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Gaza officials call aid sites ‘death traps’ amid rising casualties, missing civilians

Earlier today, Gaza’s Government Media Office said that at least 549 Palestinians have been killed trying to access aid since the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operating four weeks ago.

The attacks at the “death traps”, it said in a statement, have also caused 4,066 injuries, and led to 39 missing people among starving Palestinian civilians.

“The occupation is using food as a weapon of mass killing, turning what it claims to be ‘aid’ into a tool of extermination and domination,” Gaza’s Government Media Office added.

Palestinians rush to receive aid after trucks arrive in northern Gaza


Palestinians receive aid supplies after aid trucks enter through the Netzarim Corridor amid Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip



US State Department official Thomas Pigott on Thursday stopped to a new low when he refused to criticise the IDF for routinely firing at the starving population of Gaza, leaving scores of them dead everyday. Instead, he blamed the Palestinian group Hamas even for the action of the IDF. Gaza has been under siege since the beginning of March at the behest of an order from Benjamin Netanyahu, which is current wanted by the International Criminal Court.