The Israeli army denied this Thursday, May 28, after having opened fire against the crowd the day before the margin of a humanitarian aid distribution provided by a private company in the south of the Gaza Strip. Tsahal was involved by a UN official who reported numerous bullets.
“We are reviewing UN information at the time of speaking, we have no information on this issue,” Colonel Olivier Rafowicz, spokesman for the Israeli army, told AFP.
The Israeli soldiers “carried out calls in the air, in the outer area” from the center managed by the GHF company, “in no case for people,” he said. “Hamas does everything to avoid humanitarian aid,” added the officer.
“About 47 people were injured”
“About 47 people were injured” on Tuesday, most of them for Israeli fire, when thousands of Palestinians rushed to a new Rafah aid distribution center in the south of the Gaza Strip, Ajith Sunghay, journalists, head of the United Nations Office in the High Commissioner in the Palestinian territories on Wednesday.
“Most of the injured were shot by bullet,” and “the shots came from the Israeli army,” he said.
According to AFP journalists at the scene, thousands of Palestinians rushed this center administered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on Tuesday, an organization created from scratch with the support of the United States and Israel to distribute assistance within the Gaza Strip.
The United Nations and international aid agencies said they would not cooperate with GHF, an objective of accusations that she works with Israel without any Palestinian participation and avoiding the UN.
“We have expressed many concerns [à propos de] This mechanism, “said Ajith Sunghay.” What we saw yesterday is a very clear example of the dangers of food distribution, under the conditions implemented by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. “
Source: BFM TV
