[News] ‘Price of Aid is Death’ - Israel Shells Palestinians Waiting for Humanitarian Aid

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‘Price of Aid is Death’ - Israel Shells Palestinians Waiting for
Humanitarian AidMarch 12, 2024
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Aid trucks headed to northern Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine
Chronicle)

Several Palestinians were killed and others injured on Tuesday in a new
Israeli shelling of Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in the
northern Gaza Strip, Anadolu news agency reported.

Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting to receive aid near the
Kuwait roundabout, Salameh Maarouf, head of the Gaza-based government media
office, said in a statement.

The statement added that the new attack brought the death toll of
Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid to 400 people, with 1,300 others
injured.

Earlier on Tuesday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that
at least nine people were killed and more than 20 others injured when the
Israeli army dropped bombs and opened fire on Palestinians awaiting aid
trucks south of Gaza City.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza on Tuesday urged the international
community to save Palestinians in the northern areas of the Strip from
starvation, stressing that the Israeli army has made it a “routine” to
target crowds waiting for aid.

“Bombing gatherings of starving people has become a daily routine practiced
by the (Israeli) occupation, and seen by the international community on
TV,” the Health Ministry said in a statement.

“The price of a small package of aid may mean certain death,” the ministry
added.
*Genocide Continues*

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, 31,112 Palestinians have been
killed, and 72,760 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)*


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