Scores of people were killed and injured when Israeli forces shelled Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza, the Palestinian Health Ministry in the Strip said Sunday.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the attack took place at the Kuwait roundabout, south of Gaza City.
“Israeli occupation forces are carrying out a systematic genocide against thousands of hungry stomachs in northern Gaza,” the spokesman said.
There was no comment from the Israeli army on the report.
The attack came three days after at least 118 Palestinians were killed and 760 others injured on Thursday when Israeli forces shelled a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid south of Gaza City.
Israeli occupation forces targeted Palestinians, killing and injuring dozens of civilians while they were waiting for the arrival of the aid trucks at the Kuwait roundabout, northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/B7SL5hMvUN
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) March 3, 2024
Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 30,410 Palestinians have been killed, and 71,700 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire.’
(PC, Anadolu)
