Waiting for aid…. Israel fires again on hungry people in Gaza
While the scenes of the Nabulsi Roundabout tragedy are still fresh in the minds of thousands of Palestinians and millions around the world, when a few days ago Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian civilians who were waiting for relief trucks to obtain food, the incident appears to have been repeated.
The Israeli army opened fire on displaced people waiting for humanitarian aid to arrive at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, north of the Gaza Strip, on Monday evening, according to what the government media office in Gaza reported.
Dozens of civilians were waiting at the Kuwait Roundabout on Salah al-Din Street to get flour and food aid, but they were surprised by gunfire.
The specter of famine
The Hamas’s media office held the US administration and the international community fully responsible for the worsening humanitarian situation and the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, in light of the high number of deaths resulting from hunger, malnutrition and dehydration.
Office also called for “an end to the genocidal war and the entry of 1,000 trucks of aid to all governorates, especially the northern Gaza Strip.”
This came after a similar incident occurred at the Nabulsi roundabout, southwest of Gaza City, which led to the death of approximately 118 people and the injury of approximately 750 people.
While Israel justified “the incident by residents stampeding and trucks running over a number of those who attacked it in order to obtain aid and loot food,” according to its claim.
However, this tragedy received widespread international criticism, emphasizing the need to bring more relief trucks into the besieged sector, which is threatened by the specter of famine, and to protect civilians.
The UN Security Council urged Israel to facilitate immediate access of adequate humanitarian aid to civilians throughout the Strip.
He also expressed his deep concern last Sunday about the 2.2 million people of Gaza facing food insecurity due to the war.
On February 29 th the process of distributing humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip turned into a tragedy that led to the death of more than 100 people in light of conflicting statements and a widespread wave of condemnation from Western and Arab countries, which repeated the call for an immediate ceasefire, and some of which demanded an international investigation.
Hundreds of people rushed to a group of about 30 trucks carrying aid, at dawn on Thursday. The Palestinians said that nearby Israeli forces opened fire on the crowds, while the Israeli army said that a review that collected information from commanders and forces in the field concluded that no strike was directed against the aid convoy.
Israel said, “Most of the Palestinians were killed or injured as a result of the stampede.”
He added, “After the warning shots were fired to disperse the stampede, and after our forces began to retreat, a number of saboteurs approached our forces and posed a direct threat to them. According to the initial review, the soldiers responded toward several individuals.”
On the other hand, the Hamas Ministry of Health reported that Israeli army fire killed more than 100 people as they gathered to obtain aid in the besieged northern Gaza Strip.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra indicated in a statement on Saturday that the death toll from the Al-Rashid Street incident had risen to 118 deaths and 760 injuries.
