The French Minister of Foreign Affairs called this Friday, March 1, for an independent investigation into the death, announced by Hamas, of more than 110 people during an aid distribution in Gaza after Israeli fire.
“I want to be very clear today, we will ask for explanations and there will need to be an independent investigation to determine what happened
,” Stéphane Séjourné said on France Inter radio.
While acknowledging
“limited fire”
from Israeli soldiers feeling
“threatened”
, an army official reported
“a stampede during which dozens of residents were killed and injured, some run over by the trucks. 'help"
.
This tragedy, recognized American President Joe Biden, will complicate the ongoing talks to establish a truce in the Palestinian territory ravaged by nearly five months of conflict and threatened by famine.
It came on the day Hamas announced that more than 30,000 people have been killed there since the start of the war.