France wants an independent inquiry into the deaths of scores of Palestinians during an aid delivery in the northern Gaza strip, the country’s foreign minister has said, AFP reports.

“We will ask for explanations, and there will have to be an independent probe to determine what happened,” Stephane Sejourne told the France Inter broadcaster after Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians scrambling for food aid in a chaotic incident that the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said killed more than 100 people.