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Palestinians on the way to receive aid from a distribution site In the south, Gaza was criticized for a third consecutive day, with nearly 30 people killed and dozens of injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and Nasser Hospital.
The ministry said the Israeli forces opened fire on the Palestinians while heading for the distribution site in Tel-Sultan in Rafah on Tuesday.
The Israeli army said that its forces had opened fire several times after having identified “several suspects moving towards them, deviating from the designated access routes”.
“The troops made warning fires, and after the suspects did not withdraw, additional blows were directed near a few individual suspects that have advanced to the troops,” the Israeli defense forces (FDI) said in a statement, which also said they were examining victims’ reports.
At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the director of Nasser Hospital in Gaza.
Images obtained by CNN have shown that people arriving at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, many on civilians.
Dr. Marwan al-Hams, head of the Gaza campaign hospitals, said Nasser had been overwhelmed by the number of victims.
“It is only if someone dies inside intensive care units, only then we can make availability for the next patient,” he told CNN. Al-Hams said the injuries he saw was mainly the result of gunshots and concentrated in the upper body of the patients.
The hospital called for urgent blood donations.
The shots took place Tuesday west of Rafah in the region surrounding the Al-Alam roundabout, according to the paramedical paramedics of Palestine Red Crescent Society, near the same place as the shooting incidents in the past two days.
The region is part of an Israeli military operation through Khan Younis, according to a diplomat who monitors developments in Gaza, who declared that the Israeli forces licensed towards a large group of Palestinians whom they perceived as “an imminent threat” while the Palestinians tried to reach the aid distribution site.
Early Tuesday morning, a Facebook page that the controversial supported by the United States and Israel Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) Used to publish information on the opening of distribution sites said that a location would be open in southern Gaza and warned residents to respect a lane designated from 5 a.m.
“The FDI will be in the area to secure the safe passage,” said the press release.
But about an hour later, the page said the site would be closed.
The site finally opened and distributed 21 truck trucks of food boxes, according to GHF. The aid has been distributed “safely and without incident on our site today,” said the organization, adding that the area beyond its security perimeter is “well beyond our site and our secure distribution control”.
The incident marks the third consecutive day that people were killed on the way to the GHF distribution point west of Rafah while trying to obtain food as the famine conditions aggravate in Gaza after A 11 -week blockade by Israel.
Three Palestinians were slaughtered and dozens of injuries while on the way to access the site on Monday morning, the Palestinian and Hospital authorities said. The Israeli Defense Forces (FDI) said that Israeli forces have shown warning shots about one kilometer from the aid distribution site and that it examined the details of the incident.
Sunday, dozens of Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army in the same region, according to Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses. The Israeli army denied that its troops have drawn “inside or near” from the aid distribution site.
Palestinian officials said 31 people had been killed and that the scores were injured in Sunday’s incident. An Israeli military source recognized that Israeli forces drew towards individuals about a kilometer (1093 yards) before the opening of the aid site.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
