Israeli Army mentioned ‘warning shots to avoid an immediate threat that weighed on him’, in the face of the agglomeration of ‘thousands’ of people, but denied the balance of victims made by the Civil Defense
Israeli shots in This Sunday (20), they left at least 73 Palestinians killed near humanitarian aid distribution centers in the north and southwest of Palestinian territory devastated by war. The spokesman for this first aid organization, Mahmoud Bassal, which 67 people died as a result of “occupation shots [] Aimed at people who expected help in the Zikim region, northwest of the city of Gaza. ”In the south, this organization recorded six other people killed on Sunday by Israeli forces near a Northwest Rafah aid distribution center, where dozens of people had died the day before.
The World Food Program (PMA) has stated that one of its 25 truck caravans with food help entered this Sunday morning in the north of the Gaza Strip and “saw huge crowds of hungry civilians who received shots.” Israeli army mentioned “warning shots to avoid an immediate threat that weighed on it,” in the face of the crowd of “thousands” of people. The army denied the balance made by the Civil Defense. The approximately two million Palestinians haraed by Israel in Gaza are on the verge of inanition after more than 21 months of conflict, triggered by an attack by the Palestinian Islamist Movement Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.
The Gaza Civil Defense said it found an increase in the number of deaths of babies caused by “hunger and severe malnutrition,” and reported at least three children’s deaths last week. Pope Leo XIV condemned on Sunday the “barbarism” of the war in Gaza and called for the end of the “indiscriminate use of force” at the end of the Angelus prayer.
*With information from AFP
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