One accuses, the other denies. At least 31 people were killed on Sunday, June 1 in Israeli shots on Sunday, June 1, according to civil defense, apart from the distribution of aid in the Palestinian territory, where the hope of a truce still faces the lack of agreement between Israel and Hamas in an American proposal.
The humanitarian situation is disastrous in the Gaza Strip, where a blockade imposed by Israel for more than two months and partially relaxed last week led to a serious shortage of food, drugs and other basic needs.
The Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip ensures that these Israeli shots against the people who headed to an American center to distribute food aid in the Palestinian territory were also injured more than 176.
“There were many people, it was chaos” and “The army shot drones and tanks,” said Abdallah Barbakh, 58, at AFP. He said it went to this center of the Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza (GHF), a private company supported by Israel and the United States.
Israel denies
The Israeli army denied by having triggered civilians near a humanitarian aid center in the Gaza Strip.
“In the last hours, false information has been disseminated, in particular serious accusations against the army regarding the shooting of Gaza residents in the area of the humanitarian aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip,” the army said in a statement.
“The conclusions of an initial investigation indicate that the army did not shoot civilians who were close or inside the site,” he added.
The head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said that the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza had become a “deadly trap”, citing information from doctors in the field that showed “mass losses” among civilians hungry on Sunday morning.
“Deliveries and aid distribution must be done on a large and safe scale,” wrote the Chief of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini, in a message posted in his X account. “In the Gaza Strip, this can only be done through the United Nations, including Unrwa,” he added.
“The most hungry place in the world”
Only the limited amounts of help have entered Gaza since the lightening of the block imposed by Israel. According to the spokesman of the UN Humanitarian Affairs Office (Ocha), the Gaza Strip is “the most hungry place in the world”, where “100% of the population is threatened with the famine.”
Almost 20 months after the start of the war, the negotiations for a high fire and an agreement for the release of the hostages selected in the Gaza Strip have not been successful since the resumption of fights in mid -March, at the initiative of Israel, after a two -month truce.
Of 251 people kidnapped on October 7, 57 remain held in Gaza, at least 34 of them are dead, according to Israeli authorities. Hamas said on Saturday that he responded “positively” to an American proposal presented this week, but the United States emissary for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, judged this “completely unacceptable” response, criticizing a step back.
Hamas “should accept the proposal we have presented as a basis for conversations,” he said on platform X, without any other detail. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, also judged that Hamas’ response was “supporting the process.”
“Amends to the closers” of Hamas
On Sunday, a Hamas leader reproached Americans for returning to what had previously been agreed. “We have demanded amendments to the clauses that do not guarantee the end of the massacres, which do not guarantee sustainable humanitarian aid, the return of the displaced persons or that do not impose clear obligations to the occupation (Israel, Note) to withdraw and stop war,” said this Hamas, Mahmoud Al-Mardawi official.
“Ironically, the amendments we have requested are identical, word for word, to which it had agreed with the American mediator in recent weeks,” he said.
At the end of May, Benjamin Netanyahu had conditioned the end of the war in the “exile” of Hamas and the “disarmament” of the Gaza Strip, requirements rejected so far by the Palestinian movement that took power in 2007. The attack on October 7 led to the death of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mainly civilians, according to an AFP statement.
More than 54,418 Palestinians, mainly civil, were killed in Israeli military retaliations, according to data from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas Government for Gaza, considered reliable by the UN.
Source: BFM TV
