More than a hundred Palestinians killed during an operation to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza

More than one hundred Palestinians died this Thursday in the Gaza Strip in the midst of an operation provide humanitarian aid. Hamas accuses Israel of attack civilians who, desperate, were looking for food, while the IDF assures that the victims were “pushed, trampled and run over by trucks”.

So far, and as reported by the spokesperson of the Hamas Ministry of Health, Ashraf Al Qudra, they are 104 people died and 760 were injured.

The tragic operation was carried out by a dozen trucks loaded with humanitarian aid captured by a droneshowing thousands of Palestinians running in search of food.

That sequence, which went viral on social media shortly after it was released, shows thousands of people running from one side to the other, advancing towards the trucks. A few minutes later, also on social networks, photos of the dead Palestinians and cross versions on how they died.

The shocking video was released by IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee. “Aerial scenes show the course of the campaign to bring humanitarian aid to the northern Gaza Strip and document how Palestinian mobs intercepted trucks and looted them, causing dozens of deaths due to severe overcrowding and trampling,” the spokesperson said. Israeli forces.

Hamas denounces it The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked the Palestinians. Sources in that country confirmed that their soldiers felt “threatened” and fired at the Palestinians, but denied any responsibility.

According to a doctor at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, the soldiers They shot “thousands of citizens” who ran towards the aid trucks.

“The death toll from the Al Rashid Street massacre now stands at 104 dead and 760 injured,” Hamas Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al Qudra said in a statement.

Several witnesses told the AFP news agency they saw thousands of people running towards humanitarian aid trucks arriving at a roundabout in the western part of Gaza city.

For its part, in a brief statement, the IDF noted that “this morning, humanitarian aid trucks entered northern Gaza, residents surrounded the trucks and looted the supplies being delivered.”

“Dozens of Gazans have been killed and injured as a result of being pushed, trampled and run over by trucks,” they noted.

The war unleashed after Hamas’ brutal terrorist attack on Israel on October 7 has already begun the deadliest of the five conflicts between Israel and the Islamist movementwho took power in Gaza in 2007.

The mediating countries say they are waiting a respite before the start of Ramadanthe Muslim month of fasting which begins on the night between 10 and 11 March, but so far there has been no concrete progress.

“The death toll in Gaza has exceeded 30,000, the vast majority of them women and children. More than 70,000 Palestinians have been injured. This terrible violence and suffering must end. Ceasefire”, launched the director general of the World Health Organization. healthcare. Greetings, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the X social network.