Civil protection in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that Israeli Armed Forces killed more than 50 people who had gathered near a food distribution center in Han Junisin the southern part of the Palestinian enclave.
According to a representative of the immediate aid service, Mahmoud Basalat least 53 people were killed and more than 200 were injured by the fire against thousands of people who wanted to arrive at a distribution center.
“Israeli drones opened fire on a crowd. A few minutes later, battle tanks threw a lot of shells »he told the French agency.
🚨 ”Walking Through Showers of Bullets, Shells, and Missiles Fired by The Israeli Army Just to Earn a Living”
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Given the restrictions on the media in the Gaza Strip and the inability to access the field, the AFP says it is unable to independently verify the reports announced by Civil Protection.
When the agency contacted him, Israel’s army said that ‘Consider’ the event, stating that it was identified “concentration” people close to a help distribution truck that had ‘Hit’ in “Han Juni Sector” and “Near (Israeli) soldiers who were attempting in the zone.”
According to the Hamas Government Ministry of Health, which denounced the ‘Gripping Slaughter’, at least ’51 Witnesses and over 200 injured’ were taken to the hospital Nasser of Han Junis. According to the same source there were still ‘Dozens of witnesses lying on the ground’ and others that “They were cut by shells that were found directly against civilians.”
According to Reuters News Agency, cited by doctors in the pocket, the dead at the incident were at least 59 and the injured 221.
Injury carriers reported that another 14 people were killed by Israeli fire and air raids on the densely populated pocket. The total report yesterday was at least 73 dead, according to Reuters sources.
In the Han Juni region, the Mohammed Abu Amenan eyewitness, said they were targeted ‘Ordinary people, unarmed’who just wanted to go to get “Bread and flour for their children.”
InseSe of Carrying Aid,
Palestinians Carry Their Killed Brothers in Gaza.
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Before launching the attack on Iran on June 13, the Israeli army intensified its operations in the Gaza Strip in mid -May, with publicly declared targets with publicly declared goals to release the remaining hostages, to understand the ‘Control’ of the small area between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean, as well as destroying Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that took power in the pocket in 2007.
The Israeli authorities imposed a total blockade on the area on March 2, which was partially relaxed in late May, resulting in huge shortages of food, medicines and other essentials.
The Gaza (GHF), backed by the US and Israeli governments, began distributing food on May 27, but the operation of its enlightened centers was marked by repeated chaotic and multiplex episodes.
GHF assured yesterday that his teams distributed 2 million meals ‘Without the slightest happening’ and a total of 28 million from the start of its action.
At the same time yesterday workers were trying to repair the hospital Al Ahli, in the Gaza Stripone of the few that continue to operate in part in the northern part of the Thylakos. They removed wreck piles to open space so that they could park ambulances.
In addition, the Palestinian Authority announced that internet access and landline network were cut in the central and southern part of the Gaza Strip due to an attack on Israel. This is the third time that telecommunications have been cut in the Gaza Strip within a week due to infrastructure damage.
This war was the unprecedented raid of Hamas’s military arm in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which 1,219 people died on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to AFP counting.
Of the 251 people who had been abducted that day, there are 54 left in the Gaza Strip, but 32 of them have been declared dead by the Israeli authorities.
At least 55,493 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have lost their lives on large -scale military retaliation operations since then in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest numbers by the Hamas Ministry of Health, which are reliable by the UN.
Source :Skai
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