“Armed Palestinians opened fire while Gaza civilians were waiting for the aid convoy to arrive.”
The military spokesman made this known at the end of his investigations into the events that occurred yesterday in the north of the Strip, for which Hamas blamed the Israeli army.
As the convoy of 31 trucks entered the Strip, he continued, "armed Palestinians continued shooting as crowds of Gaza residents began looting the trucks."
The IDF denounced that "Hamas terrorists continue to harm civilians who are looking for food and blame Israel".
"For the first Friday of the month of Ramadan - added the Israeli army - a defamatory campaign was created with the aim of spreading unfounded disinformation with the aim of instigating violence in other areas".
The Israeli army said it would continue to investigate the matter even though "the review of operational systems and military forces on the ground showed that neither tank fire, air strikes nor gunfire were directed at civilians in Gaza awaiting the aid convoy".
The Arabic-language spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Avichay Adraee, denies the reports that appeared in the Arab and Palestinian media according to which the troops of the Jewish State opened fire yesterday evening on people waiting for aid in the city of Gaza, killing 21 people.
“The latest reports that the IDF targeted dozens of Gaza residents on Thursday evening at a humanitarian aid distribution point are incorrect,” Adraee said in a statement posted on his X account. “As the IDF examines the details of the incident with the necessary accuracy, we ask the media to act in the same way and to rely on reliable information regarding the matter", adds the Israeli military spokesperson.
The Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry said at least 21 people had died and 155 others were injured in a new massacre of civilians waiting for help by Jewish state forces near the Kuwait roundabout in the main city. of the Strip.
Meanwhile, Hamas has presented mediators with a ceasefire proposal in Gaza which includes an initial phase of release of Israeli women, children, elderly and sick people held hostage in exchange for the release of 700-1000 Palestinian prisoners.
Reuters reports it on its website.
The proposal would include the release of 100 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli prisons and the release of female Israeli soldiers.
Hamas said in the proposal that it would agree on a date for a permanent ceasefire after the initial exchange of hostages and prisoners.
The fate of the crew of the cargo Galaxy Leader hijacked in November by pro-Iran Houthi militiamen in the Red Sea is now in the hands of Hamas.
Houthi spokesman Nasr Al-Din Amer declared this to CNN: "The ship and its crew are in the hands of the brothers of the Hamas resistance movement and the Al-Qassam Brigades," he said.
The Galaxy Leader was operated by the Japanese company Nippon Yusen.
According to Ambrey Analytics, it is owned by Ray Car Carriers, a company linked to Israeli citizen Abraham Ungar.
The crew includes 17 Filipinos, two Bulgarians, three Ukrainians, two Mexicans and one Romanian.
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