29 killed in attack on Palestinians waiting for relief
Last Updated on March 15, 2024 7:55 am
Israeli forces attacked Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in the besieged Gaza Strip. 29 Palestinians died.
Israel attacked the relief seekers in two separate places in Gaza. Besides, more than 150 people were injured in the attack.
This information was reported by the US news agency Reuters in a report on Friday citing the Ministry of Health of Gaza.
At least 29 Palestinians were killed while waiting for aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, it reported. 8 Palestinians were killed in one incident and 21 Palestinians in the other. They were all waiting for relief.
Palestinian health officials in Gaza said in the first incident, eight people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on an aid distribution center in al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. Then the second attack happened.
At least 21 people were killed and more than 150 wounded when Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for an aid truck at a roundabout in northern Gaza, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
Meanwhile, citing the Ministry of Health, Al Jazeera reported that the bodies of 20 people killed in the Israeli attack on the Kuwait roundabout have been brought to Al-Shifa Hospital. 20 dead Palestinians and 155 wounded people have been taken to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the Ministry of Health said after Israel’s firing on aid seekers in Gaza City.
On February 29, the Palestinian Health Authority reported that the Israeli military shot and killed hundreds of Palestinians waiting at a relief distribution center near Gaza City.