What happened in the last few hours?
These are the most important news about the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, this Thursday, February 29, at 8:00 p.m.:
The Israeli army fires on a crowd collecting food in an incident that leaves dozens dead in Gaza. The Israeli army admits it fired on a crowd of people trying to collect food from a convoy of trucks in Gaza on Thursday morning. According to the health ministry in Gaza, where Hamas rules, more than 104 people died and more than 700 were injured in the incident. According to official sources, the Palestinian Authority (PNA) condemns the use of tanks and artillery fire by Israeli occupation forces in the “cruel massacre.” The army, for its part, claims that “dozens” were killed or injured because they were pushed, trampled and run over by the convoy's vehicles, but also says its soldiers opened fire when they felt in danger.
Biden acknowledges deaths in the humanitarian aid queue will complicate ceasefire negotiations. The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has acknowledged that the death of a hundred civilians this Thursday in an incident in which Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of people queuing to receive humanitarian aid, the continuation of negotiations to a temporary ceasefire in Gaza. Biden, who traveled to Texas this Thursday to visit the border with Mexico, was asked by journalists about the incident. Specifically, if it would complicate the talks taking place in Qatar. “I know that,” the White House tenant replied.
The Israeli far-right reiterates that the incident in Gaza justifies stopping the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Minister of National Security, the right-wing extremist Itamar Ben Gvir, called this Thursday to stop the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip because, in his opinion, it “endangers” the lives of Israeli soldiers, after more than a hundred people died People (according to Hamas) in an attack on vehicles carrying supplies to the Palestinian enclave besieged by Israeli bombing and famine.
The UN on Israel's attack on a crowd attacking food trucks: “Life in Gaza is ending at a frightening rate.” The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, responded this Thursday to the deaths of dozens of people – more than 100, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health – in Gaza City (north). attacked by the Israeli army while attempting to ambush a convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid. “Life in Gaza is ending at a frightening rate,” Griffiths wrote on his official X account (formerly Twitter). UN Secretary-General António Guterres also condemned the incident through his spokesman Stéphane Dujarric.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said more than 25,000 Palestinian women and children have died in Gaza since October. In total, more than 25,000 children and women were killed in the Israeli offensive in Gaza, as US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin admitted this Thursday during an appearance before Congress. During his appearance, Austin also expressed that Israel “can and must do more” to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Two Israeli settlers are shot dead in the West Bank in an attack that Hamas attributes to a Palestinian police officer. Two Israeli settlers were shot dead this Thursday in a Palestinian attack in the Jewish settlement of Eli in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Red Star of David (MDA, Hebrew acronym) reported, while the attacker was shot down. One victim was shot in his car while the second was found lying on the road nearby, doctors said. They were 57 and 20 years old.