“I feel terrified…and shocked.” With these words, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and European Union foreign policy official Joseph Borrell expressed their shock at the killing of 110 Palestinians during an aid distribution operation in the “Nabulsi Roundabout” in northern Gaza at dawn yesterday, Thursday, according to a Ministry tally. Palestinian health in the Gaza Strip.
Guterres said that the killing of more than 100 people seeking humanitarian aid is a matter that requires an independent and effective investigation.
He also added that he was “shocked” by the latest developments in the Israeli war in Gaza.
In response to questions about the failure of a recent Security Council resolution that sought a ceasefire in the Strip, the UN official said that the worsening geopolitical divisions “turned the veto into an effective tool to paralyze the work of the Security Council.”
“Another massacre”
In turn, Borrell expressed in a tweet on his account on the
He stressed that these deaths are completely unacceptable, adding that “depriving people of food aid is a serious violation of international humanitarian law.”
These denunciations came as the Israeli army published a video of what it said showed crowds of northern Gaza residents flocking to relief trucks and surrounding them, which led to a stampede and chaos, with the trucks running over civilians, as it claimed.
Video ignites a whirlwind
Note that a spokesman had previously acknowledged that the army had opened fire on some groups that approached the trucks and posed a threat to its members and soldiers. He also explained at the same time that some people fell as a result of crowding.
Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadath correspondent also confirmed earlier that Israeli forces opened fire on civilians in the “Nabulsi Roundabout” southwest of Gaza City, pointing out that dozens of wounded and dead were taken to hospitals.
However, Israel’s publication of this video turned against it, as it ignited a wave of criticism on social media. Many of those who watched the clip published by the army spokesman, Avichay Adraee, on his account on the X platform yesterday, commented that this is the clearest proof of the starvation policy pursued by the Israeli forces in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The video, taken by an Israeli drone from the air, showed hundreds of people walking around trucks along the Al-Rashid coastal road in Gaza.
However, the video published by the Israeli army “without sound” showed the presence of multiple clips connected together, leaving the scene ambiguous about the period before the crowds rushed to flee and escape, and some people crawled behind the walls, as if they were taking cover.
At least a dozen bodies appeared on the ground at the scene of the accident, according to a video clip, according to the New York Times.
Also, two Israeli military vehicles appeared at the site.
On the other hand, another clip spread among many Palestinians on social media, documenting hearing gunfire near civilians.
Yesterday, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Ashraf Al-Qudra, announced the latest toll of 112 deaths and 760 injuries as a result of what he described as Israeli targeting of Palestinians who were waiting for aid in western Gaza City.
It is noteworthy that approximately 300,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip have been deprived of the entry of United Nations relief trucks for about a month, amid international and UN warnings of the specter of famine looming over thousands of Gazans who have been suffocatingly besieged since the outbreak of war on the seventh of last October.
