Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army did not immediately comment on this information. This assessment is impossible to verify from an independent source.
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The Hamas Ministry of Health reported, on the night of Thursday March 14 to Friday March 15, at least 14 dead and more than a hundred injured in “Israeli fire” on a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip.
“Israeli occupying forces targeted a gathering of citizens awaiting humanitarian aid [à un rond-point de la ville de Gaza]. So far 11 dead and 100 injured have been transported to al-Chifa hospital.”the ministry initially declared, before revising the toll upwards to 14 dead and 150 injured.
Many deaths during a food aid distribution in February
“There was direct fire from the occupying forces on people who were gathering at the Kuwait roundabout to wait for trucks with food to arrive.”, told AFP Doctor Mohammed Ghurab, director of emergency services at this hospital, the largest in the north of the Gaza Strip. On site, an AFP collaborator saw numerous remains and gunshot wounds. Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army did not immediately comment on this information. This assessment is impossible to verify from an independent source.
At the end of February, more than a hundred Palestinians lost their lives, according to Hamas, in a food aid distribution which turned into a nightmare in the north of the Gaza Strip.
