Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP)-Israeli forces killed four support seekers traveling on Sunday through a military area Gaza city – A region regularly used by Palestinians tried to reach the food distribution point, a hospital and witnesses said.
Deaths add to the growing tolls of the killed Palestinians demanding food, in the form of parts Gaiza Strip to harass Draught And Israel’s military ramp made a planned aggressive activity to seize its largest city in North Gaza.
Al-Awadh Hospital and two eyewitnesses told Associated Press that four Palestinians were killed when soldiers set fire to a mob, which was run in the Israeli-backed US contractor Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, in the Netzerim Corridor area. This was away from hundreds of meters (yards) from the site, the eyewitnesses said.
Mohammad Abed, the father of two of the bureauge refugee camp, said, “The gun bullet was indiscriminately,” when many people fell on the ground after shooting some people.
Among the crowd, another aid seeker Abed and Ayamad Syed said that when a group near the crowd pushed a distribution site before their scheduled inauguration, the soldiers set fire.
Syed said that he and others helped two people who were injured by gun bullet, one in his shoulder and legs in his leg.
The Israeli Army and GHF did not immediately respond to the requests of comments.
Malnutrition related deaths
Four deaths are the latest in areas where the United Nations convoys have been overwhelmed by robbers and desperate crowds, and where people have been shot dead while going to the sites run by GHF.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, over 2,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 13,500 were injured, demanding assistance with convoy routes on distribution points or by the United Nations and other support groups.
The ministry said on Sunday that at least 62,686 Palestinians have died in the war, in which the missing people have now been confirmed dead by the judicial committee of a special ministry.
It said that the number of deaths related to malnutrition increased from eight to 289 on Sunday. Deaths include a child, which leads to the death toll between children to 115 since the onset of the war between Israel and Hamas in 2023.
The Ministry of Health does not say how many of the people killed are fighters or citizens, but say that there are about half of women and children. It is part of the Hamas-Interactive Government and is part of employees by medical professionals. The United Nations and independent experts consider it to be the most reliable source of war casualties. Israel disputes its figures, but has not provided its own.
Integrated Food Safety Character Classification – World’s major rights over food crises – said on Friday That is a famine In the city of Gaza, the house of hundreds of Palestinians, and by the end of next month, could spread to the south to South al-Balah and Khan Unis.
Israel has denied hunger in Gaza, a report of “lies” promoted by Hamas has been called.
‘Non-stop blast’
In Jabalia, at a densely populated refugee camp to the north of Gaza city, the residents said they tolerated heavy explosions overnight. Israel’s army announced that it was intensifying its operations in the region and gathering thousands of reservoirs to take the city, saying that they were constantly living in fear.
In the part of the city of Gaza, where he and his family have given shelter since being displaced from a neighborhood on the southern bank of the city, Ossama Matter said he had seen the houses less than the rubble and surprised the neighborhood.
“They want it like Rafa,” he said, referring to a city in Southern Gaza, was first destroyed in the war. “There have been non-stop explosions and attacks in the past.”
Running from Jabalia to the west, school student Salim Daher said he saw that the robot had moved from the opposite direction of the troupes, planting explosives to the robot. As he set a platform for Israel’s push to seize the city, Daher said he feared that it was part of a big attempt to forcibly remove the Palestinians from the north.
The objective is clear, he said: “To destroy everything above the ground, and to force transfer.”
Hundreds of Palestinians of thousands of Palestinians who vacated the south before the invasion in Gaza city of Israel have indicated, which Israel says that there is still a Hamas stronghold. Many frequent dislocations are tired and unrelated that any field-protection, including the so-called human regions, provides security.
The military campaign can begin within days in an area that endangers the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens, who are sheltered above one area, Israel has attacked several times, but still believes that a network of militant tunnels has been undergone underground.
Hamas -led militants kidnapped 251 people and killed about 1,200 people, most of the citizens, in October 7, 2023, attack This triggered the war. Most hostages have been released in ceasefire or other deals, but live inside 50 Gaza, about 20 of them are considered alive by Israel.
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Maggi and Metz reported from Cairo and Jerusalem.
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Wafa Shurafa, Sammy Maggi and Sam Metz, Associated Press