At Israeli shooting near the center to distribute humanitarian aid in the south of the Gaza Strip, six Palestinians died and several others suffered injuries. The Office of the Palestinian Civil Defense announced on Saturday, TASR writes according to the BBC.
The Office’s spokesman claims that people have gathered to pick up food aid when fire started. According to the eyewitness, the Israelis began to shoot when people tried to approach the aid expenditure. The Israeli army declared that it fired warning shots at the suspects who approached the army in a “terrible way”.
The BBC recalls that dozens of Palestinians died this week, and hundreds were injured as they sought to get to the center of help distribution.
Israel claims to warn people
The United States and Israel, supported by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is responsible for the distribution of humanitarian aid, announced on Friday the temporary closure of all its centers in the Palestinian enclave. She appealed to security reasons.
People gather almost every day near the Israeli military zone they have to go to get to the place of humanitarian help. The Israeli army said in its statement that it announced the inhabitants of the Gaza band that the area was an active combat zone at night.
The GHF claims that on Saturday she was unable to distribute food due to direct threats by the Palestinian militant Hamas movement, against which Israel is a war. The group denied this accusation.
The Foundation is criticized
This foundation is the target of the accused that it helps Israel to fulfill its war targets, does not take sufficient consideration for the Palestinians, bypasses the UN and does not follow humanitarian principles. Her functioning was also accompanied by chaos when hundreds of Palestinians invaded one of its centers in Rafah in the south of Gaza. The Israeli Government defends the Foundation by claiming that its aim is to prevent Hamas from seizing humanitarian supplies for its own purposes.
The Hamas -controlled Ministry of Health reported on Saturday that the Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip have claimed dozens of victims last day. DPA said the victims are at least 60, but the US AP claims that at least 95 people died in Israeli attacks. The Israeli army announced on Saturday that the leader of the Mujahid Brigades Assad Abu Sharia died in an attack in Gaza.
