“In Gaza, the distribution of aid has become a deadly trap. Numerous victims, including dozens of injured and dead among the hungry civilian population, occurred because of this morning’s shooting, according to reports of international doctors on the ground.” This is the complaint that General Commissioner of the United Nations Agency for Refugees in Palestine (UNRWA), after knowing that at least 31 people have died and around 200 have been injured this Sunday morning in a new attack against the civilian population.
Attributed to the Israeli army, which rejects the accusation, the event has occurred in Rafah, in the south of the enclave, near one of the distribution points of the (GHF), backed by Israel and the United States, according to a statement from the Islamist group Hamás. Israel has denied its involvement and has held Hamas responsible for the shots.
In addition, another person has died and 32 more have suffered injuries in another aid distribution center on the Wadi Gaza bridge, the militia added in its report. In total, according to their numbers, in six days from the chaotic beginning of the distribution of help by the UN Foundation, 49 people who were going to look for food ended up losing their lives and more than 300 were injured.
The International Red Cross Committee in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories that in the early hour of June 1, its campaign hospital in Rafah, with capacity for 60 beds, “received a massive influx of 179 injured, including women and children.” And details: “The majority had gunshot wounds or shrapnel; 21 patients were declared dead upon arrival.”
According to the NGO story, “all the patients” that he has attended in this episode declared that they were attacked “trying to reach a help distribution point.” “This is the greatest number of firearm injured in a single incident from the installation of the campaign hospital for more than a year,” clarifies the CICR report. “It far exceeded the hospital’s ability.”
Thousands of Gazatis in search of food moved in the early morning to Rafah when the troops opened fire. It was 3.00, local time, and they were one kilometer from the delivery point managed by US contractors and the GHF, witnesses of the events cited by the local press have described.
The teams of doctors without borders (MSF) at the Nasser hospital, in Jan Yunis, attended this Sunday to patients with serious injuries. “They had visible gunshot wounds and blood soaked clothes,” says Nour Alsaqa, head of communications of the NGO. “They seemed destroyed and distressed after trying to get food for their children, returning injured and empty -handed.”
According to a testimony collected by MSF, Mansour Sami Abdi, father of four children, described chaos: “People fought for five pallets. They told us that we had food and then fired from all sides. I ran 200 meters before realizing that they had shot me. This is not help. It is a lie. Is it supposed to go looking for food for our children and die?”
For its part, the GHF has assured since in the morning that it “is false” that there have been incidents at the cast points. The Israeli army announced, however, that it would investigate the facts. In the afternoon he has already published his conclusions: “The accusations that the Israel Defense Forces (FDI) fired against Gaza residents in the area of the humanitarian aid distribution center in the Gaza Strip are false.” The Army has urged the media to be “cautious with the information published by the terrorist organization,” in reference to Hamas.
The military statement says that the Israeli army is “cooperating with the American civil organization and international aid organizations to facilitate distribution” preventing help from falling into Hamas. The FDI accuses the Islamist militia of “doing everything possible to undermine” their efforts in food cast.
Subsequently, Oren Marmorstein, spokesman for the Israel Foreign Ministry, has published a message on her X account by holding the Palestinian militia for the shots and offering as shows a video without date on which a hooded person is seen pointing with a long weapon towards others, but which could not be verified independently. “Look at it with your own eyes: Hamas shoots against civilians in Gaza to prevent them from reaching the help distribution points,” said the spokesman. Hamas has rejected the authenticity of the video.
An Israeli army source has recognized, on condition of anonymity, which did launch “warning shots” against Gazatis at a distance of a kilometer from the food distribution point in Rafah, reports the EFE agency. This source denied, however, that it was the same event in which about thirty Palestinians were killed.
The Gaza’s distribution system that allows Israel is “humiliating”, in the words of Lazzarini. The entire population in Gaza, 2.1 million people, are in, in addition to lacking adequate medical assistance, drinking water and refuge due to the lack of basic supplies. For more than two months, Israel fully blocked the entrance of any input. On May 18, the Benjamín Netanyahu government. Since then, just a hundred of them enter every day, well below the 600 that the UN estimates that they are needed daily to meet basic needs.
The UN has denounced in recent days that meager amount of help is left. It does so delaying the expedition of permits and the proposition of “inappropriate routes” that do not guarantee the safety of operations.
The impediments to bringing large -scale assistance to the population make the distribution points of the GHF into practically the only ones in which the hungry population can obtain food boxes. However, the location of these forces up to a practically powdered area due to the strong bombings of the Israeli army.
Alarms in Israel
On the day the Jewish population celebrates the Shavuot party, this Sunday, commemorating the delivery of the Torah on Mount Sinai, the alarms have sounded throughout Israel when the army has reported that a missile had been released since Yemen.
Meanwhile, the bombings have continued on the strip – where almost 54,500 people have already died since the beginning of the Israeli military invasion – and negotiations to reach a high fire continue. Israel and Hamas blame each other for the failure of the last attempt of Arab and American mediation to ensure a 60 -day truce that would include the release of 18 live Israeli hostages and another 10 dead of the 59 that are retained by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli prisons, and the necessary entry of help.
