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Trucks carrying relief supplies are entering the Gaza Strip - according to aid organizations, the humanitarian situation is catastrophic.
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An aid operation in Gaza ends in tragedy with over a hundred dead and hundreds injured.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights describes the ongoing attacks as “carnage”.
Geneva/Gaza - Violence broke out around an aid delivery in the city of Gaza this morning.
The Hamas-controlled health authority accused Israel's army of attacking a crowd waiting for aid.
104 people are said to have been killed and 760 injured.
The information could not initially be independently verified.
The Israeli army said local residents crowded around arriving trucks carrying relief supplies and looted them.
According to this, dozens of people were injured by jostling and trampling.
The incident is currently being investigated.
Several Israeli media outlets also reported, citing army sources, that some of the crowd, for an undisclosed reason, eventually approached the soldiers who were coordinating the import of the trucks, thereby endangering them.
Accordingly, the military opened fire on the group.
According to the reports, there was initially no information about deaths and injuries.
A local resident named Mahmud Ahmed told the German Press Agency that people had wanted to receive trucks with relief goods from the south of the coastal area early in the morning in order to get flour and other food.
It was still dark.
Suddenly shots were said to have been fired.
According to the 27-year-old eyewitness, grenades were also said to have been fired.
The resident initially fled, but returned at daybreak, he reported.
When he returned, the Palestinian saw several corpses on the ground.
Residents transported injured people to a hospital on donkey carts, among other things.
This information could not be independently verified either.
UN: Gaza war is “carnage” – more than 30,000 dead
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has described the ongoing attacks in the Gaza Strip as “carnage”.
The Hamas-controlled health authority announced that 81 people were killed and 132 others injured in the past 24 hours alone.
Since the Israeli military offensive began in October, 30,035 people have been killed and 70,457 wounded.
Türk cited the death toll at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva and said tens of thousands were also missing and were probably buried under the rubble of their homes.
“This is carnage.”
Hamas figures cannot be independently verified.
However, the United Nations and other observers point out that the authority's figures have proven to be overall credible in the past.
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Thousands of tons of ammunition used
Israel has used thousands of tons of ammunition in densely populated residential areas in the Gaza Strip.
These include weapons that cause widespread damage, said Türk.
Such weapons produced a massive blast wave that could rupture human organs and cause deep burns.
“Over the past five months of war, the office has registered numerous incidents indicating war crimes committed by the Israeli armed forces, as well as indications that the Israeli armed forces targeted indiscriminately or disproportionately in violation of international humanitarian law,” Turk said.
Blocking aid deliveries and therefore using starvation as a method of war could, if carried out consciously, potentially be war crimes.
Türk appealed to both sides to recognize the humanity on the other side.
“It is people - Palestinians and Israelis - who are being cruelly harmed,” he said.
“Hamas created the battlefield in Gaza”
The Israeli ambassador defended Israel's actions.
Your country is at war against a terrorist organization.
Hamas created the battlefield in Gaza.
Because the fighters were hiding behind civilians, Israel had no choice but to attack there.
Israel is doing everything it can to comply with international humanitarian law, for example by warning the population about air strikes.
The Palestinian ambassador said children and women desperately lining up to get food were being bombed.
He accused Israel of genocide.
He condemned the October 7 attacks.
However, the calendar did not begin on October 7th.
Israel has been oppressing the Palestinians for decades.
The diplomats from dozens of countries in the room showed no reaction to the speech by the Israeli ambassador, who was in the hall of the UN Human Rights Council with two released hostages.
After the Palestinian representative's speech, however, there was long-lasting applause.
dpa