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Israel ‘lured’ and killed 102 aid seekers in 8 days: Gaza media office
Gaza’s Government Media Office accuses Israel of “a horrific, intentionally repeated crime”, saying it has been luring starving Palestinians to its US-backed aid distribution centres and then opening fire on them.
It said today’s death toll – 27 – brought the number of aid seekers killed at aid sites in the Rafah governorate and the so-called Netzarim Corridor since the Gaza Aid Foundation started operating in the enclave on May 27 to 102, with 490 others injured.
“The so-called ‘aid’ distribution centres, which are located in exposed and dangerous red zones under the control of the occupation army, have turned into mass bloodbaths, luring starving civilians to them as a result of the crippling famine and the tightening siege,” the statement published on Telegram said.
“They are then deliberately and coldly shot, in a scene that epitomises the malice of the project and exposes its true objectives,” it added.
The Media Office called on “the United Nations, its Security Council and human rights organisations to assume their moral and legal responsibilities, take immediate action, and exert pressure using all available means to open official crossings without interference or conditions from the occupation”.
Mourners stand near the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli fire near a distribution site in Rafah, on June 3
Gaza’s Nasser Hospital faces surge in wounded patients, official appeals for blood donations
Marwan al-Hams, the director of field hospitals at Gaza’s Health Ministry, has spoken to Al Jazeera about the latest healthcare situation in the war-ravaged coastal enclave. Here is a summary of his translated comments:
- Nasser Medical Complex [in southern Gaza] cannot handle the influx of dozens of injured people.
- All of the wounded who arrived at Nasser Hospital had upper body injuries.
- We call on citizens to donate blood to treat the large number of injured people.
A Palestinian man and children, who were injured in Israeli strikes on displacement tents in Khan Younis, get first aid at the Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on June 3
Nasser Hospital patients ‘face certain death’ due to Israeli evacuation orders: Ministry
We have reported earlier that Israel on Monday ordered Palestinians in several areas of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis to immediately flee, warning that it “will operate with great force”. Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel “is deliberately undermining and stifling the health system through evacuations of areas housing hospitals and healthcare centres”.
“The recent evacuations in Khan Yunis Governorate pose a direct threat to putting the Nasser Medical Complex out of service,” the ministry said on Telegram. It said the Nasser Medical Complex is the only hospital in the southern Gaza Strip that offers specialised services that are threatened with disruption.
“Dozens of patients and wounded are in intensive care, operating rooms, and emergency rooms, as well as children in nursery wards, facing certain death if the complex is out of service,” the ministry added.
People flee Khan Younis after Israeli army issues forced displacement orders
