Israeli strike kills six Gazans waiting for aid

Published March 15, 2024
Aid shipments bound for Gaza are sniffed by a dog at a border crossing in Israel, on Thursday.—AFP
Aid shipments bound for Gaza are sniffed by a dog at a border crossing in Israel, on Thursday.—AFP

CAIRO: Israeli bombardment killed six Palestinians late on Wednesday as crowds awaited aid trucks in Gaza City, health ministry officials said.

Palestinians were rushing to get aid supplies at the Kuwait roundabout in the city’s north when Israeli forces struck the area.

The crisis in Gaza has displaced most of the enclave’s 2.3 million people and there have been chaotic scenes and deadly incidents at aid distribution points as desperately hungry people scramble for food.

On Feb 29, Israeli forces shot dead more than 100 Palestinians as they waited for an aid delivery near Gaza City.

In Al Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, eight people were killed in an Israeli air strike that hit an aid distribution centre on Thursday.

In Deir Al Balah, also in central Gaza, an Israeli missile hit a house, killing nine people, Palestinian medics said. Residents said Israeli aerial and ground bombardments continued overnight on areas across the enclave, including in Rafah in the south, where over a million displaced people are sheltering.

The large number of deaths and injuries, as well as the widespread destruction and displacement of nearly all of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are among actions that the World Court has said could amount to genocide.

The health ministry said on Thursday Israeli military strikes across Gaza Strip had killed 69 Palestinians and wounded 110 others in the past 24 hours.

Published in Dawn, March 15th, 2024

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