New shock in global public opinion has caused yesterday blow against civilians Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, where hundreds of people had gathered and were waiting for her humanitarian aid so that they can survive.

The Hamas Health Ministry spoke in the early hours of the morning for at least twenty dead and over a hundred wounded by “Israeli fire”, which Israel denies
“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.

For “direct fire by the occupation forces on people gathered at the ‘Kuwait’ roundabout awaiting the arrival of food trucks” Dr. Mohammed Gurab, director of the emergency department at this hospital, the largest in the northern Gaza Strip, told AFP.

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

The Israeli starter denied that he opened fire on the crowd and added that he was “analyzing” the “incident”.

“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.”

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.

Ground operation in Rafah will happen, Netanyahu says

In Rafah, which is constantly bombarded by the Israeli army, some 1.5 million forcibly displaced Palestinians have taken refuge, in other words the majority of the enclave’s population. Aid organizations are increasingly warning against a large-scale ground operation there, as it would cause large numbers of civilian casualties.

“The army will conduct a ground operation in Rafah, a city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, on the closed border of the Palestinian enclave with Egypt, despite international concerns and warnings,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated yesterday Thursday.

There is “international pressure to prevent us from entering Rafah and finish the job,” Benjamin Netanyahu told armed forces men, according to his services.

“We’ll get into Rafa,” he assured. “We will complete the elimination of Hamas battalions. We will restore security and bring total victory to the people of Israel and the state of Israel.”

Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said civilians in Rafah would be moved elsewhere in coordination with international actors, according to the Times of Israel digital newspaper. He spoke of creating “humanitarian islands” in the central part of the enclave. He did not specify where exactly they were planned to be taken, nor when, nor did he give a timetable for the planned attack on the city.