THE FLOUR MASSACRE AT LEAST 1150 KILLED & WOULNDED AFTER ISRAEL OPENS FIRE ON STARVING CIVILIANS
March 1, 2024The #US has blocked a statement put forward by #Algeria to the #UN Security Council that would have assigned blame to #Israel for the killing of more than 150 Palestinians and injuring over 1000 others awaiting food aid in northern Gaza.
#Palestine’s UN ambassador, Riyad Mansour, told reporters that the statement was backed by all of the #UNSC’s 15 members except the US.
Explaining the decision to block the statement, US Ambassador Robert Wood said, “We don’t have all the facts on the ground – that’s the problem.”
The massacre happenee in the early hours of Thursday morning, whilst civilians were awaiting desperately-need Aid trucks arriving from Rafah. After the trucks arrived they were surrounded by the starving civilians at which time Israeli troops started firing on the large crowd racing to pull food off the aid convoy. More than 100 people were killed, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials.
Aid groups say it has become nearly impossible to deliver humanitarian assistance in most of Gaza because of the difficulty of coordinating with the Israeli military, ongoing hostilities and the breakdown of public order, with crowds of desperate people overwhelming aid convoys. The U.N. says a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians face starvation; around 80% have fled their homes.
Kamel Abu Nahel, who was being treated for a gunshot wound at Shifa Hospital, said he and others went to the distribution point in the middle of the night because they heard there would be a delivery of food. “We’ve been eating animal feed for two months,” he said.
He said Israeli troops opened fire on the crowd as people pulled boxes of flour and canned goods off the trucks, causing them to scatter, with some hiding under cars. After the shooting stopped, people went back to the trucks, and the soldiers opened fire again. He was shot in the leg and fell over, and then a truck ran over his leg as it sped off, he said.
#gaza #israel
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Well it is 14:00 hours GMT 4 p.m. in Gaza, where Palestinians are mourning the killing of at least 104 people by the Israeli military. Nearly 700 people were injured, dozens in critical condition. More than 30,000 Palestinians have now been killed since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October. Well, Thursday’s attack is being described as a massacre of civilians by Israeli troops. Hundreds of hungry and starving Palestinians were gathered to collect food aid when they were attacked by Israeli snipers and shelled by Israeli tanks.
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