More Palestinians wounded at Gaza aid point
Our correspondent in Gaza reports that several people were wounded by Israeli army gunfire in the central Strip as they tried to reach an aid distribution point set up by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Chaos and a series of violent attacks on starving aid seekers in Gaza over the past week have led to numerous deaths and growing international condemnation of Israel’s aid scheme.
20 Palestinians wounded while trying to reach aid centre
Sources at Gaza hospitals tell Al Jazeera that 20 people have been hit by Israeli fire while trying to reach an aid distribution point set up by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The distribution site, located near Israel’s Netzarim Corridor bisecting the Palestinian enclave, is the third to have been set up, after two distribution points were established in the southern city of Rafah.
‘Isn’t it enough that we’re deprived of food and drink?’
Palestinians fleeing Israel’s latest forced displacement orders, near the Daraj neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City, are distraught at having to find refuge where there isn’t any. “Where are we supposed to go if we’re forced to evacuate this school? There are 5,000 displaced people here – where will they go?” Palestinian resident Salameh Abu al-Bayad told Al Jazeera.
“Isn’t it enough that we’re deprived of food and drink? Now they want us to be out on the streets. What can I say? My only refuge is God.”
Al-Bayad said his situation is a “tragedy”, adding: “We’ve suffered so much. They talk about the Nakba of 1948, but this – this is the real Nakba.” For Mohammad Abu al-Atta, death is better than being displaced again, he said. “There’s no safe place at all. Where can we go?” al-Atta told Al Jazeera.
“We’re better off dying here than being displaced again, because death is more merciful than that. There’s bombing everywhere and the [Israelis] won’t let us live in peace.”
A girl collects belongings at the site of an overnight Israeli strike in Jabalia, in the central Gaza Strip
