Dozens of civilians died this Sunday in Gaza City, in the north of the strip, when the Israeli army opened fire on them while they were waiting for humanitarian aid in the midst of a hunger crisis, the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said.

“Israeli occupying forces committed a terrible massacre in which dozens of people were killed and others were injured at the Kuwait roundabout,” the ministry, which is controlled by the political wing of the Islamist group Hamas, said in a statement.

The victims were there waiting for trucks with flour, a department representative assured the agency. EFEexplaining this by the lack of an exact number of deaths, since “Bodies are scattered along the street. Since no one has access to them, no one dares to count them” due to the danger of the area.

Israeli army “carries out systematic genocide against hundreds of thousands of starving people in northern Gaza,” the ministry emphasized.

Agency consultation EFEarmy He did not express his version of events.

On the other hand, in Deir el-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, at least five people were killed and four more were injured when an Israeli army drone opened fire on them while they were being transported in a truck, said the Red Crescent emergency service that treated the victims.

This was reported by a representative of this organization. EFE What The number of dead and injured as a result of the incident has increased. as ambulances from other emergency services provided medical care to other people.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa claims that “small” truck transporting humanitarian aid and that at least eight people were killed in the incident, but an army spokesman said EFE that there was no help in the truck.

According to a military department spokesman, It was an air attack by troops based on intelligence information, eliminate Mahmoud Muhamad Abd Jad, responsible for recruiting agents for Hamas and raising funds for the Islamist group.

On Saturday, Israel attacked a group of civilians who They were waiting for humanitarian aid to arrive near the Al Nabulsi roundabout. in the south of Gaza City, leaving one person dead and 26 injured, Wafa reported.

These attacks occur after At least 118 Gazans were killed and another 760 injured last Thursday. in Gaza City as they gathered around aid trucks under fire from the Israeli army.

Medical sources who treated the victims assured Palestinian media that most had gunshot and shrapnel wounds, while Hamas accused Israel of carrying out a “premeditated” attack on civilians awaiting aid.

However, this Sunday the Israeli army assured that The troops “did not attack the humanitarian aid convoy” although some soldiers fired at “marauders” who came too close and “posed an immediate threat.”

“Most Palestinians died or were injured as a result of the stampede.”Daniel Hagary, a military spokesman, confirmed this in a recorded speech in which he announced that a comprehensive investigation into the events remains open.

Jose Luis Michelena, This was stated by the executive director of Doctors Without Borders in Mexico and Central America. Aristegui Live need for independent investigation about what happened and called for a humanitarian ceasefire, warning that the situation was worsening every day, with deaths, infections and hunger rising.

The war between Israel and Hamas, which began on October 7, 2023, after an attack by the Islamist group, left about 1200 killed and 250 kidnapped, It caused the deaths of more than 30,400 people in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children.

In addition, survivors in the Palestinian enclave, including more than 70,000 wounded, face unprecedented humanitarian crisis, with the collapse of hospitals, outbreaks of epidemics, shortages of medicine and electricity, and severe shortages of drinking water and food that reached the level of famine and caused the death of many civilians.

(according to information from EFE And Aristegui News)