The Israeli attack near the distribution point of help led by a private American group killed at least 31 people in Gaza on Sunday, as the local health authorities said, when Hamas and Israel exchanged the blame for weakening efforts to protect weapons.
The Rafah incident in the south of the enclave was the latest series emphasizing the unstable security situation, which complicated the delivery of help to gauze, after alleviating the almost three -year Israeli blockade last month.
“There are martyrs and injuries. Many injuries. This is a tragic situation in this place. I advise them that no one goes to help delivery points. Pretty,” said Abu Tareq medical rescuer in the nearby city of Khan Youńis.
The Palestinian Red Crescent, associated with the International Red Cross, said that his medical teams regained the bodies of 23 Palestinians and treated another 23 wounded near the place of gathering help in Rafah. The Humanitarian Gaza Foundation (GHF) with headquarters in the USA runs the distribution of help in Rafah.
The Red Crescent also announced that 14 consecutive Palestinians were injured near a separate place in Central Gaza. GHF also runs a place of distribution of help in central gas.
Earlier, the Palestinian Press Agency WAFA and Media related to Hamas have placed the number of deaths out of 30. Local health authorities said that at least 31 organs to the Nasser hospital had arrived so far.
The Israeli army said in a statement that they analyzed reports that the Palestinians were shot at the place of distribution of help, but there were no conscious injuries caused by military fire. GHF denied that someone was killed or wounded near his place in Rafah and said that all his distribution took place without incidents.
The American company accused Hamas of producing “false reports”.
The World Food Program at the UN calls for an immediate scale of food supply and distribution in gas to “calm people who do not starve.” The statement appeared when the agency announced that “hordes of hungry people” broke into one of its magazines, and at least two people died, and a few more were injured.
Residents and doctors said that Israeli soldiers launched from the ground in a nearby crane, which goes out to this area, and the tank opened a fire about thousands of people who were on their way to get help in Rafah. Reuters film material showed that ambulance vehicles carrying injured people to the Nasser hospital.
The Government Media Bureau Hamas in Gaza said that Israel changed the distribution places into “death traps” for people seeking help.
“We confirm to the world that what is happening is a deliberate and malicious use of help as a” weapon of war “employed to use starving civilians and forcibly gathering them in exposed killing zones, which are managed and monitored by the Israeli army,” he said.
Rea Abu Jazar said that her brother was killed, waiting for food to collect in the center of distribution of help in Rafah. “Let them stop these massacre, stop this genocide. They kill us,” she said when Palestinian people gathered for funeral prayers.
Arafat Siyam said that his brother left at 23:00 the previous evening to collect food for his wife and eight children from the same distribution site in Rafah in southern Gaza.
Siyam accused the Israeli army of killing his brother. “It's unfair. What they do is unfair,” he said.
“Fire from all directions,” say witnesses
When thousands went towards the distribution site a few hours before dawn, the Israeli forces ordered them to disperse and return later, the witnesses said.
When the crowds were about one kilometer at a distance of, around 3 am the Israeli forces opened fire, the witnesses said.
“There was fire from all directions, from the Navy, from tanks and drones,” said Amr Abu Teiba, who was in the crowd.
He said he saw at least 10 bodies with gunshot wounds and several other wounded, including women.
People used prams to screen the dead and wounded to a field hospital.
“The scene was terrible,” he said.
Ibrahim Abu Saoud, another eyewitness, presented an almost identical relationship, saying that the army fired from a distance of about 300 meters.
Abu Saoud said that he saw many people with gunshot wounds, including a young man who, as he said, died at the scene.
“We were unable to help him,” he said.
33 -year -old Mohammed Abu Teaima said that he saw Israeli forces opening fire and kill his cousin and another woman when they were heading towards the distribution site.
He said that his cousin was shot in his chest and died at the scene. He said many others were injured, including his brother -in -law.
“They opened a heavy fire directly towards us,” he said, waiting for the Red Cross Hospital hospital for his wounded relative.
The Humanitarian Foundation in Gaza distributed the Palestinian help boxes in Rafah when you could hear the shooting while people tried to reach a distribution point.
GHF is an American entity supported by US and Israel's governments, which provides humanitarian help in gas, bypassing traditional help groups. Last month, she started working in Gaza and has three pages in which thousands of help.
GHF is widely criticized by the international community, and UN officials say that its help plans will only be forced to transfer Palestinians and greater violence.
The group's executive director resigned in May, citing what he said that the lack of independence and neutrality of the individual. It is not clear who finances the company.
Israeli officials said that Palestinians would be shown to exclude everyone associated with Hamas.
Suspension suspension suspension
The Sunday incident took place when Israel and Hamas blamed the new Arab and American mediation test in order to ensure the temporary suspension of weapons and the release of Israeli hostages, which took place in Gaza by Hamas, in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
Hamas said on Saturday that he was looking for amendments to the proposal to suspend a weapon supported by the US, but the US President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, said the group's response as “completely unacceptable”.
The Palestinian group of fighters said that they are ready to release 10 live hostages and give the bodies of 18 dead in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. But Hamas repeated the demands of the end of the war and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, the conditions that Israel rejected.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his government agreed to the outline of Witkof.
Israel began its offensive in Gaza in response to the attack led by Hamas to southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people, mainly civilians, according to Israel, and saw 251 hostages in Gaza.
The Israeli campaign devastated most of the gauze, killing over 54,000 Palestinians and destroying most buildings. Many people in Gaza now live in shelters in makeshift camps. Gaza health officials inform that most of the dead are civilians. The number of killed fighters remains unclear.