Correspondent in Jerusalem
The international community is gripped with horror at the scale of the carnage that occurred during the hunger riot on al-Rashid Boulevard in Gaza.
During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, around a hundred Palestinians died and around 700 were injured when a humanitarian convoy arrived in the enclave.
Around 300,000 people live in the ruins of Gaza City, almost without any help.
The risk of famine is more imminent than ever.
It was hunger that pushed thousands of civilians to ransack a convoy of 30 trucks arriving in the city.
Dozens of them died in the crowd, some were crushed by trucks.
The Israeli army denies having fired on the convoy but admitted that tanks, whose crews would have felt threatened, fired on civilians.
The exact circumstances of this tragedy are not yet known.
But the condemnation of Israel, which militarily holds the north of the strip…
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