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2025-06-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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44 said killed near Gaza aid sites; UN condemns ‘weaponization’ of food distribution
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[IsraelTimes] IDF says it fired at gathering ‘adjacent’ to troops in Strip’s center, injuries ‘under investigation,’ in latest in string of mass-casualty incidents
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’s civil defense agency reported 44 people killed by the Israel Defense Forces while waiting for aid in separate incidents in southern and central Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
early Tuesday.
Responding to the reported deaths, the IDF later said that a gathering overnight had been identified in an area "adjacent" to its troops in the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza, where the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid group is known to hand out food. Reports of individuals injured by military fire in the area were "under review," the IDF said.
It is unclear when precisely the reported shooting near the aid sites took place. Earlier this month, the IDF warned Paleostinians not to approach routes leading to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. local time, describing those roads as closed military zones. However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
the GHF has indicated it may be open during those hours.
In central Gaza, three witnesses told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the army opened fire as people advanced east toward aid trucks south of Wadi Gaza.
"It was a massacre," said Ahmed Halawa. He said tanks and drones fired at people, "even as we were fleeing. Many people were either martyred or maimed."
"I died...twice. I got better"
Hossam Abu Shahada said drones were flying over the area, watching the crowds, then there was gunfire from tanks and drones as people were moving eastward. He described a "chaotic and bloody" scene as people tried to escape.
He said he saw at least three people lying motionless and many others maimed.
The Awda hospital in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, which received the victims, confirmed 25 deaths and said 146 others were maimed. It said 62 were at death's door and transferred to other hospitals.
In the central town of Deir al-Balah, the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said it received the bodies of six people from the same incident.
In the southernmost city of Rafah, witnesses said Israeli troops opened fire as crowds tried to reach another food distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
At least 19 were killed and 50 others maimed, according to Nasser hospital and Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Two witnesses said Israeli troops started firing as thousands of Paleostinians massed at the Shakoush area, several hundred meters (yards) from the distribution site.
Footage from an AFP journalist from the scene of the gunfire in central Gaza showed maimed residents being carried to a nearby hospital, with some appearing to be unconscious and pale.
"How long will this situation go on? How long will people have to endure this? We want a solution for these victims who are dying," Rabhi al-Qassas, an eyewitness, told AFP.
According to figures issued on Saturday by the Hamas health ministry, at least 450 people have been killed and nearly 3,500 injured by Israeli fire while seeking aid since late May. Many of the incidents have occurred near sites operated by the GHF, according to rescuers.
The US- and Israeli-backed organization, which was established to circumvent Hamas in the distribution of aid, issued a complaint Tuesday to the Israeli military over "possible harassment by Israeli soldiers directed at our convoys" heading to the Wadi Gaza site.
The GHF opened three sites Tuesday — two in southern Gaza, and the Wadi Gaza site in the central Strip — and distributed 34,500 boxes of food, which contain enough food for 5.5 people for 3.5 days according to the organization’s own figures.
The organization has said the contents — consisting of dry food products — need to be prepared elsewhere in war-ravaged Gaza, where community kitchens and cooking supplies are limited.
Israel, which said that 79 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip Monday via the Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings, has acknowledged firing warning shots at suspicious people near distribution sites, but denies targeting civilians or using starvation as a weapon of war, and has accused Hamas of hijacking aid deliveries and embedding itself among civilians.
INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION
Part of this section snipped, because it’s become boring. The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees also hit out at the GHF system.
“The newly created so-called aid mechanism is an abomination that humiliates and degrades desperate people,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said at a press conference in Berlin. “It is a death trap costing more lives than it saves.”
“The humanitarian community, including UNRWA, has the expertise and must be allowed to do their job and provide assistance with respect and dignity,” said Lazzarini. “There is no other alternative to address the challenges of spreading hunger in the Gaza Strip.”
Israel has accused UNRWA of providing cover for Hamas terrorists and, earlier this year, banned the agency from operating on Israeli soil or contacting officials.
The UN and major aid groups have refused to cooperate with the foundation over concerns that it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives.
The GHF began operating in Gaza after a nearly three-month blockade Israel placed on the Strip following the collapse of the last ceasefire-hostage deal with Hamas in early March.
Israel resumed aid deliveries to Gaza on May 19, after a pause since March 2. Since then, 2,033 trucks have entered the Strip.
Israel has accused Hamas of hoarding aid and selling it at exorbitant rates amid the war sparked on October 7, 2023, when the terror group stormed southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
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