Israel-Hamas war, Gaza genocide

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Israeli forces kill 26 people in Gaza since dawn

At least 26 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today, Gaza’s Ministry of Health says.

Israeli military says it did not directly shoot at aid distribution crowd

The Israeli army says its soldiers did not direct gunfire towards an aid distribution centre after thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed it while seeking long-blockaded food.

Soldiers fired “warning shots” in the air to disperse the rowdy crowd outside the aid site in southern Gaza’s Rafah area, the military said.

In a statement, it said control over the chaotic situation has been established with aid distribution to continue as planned. The comments could not be independently verified.

Desperation for food among Palestinians overcame concern about biometric and other checks Israel said it would employ at the Israel-US-backed centre.

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Gaza media office denies aid obstruction, says GHF spreading false claims

Gaza’s Government Media Office has rejected allegations by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) that Palestinian fighters blocked public access to its aid sites. In a lengthy statement, it called the claims “a blatant fabrication” and the GHF’s efforts “a dangerous deviation from humanitarian neutrality”.

It blamed the chaos and delays in aid distribution on the new foundation’s mismanagement. The distribution sites are actually “segregated buffer zones” serving Israel’s military agenda, it added.

“GHF … has lost any pretense of credibility or neutrality by parroting and adopting the occupation’s narrative,” the statement said. “It thus bears moral and legal responsibility for covering up the ongoing crime of genocide being committed against over 2.4 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip through the complete blockade of food, medicine, water, and fuel.”

The media office also accused the foundation of seizing aid trucks from a humanitarian organisation and diverting them – with Israeli army protection – to its own distribution sites in buffer zones.

UN says its Gaza aid system was ‘not perfect, but it worked’

While the United Nations’ system of delivering aid in Gaza was not perfect, “it worked and we saw how it worked during the ceasefire,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference.

Dujarric said the Israeli-US aid initiative, which descended into chaos earlier today, did not match the UN’s principles.

“Humanitarian aid needs to be distributed in a way that is safe under principles of independence, impartiality in the way we’ve always done it,” he said.

We saw the plan that they they’ve published and that they presented to us. and it is not done with the parameters that we feel are match our principles, which we apply across the board, from Gaza to Sudan to Myanmar, to anywhere you want to talk about.”