Israel denies Palestinian claim forces killed Gazans awaiting aid
- Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says 29 people died in two incidents on Thursday
- Israeli military say it is assessing the violence ‘with the thoroughness that it deserves’
At least 29 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Gaza’s health ministry said. The Israeli military said the reports are “false”.
In the first incident, Palestinian health officials in the Hamas-ruled strip said eight people were killed in an air strike on an aid distribution centre in Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Later, at least 21 people were killed and more than 150 wounded by Israeli gunfire at a crowd awaiting aid trucks at a northern Gaza roundabout, Gaza’s health ministry said.
Mohammed Ghurab, director of emergency services at a hospital in northern Gaza, told Agence France-Presse there were “direct shots by the occupation forces” on people waiting for a food truck.
An Agence France-Presse journalist on the scene saw several bodies and people who had been shot.
In a statement, Israel’s military denied attacking aid centres.