Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid, over 100 Palestinians dead and hundreds more injured

Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid, over 100 Palestinians dead and hundreds more injured

 

The New York Times reports:

Gazan authorities said that more than 100 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a chaotic scene early Thursday morning in Gaza City, where a crowd gathered around a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed aid and the Israeli military opened fire.

Drone footage released by the Israeli military shows hundreds of people circling around the trucks along the Al-Rashid coast road, and a video posted on social media includes audio of shots fired near civilians.

Gazan and Israeli authorities have offered differing accounts of the event: Gazan health officials said in a statement that scores of people were brought to hospitals with gunshot wounds and were killed or injured in a “massacre,” while Israeli officials said most were killed or injured in a stampede or after getting run over by trucks.

The drone video, which does not include audio, was edited by the Israeli military with multiple clips spliced together, leaving out a key moment before many in the crowd start running away from the trucks, with some people crawling behind walls, appearing to take cover. [Continue reading…]

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