AGI – It has evolved into one Massacre in Palestinian attack on humanitarian aid convoy that he had achieved Gaza City. There was a crush and a shootout with Israeli forces killed at least 104 people According to Palestinian health sources, over 700 people were injured. The Israelis confirmed that troops had fired on the crowd because they believed it was a “threat.” A witness told AFP that the violence broke out as thousands of people desperately searched for food They rushed toward the relief trucks at the western roundabout in Nabuls. “The trucks loaded with relief supplies got too close to some army tanks that were in the area and the crowd, thousands of people, stormed the trucks,” the witness said, “and Soldiers fired into the crowd because people got too close to the tanks.“The Israeli military initially claimed that “as humanitarian aid trucks entered the northern Gaza Strip, Gaza residents surrounded the trucks and looted the delivered aid.”
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The dead and wounded were taken to the few functioning hospitals in Gaza. “The medical teams are unable to deal with the extent and nature of the injuries arriving at the Al-Shifa medical complex,” it said in a statement. Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra pointed the finger at “occupation forces who targeted a gathering of citizens.” Gaza is facing an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation almost five months after the war began. The United Nations estimates that the vast majority of Gaza's 2.4 million people are at risk of starvation, particularly in the north, where destruction, fighting and looting make the delivery of aid nearly impossible. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), just over 2,300 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip in February, about 50% fewer than in January.
Extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council
More than 25,000 Palestinian women and children They were killed in the Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip The Pentagon chief said there had been control of the Gaza Strip since the war began on October 7 Lloyd Austin. “It's more than 25,000,” he told a parliamentary committee in response to a question about the number of women and children killed in the war launched by Israel in retaliation for the Hamas attack.
The UN Security Council will meet behind closed doors at 11:15 p.m. Italian time this evening after around a hundred people died during a food distribution in Gaza, according to the council's updated program. Diplomatic sources said the meeting was requested by Algeria.
The PNA denounces an accomplice of “international silence”.
The NPCwhich governs small areas in the occupied West Bank, also denounced a complicit “international silence.” “Crimes of genocide unprecedented in modern history” and called for immediate intervention to end the war. The crosshairs are “particularly the US government, which is providing support and protection to this occupation,” said the presidency of the Palestinian Authority, which is trying to reform itself to take control of Gaza after the end of the war. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also present in Gaza, accused the US government and Western governments of providing “political and logistical support” to Israel: Israel “deliberately kills as many civilians as possible, in front of the whole world, without deterrence.” (and) to use the cruelest methods available to him and made available to him by the U.S. government.”
Without an official count by the Gaza Ministry of Health, deaths in Gaza with these victims would exceed 30,000, considering that 29,954 were confirmed yesterday since the war began on October 7th. In addition, it is estimated that more than 7,000 bodies still lie under the rubble. “We hold the US government, the international community, the occupation and international organizations responsible for the occupation’s killing of starving civilians,” the Gaza Strip government added. The group accused the “occupation” of “starving” Gazans and said more than 700,000 people in the northern Gaza Strip are suffering from starvation.
“The attack was deliberate and premeditated in the context of the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the population of the Gaza Strip. The occupying army knew that these victims had come to this area for food and aid, but killed them in cold blood,” the note reads. For its part, Islamic Jihad stated that “this massacre will only strengthen the steadfastness of our people against the Zionist killing machine.” Yesterday, 116 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip – 92 of them through the Kerem Shalom crossing on the border with Israel and 24 via the Rafah border crossing, which connects to Egypt's Sinai – an insufficient amount given the urgent needs of the Gaza Strip. According to UNRWA, around 2,300 trucks entered the Gaza Strip in February, 50% fewer than in January. Faced with the difficulty of delivering humanitarian aid by land, several countries – including Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, France and the United Arab Emirates – have sent parcels of food and aid by air, a strategy announced yesterday to residents of the north of the country Enclave benefited the country for the first time, although some launches accidentally landed in Israeli territory.
Biden: No ceasefire until Monday
The American President Joe Biden, which said this week it hoped for a ceasefire in Gaza by Monday, backtracked and said there would be no lull in hostilities until then. The United States is also examining “conflicting versions” of today's massacre during an aid distribution in Gaza, the American president said as he left the White House for the Mexican border.
Biden predicted earlier this week that an agreement would be possible by Monday to implement a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in return for the release of hostages held by Hamas. “Hope is eternal,” Biden told reporters when asked about the timing of the ceasefire. “I spoke on the phone to people in the area. Probably not on Monday, but I'm hopeful.” The US president said he still had no clarity about what happened in Gaza City, one of the worst incidents in nearly five months of war. “We’re checking it out,” he said. “There are two conflicting versions of what happened, I don't have an answer yet,” he said. Asked if he was worried about the negotiations, he replied: “I know it will lead to complications.”
Guterres “angry”
The Secretary General of the UN Antonio Guterres He said he was “shocked by the tragic number of human casualties in the Gaza conflict, where more than 30,000 people were reportedly killed and more than 70,000 injured. And tragically, an unknown number of people lie under the rubble,” reports Guterres spokesman Stephane Dujarric. Guterres “condemns the incident that occurred today in the northern Gaza Strip, in which more than a hundred people were killed or injured while seeking help.”
“Civilians in Gaza,” he added, “need urgent help, including in the besieged north, where the United Nations has been unable to provide assistance for more than a week.” Guterres reiterated his call for an “immediate ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages “.
USA, Egypt and Qatar are working on mediation
The Egyptian President Abdelfatah al-Sisi and the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, discussed with the US President the mediation efforts of the three countries to agree a ceasefire between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. According to a statement from the Egyptian presidency, Biden called on al-Sisi to “discuss the joint efforts of Egypt, Qatar and the United States to calm the situation in the Gaza Strip, reach a ceasefire, exchange detainees and implement the entry of humanitarian aid.” Help”.
The Egyptian stressed the need to agree on an “immediate” cessation of hostilities, warned of the “danger of continued military operations” by Israel and condemned today's attack on a queue for the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza, which killed more than 100 people became . Biden himself regretted this attack by the White House, which will complicate the process of the ceasefire and the release of the hostages, and made it clear that he no longer expects the pact to be concluded next Monday, as he had predicted a few days ago .
Biden also discussed with al-Thani “developments in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as the State of Qatar's efforts to reach an immediate and lasting ceasefire agreement,” a statement from the emir's office said.
“Meloni’s deep dismay”
“It was with great shock and concern that I learned of the dramatic news of what happened in Gaza today. It is urgent that Israel determines the dynamics of the facts and the associated responsibilities,” explains the Prime Minister. Giorgia Meloni. “The new and numerous civilian casualties require us to immediately intensify our efforts in the ongoing negotiations to create the conditions for a ceasefire and the release of the hostages.”