Many dead and wounded after gunfire near Gaza aid distribution point
Speaking to Le Monde by phone, the 40-year-old Palestinian father said the shooting began around 3:30 am. (Israel has banned international journalists from the Gaza Strip for over a year and a half.) Those who came via the beach found themselves under fire from "Israeli cruisers at sea," he said, and he saw "seven or eight martyrs lying on the ground." At 4:30 am, he claimed, Israeli quadcopter drones began firing into the crowd. "A woman and her daughter collapsed in front of me. I thought she was exhausted because we walk enormous distances on foot. In fact, she had been shot in the knee," he recounted.
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