The Israeli forces fired a fatal fire on 32 Palestinians trying to reach relief sites: Gaza officials star-news.press/wp
On Saturday, the Israeli forces opened fire towards crowds of Palestinians looking for food from the distribution centers run by a group of the United States and Israeli in southern Gaza, killing at least 32 people, according to witnesses and hospital officials.
The shooting took place near the centers run by the Gaza Humanitarian Corporation (GHF), which launched operations in May. The United States and Israel are seeking to replace the United Nations -led traditional aid system in Gaza, stressing that Hamas militants are out of supplies. The United Nations denies the claim.
While GHF says it has distributed millions of meals to the hungry Palestinians, health officials and local witnesses say that the Israeli army fire had killed hundreds of people trying to reach the centers. The four GHF sites in military -controlled areas.
The Israeli army, who is not at the locations but provides them with a distance, says it only shoots warnings if the crowds approach their forces. The army said on Saturday that it fired warning bullets near the city of Rafha in the far south of Gaza after a group of suspects approached the forces and ignored calls to keep a distance. He said that the accident occurred overnight when the distribution site was closed.
In a statement, GHF said that there were no incidents in or near its locations, and we added, “We have repeatedly warned us who seek aid to travel to our positions overnight and early morning hours.”
According to a new report by Amnesty International, the Gaza Humanitarian Corporation- a group backed by the United States and Israel that took over the distribution of aid in Gaza for more than a month- uses a military aid mechanism that enables Israel to use hunger as a weapon of war and cancel the genocide against the sponsors. Budour Hassan from Amnesty International says that those on the ground describe aid as a “horrific” endeavor.
Most of the deaths occurred on Saturday when the Palestinians were collected in the Tina area, about three kilometers from the GHF aid distribution center near the southern city of Khan Yunis.
Mahmoud Mukimar said that he was walking with the masses of people, most of whom were young, towards the axis. The forces opened warning footage, then opened the fire.
“The occupation opened fire randomly,” he said. He said that he saw at least three bodies without mobility on the ground and many of the injured are fleeing.
Akram Akir, another witness, said that the forces fired machine guns installed on tanks and drones. He said that the shooting occurred between 5 am and 6 am, and GHF called on people not to approach 6 am on Saturday, citing possible military activities.
United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres says that the US -backed aid process in Gaza is “inherently safe,” accusing the humanitarian basis in Gaza, which is to help the military and force displacement.
“They surrounded us and started shooting at us directly,” Akir said, adding that he saw many victims on the ground.
SANA Al -Jabri said that there was gunfire after the opening of the site, while people looking for aid erupted to run. “Is this food or death? Why? They don’t talk to us, only shoot us on us,” she said, and they showed her empty bag.
Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis said he had received 25 bodies. The hospital said that seven other people, including one woman, were killed in the Shakoush area, hundreds of meters north of another GHF center in Rafah. The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed the losses.
Dr. Mohamed Sukkar, head of the nursing department in Nasser, said that he had received 70 people. He told Associated Press that most people were shot in the head and chest.
“The situation is difficult and tragic,” he said, adding that the facility lacks medical supplies. Some of the wounded, including a child, were treated on the floor. One boy stood up with patience, carrying a person’s blood bag on a stretcher.
Meanwhile, Fares Awad, head of the ambulance and emergency service of the Ministry of Health in northern Gaza, said that two people were killed in Gaza City when an air strike hit a tent in one of the families displaced in the camp.
In the center of Gaza, Al -Woudi Hospital said that 12 people were killed in an air strike. The hospital and the Hamas Ministry of Interior said that Omar Aqa, a local police official, was killed. Two children, including an infant, and five women – were all relatives of the base reading – among the dead.
Al -Oda Hospital said that he also received two people who were killed by an Israeli blow to a group of people in Burij. Another blow to a house was killed in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza, according to ambulance and emergency service of the Ministry of Health. The service said that the strike that struck a vehicle in Tal Al -Hawa in northern Gaza was killed four.
The Israeli army had no comment on specific strikes, but he said that it achieved about 90 goals throughout Gaza during the past day, killing militants and targeting the “terrorist infrastructure” in northern Gaza and Gaza City.
The humanitarian crisis
Gaza is more than two million Palestinians in a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Distribution on GHF sites is often chaotic. Food boxes are stacked on the ground and the crowds rise to seize everything they can, according to the witnesses and videos released by GHF.
In the recently obtained AP videos, GHF contractors using tear gas and grenades to keep the crowds behind metal fences or forced them to differentiate. Gallery shots can be heard.
Hamas raised the 21 -month war when it stormed to southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 other hostages, according to the Israeli.
The Israeli military attack killed more than 58,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which says that the majority of the dead are women and children, and almost all Gaza residents have slipped due to the widespread destruction.
Israel and Hamas were holding a ceasefire in Qatar, but international brokers say there were no breakthroughs.
The Israeli settlers are said to burn the West Bank Church
In the occupied West Bank, the US ambassador to Israel visited Mike Hakapi, the Palestinian Christian village, Taybah, where residents say that the Israeli extremist settlers set fire to St. George’s Church on July 9.
Hakapi, an evangelical Christian, usually supported Israel, condemned the attack.
“To commit a act of action by desecrating a place that is supposed to be a place of worship – it is a terrorist act and it is a crime,” he said.
The West Bank has witnessed an increase in settlers’ violence since the war in Gaza began. The Palestinians say that the Israeli security forces did little to stop violence, and a few settlers have been punished.
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2025-07-19 18:54:00
