The Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip said this Sunday, July 20 that 57 Palestinians had been killed and dozens injured by “Israeli fires” near a distribution of humanitarian aid in the north of the Palestinian territory devastated by war.
Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal, told the France-Presse (AFP) agency that 57 people were killed after “Israel, editor’s note) in the direction of people who wait for help in the Zikim area, in the northwest of the city of Gaza.” Requested by AFP, the army said he was asking about the informed facts.
“As if they were chasing wild animals”
“Thousands of people were gathered, all trying to get flour,” says Qassem Abou Khater, who turned to the distribution point as soon as he learned.
“The tanks took random over us, and the snipers of the occupation (Israel, an editor’s note) opened fire as if they pursued wild animals in a forest,” he describes.
This 36 -year -old man is from Japalia in the north of the Gaza Strip, and was moved by fighting, with his family. Now live west of the city of Gaza. He claims to have seen “dozen of people” die in front of him.
Hamas denounces a “massacre”
“We ask ourselves: do I have to return with an injured person to save him, or with a meal bag to save my family and my children? My God, to which we are reduced,” he laments. Hamas has denounced a “massacre.”
The two million Palestinians besieged by Israel in Gaza are on the verge of famine after more than 21 months of conflict, caused by an unprecedented attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.
Source: BFM TV
