Israeli Troops Kill 32 People Seeking Food At U.S.-Backed Distribution Hubs, Gaza Officials Say

DEIR Al Balah, Gaza Strip (AP)- Israeli troops opened fire on the crowd of Palestinians looking for food from the distribution centers carried out by a US and Israeli group on Saturday. Southern GazaAccording to witnesses and hospital officials, kill at least 32 people.

Filming, Gaza Humanitarian FoundationHe launched operations in May. The United States and Israel are trying to replace the traditional UN aid distribution system in Gaza and argues that Hamas militants have siphon the materials. The UN rejects the claim.

While the GHF says that hungry Palestinians distribute millions of food, local health authorities and witnesses say that the Israeli army killed hundreds of people while trying to reach the centers of the fire. Four areas of GHF are in military controlled regions.

The Israeli army says that the army, which protects them from a distance, not only in places, says that if the crowds get too close to their powers, they fire their warning shots. On Saturday, the Ordu said that after a group of suspects approached the troops and ignoring the calls to protect their distances, he made warnings near the South City of Gaza. The incident said it occurred overnight when the distribution zone was closed.

In a statement, GHF, there is no event on the sites or near the site, “Aid, help seekers overnight and early in the morning we warned that not to travel to our sites,” he said.

Most of the deaths on Saturday were about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the GHF aid distribution center near the city of Southern Khan Khan Younis in the Teina region.

Mahmoud Mokeimar said mostly walking towards the belly with young men. The soldiers made warning shots, then opened fire.

“The occupation opened a random fire to us,” he said. He said that he had seen at least three inactive bodies on the ground and that many wounded people fled.

Akram Aker, another witness, said that the troops fired machine guns mounted on tanks and drones. Fire, GHF took place between 05: 00-16: 00 hours, referring to potential military activities, calling not to approach before 6 am on Saturday.

“They besieged us and started to shoot directly at us, Ak said. He said he saw many losses on the ground.

Sanaa Al-Jaberi said that people looking for help after the site started to run, he said. “Is this food or death? Why? They’re not talking to us, they just hit us,” he said and showed his empty bag.

Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said he had taken 25 bodies. The hospital said that seven people, including a woman, were killed in the Shakoush region, another GHF center in Rafah in the north of hundreds of meters (yard). The Gaza Ministry of Health confirmed the passage.

President of the Nursing Department of Nasser Mohamed Saker said he had received 70 wounded people. He told Associated Press that most people were hit by head and chest.

“The situation is difficult and tragic,” he said, adding that the facility lacks medical materials. Some of the wounded, including a child, were treated on the ground. A child stood patiently, holding a blood bag for someone on a stretcher.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health Ambulance and Emergency Service in Northern Gaza, Fares Awad, said that two people were killed in Gaza city when a tent hit a tent in a camp with an air strike.

In the center of Gaza, 12 people were killed in an AWDA hospital air strike. The Ministry of Interior, led by the Hospital and Hamas, said that a local police official Omar Aqel was killed. One baby and five women – all relatives of Aqel – including two children were among the dead.

Al-Awda Hospital said that two people who were killed in an Israeli strike were taken to a group of people in Bureij. According to the ambulance and emergency service of the Ministry of Health, another strike in a house in the Gaza City neighborhood killed at least four strikes. The Service said he had killed four times a strike in Tal Al-Hawa in Northern Gaza.

Israel’s army had no interpretation of certain strikes, but the last day he had hit about 90 targets throughout Gaza and killed militants and aimed at the Northern Gaza and Gaza City “terror infrastructure”.

Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians disaster human crisis. The distribution in GHF fields is usually chaotic. According to witnesses and videos published by GHF, food boxes collapse on the ground and crowds increase to get their best.

In the videos obtained Recently, GHF contractors by the AP have been seen using tear gas and stunning grenades to keep the crowds behind metal fences or forcing them to disintegrate. Gunfire can be heard.

When Hamas entered Southern Israel on October 7, 2023, he triggered the 21 -month war, killed 1,200 people and took 251 people hostage.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel’s military attack killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, displaced almost all of Gaza, and caused widespread destruction. The ministry does not say how many militants are among the dead, but more than half says that women and children are.

The Ministry is part of the Hamas government, but the UN and other international organizations see it as the most reliable data source related to losses.

Israel and Hamas are organizing cease -fire talks in Qatar, but international mediators say there is no breakthrough.

In the occupied West Bank, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, the pro -excessive Israeli settlers of the inhabitants on July 9 He visited the Palestinian Christian Village, where he said he had opened fire at the George Church.

Huckabee, a Protestant Christian, who normally supports Israel, condemned the attack.

“To make a place of holiness by celebrating a place of worship – it is a terrorist act and this is a crime,” he said.

The West Bank has experienced an increase in the severity of the settlement since the war in Gaza began. Palestinians say that Israeli security forces have done very little to stop violence and that few settlers have been punished.

Magdy reported from Cairo.