32 killed in Gaza
GAZA: At least 32 people were killed by Zionist fire while they were on their way to an aid distribution site in Gaza at dawn on Saturday, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The Zionist military said it had fired warning shots at suspects who approached its troops after they did not heed calls to stop, about a kilometer away from an aid distribution site that was not active at the time.
Gaza resident Mohammed Al-Khalidi said he was in the group approaching the site and heard no warnings before the firing began. 'We thought they came out to organize us so we can get aid, suddenly (I) saw the jeeps coming from one side, and the tanks from the other and started shooting at us,' he said. The Gaza Humanitarian Fund, a US-backed group which runs the aid site, said there were no incidents or fatalities there on Saturday and that it has repeatedly warned people not to travel to its distribution points at dark. 'The reported IDF (Defense Forces) activity resulting in fatalities occurred hours before our sites opened and our understanding is most of the casualties occurred several kilometres away from the nearest GHF site,' it said. The Zionist military said it was reviewing the incident.
Deaths near aid sites
GHF uses private US security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely bypassing a UN-led system that Zionist entity alleges has let Hamas-led militants loot aid shipments intended for civilians. Hamas denies the accusation. The UN has called the GHF's model unsafe and a breach of humanitarian impartiality standards, which GHF denies. On Tuesday, the UN rights office in Geneva said it had recorded at least 875 killings within the past six weeks in the vicinity of aid sites and food convoys in Gaza - the majority of them close to GHF distribution points.
Most of those deaths were caused by gunfire that locals have blamed on Zionist military. The military has acknowledged that civilians were harmed, saying that Zionist forces had been issued new instructions with 'lessons learned'. At least 18 more people were killed in other attacks across Gaza on Saturday, health officials said. The military said that it had struck militants' weapon depots and sniping posts in a few locations in the enclave.
The war began when militants stormed into Zionist entity on October 7, 2023. The Zionist military campaign against Hamas in Gaza has since killed around 58,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians according to health officials, displaced almost the entire population and plunged the enclave into a humanitarian crisis, leaving much of the territory in ruins. Zionist entity and Hamas are engaged in indirect talks in Qatar aimed at reaching a 60-day ceasefire though there has been no sign of any imminent breakthrough.— Reuters
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