About twenty people was killed by the fire of the Israeli army while waiting in a center for the distribution of aid in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip. Hamas sources mentioned by the Times of Israel say it. In the last two days in Rafah at least thirty people have been killed while waiting to receive food in a recently open center.
The general manager of the Nasser hospital in Khan Youunis said that 24 people were killed and 37 injuries “following the fire open by the Israeli forces on the crowd of civilians” waiting for aid to Rafah. The BBC reports it. He says they all arrived in the hospital, most of the firearm wounds.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the body supported by the United States and Israel responsible for the distribution of aid, instead denies that the shooting took place in its structure. “The distribution of aid this morning in Rafah took place without accidents,” he says in a note almost three hours after the opening of the site, where, he says, “21 food trucks for a total of 20,160 boxes were delivered”.
«Although the distribution of aid took place today and without accidents at our site, we know that The IDF are investigating to check if several civilians were injured after passing the safe corridor designated and having entered a closed military area», Says Ghf” it was an area well outside our safe distribution site and our operating area. We recognize the difficult nature of the situation and we recommend to all civilians to remain in the safe corridor when they go to our distribution sites ».
Over the past eight days, Ghf claims to have distributed 7 million meals in three distribution sites in the southern and central part of Gaza. But the classification of meals is based on boxes of dry food products that still need to cook equipment or community kitchens, very limited throughout the strip after almost 20 months of devastating conflict.