Gaza Stampede is killed at at least GHF AID 20

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At least 20 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday, as thousands of hungry tried to reach food at a distribution site in southern Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli initiative and supported by the United States.

GHF has announced deaths, as it was identified the first time that the deaths associated with the four distribution sites were approved. The last incident was followed by at least 500 Palestinians by the Israeli army near the GHF centers since they opened at the end of May, according to the local authorities.

GHF said: “We were saddened by confirming that 20 people died this morning in a tragic accident in SDS3 (aid distribution site) in Khan Yunis,” GHF said.

“Our current understanding is that 19 of the victims have been refuted and that one of them stabbed the chaotic and dangerous mutation, driven by incitement in the crowd.”

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said: “For the first time, the martyrs were registered due to suffocation and intense congestion in relief distribution centers. The Israeli profession and the American Foundation are committed to deliberate metaphors.”

He said that “gas” was launched on the crowd, but GHF said that “false. Our team does not use tear gas.”

GHF accused Hamas of causing killings, saying it “has a reliable reason for the belief that the elements inside the crowd – armed and belonging to Hamas – deliberately raised the disturbances.” No evidence was immediately provided that there are links with the armed group.

The organization said that its members identified multiple firearms in the crowd, one of which was issued. She said that the American worker was threatened by a firearm by a member of the crowd during the accident.

GHF, which has become the favorite mechanism of the Israeli government to provide humanitarian aid in Gaza, has opened only four locations in the pocket. These are rarely open on the same day.

They paint huge crowds of desperate people who often walk throughout the night across the dangerous Israeli military areas while they sought to collect food.

The queue of researchers in a queue in the beloved alleys leading to the sites. Once the gates are opened, they are immersed in the centers that The packed aid accumulates to seize it In what people who attended as “free for all” describe it, they lack the organized distribution.

Several victims were photographed on the designated methods of approach to the sites. The four GHF centers aim to serve more than 2 million people who live in hunger conditions yet Israel In March, it began to ban most of the delivery operations by humanitarian groups.

The Foundation said it plans to expand the scope of the operation to reach more people.

Israel has strengthened the GHF plan as an alternative to the United Nations system in force, which accused it of allowing Hamas’s bathrooms to stop aid. The United Nations denied that there was any significant transfer of aid to Hamas.

United Nations and other major humanitarian groups refused to work with GHF, accusing him of lifting weapons in military centers to force the displacement from Palestinians to the south.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said earlier this year that it was “very concerned that it would not allow the distribution of humanitarian aid in a way that is consistent with the basic humanitarian principles of neutrality, humanity and independence.”