured at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City have arrived at al-Shifa Hospital, a nonoperational health facility, where they are trying their best amid a shortage of staff and extreme lack of medical supplies.
People were waiting to collect aid when they were shot at by Israeli tanks. This is the second time people were shot at at this roundabout. The Open Arms aid ship can be seen approaching Gaza in the distance, but like airdropped aid, this is a drop in the ocean.
