The Health Ministry of Hamas spoke in the early hours of the morning about at least twenty dead and over a hundred wounded from “Israeli fire” against a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

“Israeli occupation forces targeted a gathering of civilians waiting for humanitarian aid” at a roundabout in Gaza City and “the toll of casualties treated at Al Shifa Hospital was revised upwards to 20 dead and 155 wounded,” the ministry said. , which earlier announced that the dead were 14.

“Direct fire by the occupation forces against people who were gathered at the ‘Kuwait’ roundabout and were waiting for the arrival of food trucks,” said Dr. Mohamed Gurab, director of the emergency department at this hospital, the largest in the northern Strip, to AFP. Gaza.

An AFP colleague at the scene saw bodies and many wounded by bullets.

The Israeli denied that his forces opened fire on a crowd waiting for help and added that he was “analyzing” the “incident”.

In late February, some 120 Palestinians died, according to Hamas’ health ministry, when aid distribution turned into a nightmare also in the northern Gaza Strip.

The UN fears widespread famine in the Palestinian enclave under Israeli siege, especially in the hard-to-reach north, home to an estimated 300,000 people.

Israel’s military denies opening fire on Palestinian civilians who were waiting for help

The Israeli army denied in the early hours of today that its forces opened fire on a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.

“The information in the press that Israeli forces attacked dozens of Gazans at an aid distribution point is wrong,” the Israeli army said in a terse statement, assuring that it was “analyzing” this “incident” with “seriousness.”