Palestinians look at the heavily damaged humanitarian aid vehicle which has been the target of Israeli airstrikes resulting in scores of deaths and injuries in Deir Al-Balah of Gaza on March 03, 2024. (Photo by Anadolu Agency)
Deir Al-Balah, March 3 (RHC)-- Israeli regime forces have bombed another aid truck in central Gaza, killing and injuring scores of Palestinians in Deir Al-Balah in the besieged strip. Thousands of starving people were collecting food from the aid truck on Sunday when the Israeli forces attacked the Palestinians. This is the second attack by the Israeli regime forces in the last five days on displaced Palestinians awaiting food aid in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The UN human rights chief expresses dismay concerning the brutality with which Israel is leading its ongoing months-long war of genocide against Gaza. “Many people were killed and others wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted an aid truck in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip,” medics, who wished to remain anonymous, told media.
So far, the number of casualties from the latest Israeli attack is not clear. The earlier attack by the Israeli forces in the south of Gaza City on Thursday left at least 112 Palestinians dead and several hundred more injured.
The Palestinian ambassador to the UN pleads for the Security Council to condemn the Israeli attack on thousands of starving Palestinians awaiting food relief that left more than 100 dead and hundreds injured.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, said: “This outrageous massacre is a testimony to the fact that as long as the Security Council is paralyzed and vetoes [are cast] then it is costing the Palestinian people their lives.” Washington has three times blocked Security Council resolutions for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated the mission to "destroy Hamas" in Gaza. The pressure increased dramatically in the wake of Thursday's deadly encounter just outside Gaza City.
A United Nations team says “a large number” of Palestinian civilians seeking food aid have been shot in the Gaza Strip, after Israeli military forces opened fire on an aid convoy in the besieged enclave.
Video footage captured from the moment gunfire erupted shows thousands of starving Palestinians gathered in the hope of receiving food as a rare humanitarian convoy pulled into the area.
Tracer ammunition rounds can be seen streaking across the sky in the video from the direction of an Israeli military position.
Medics said dozens were killed and hundreds injured, and doctors at Gaza City's barely functioning hospitals told media the majority of the deaths were from gunshot wounds.
