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The Ministry of Health of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip announced that the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Thursday night in Gaza City on a crowd of Palestinians who were waiting for humanitarian aid to arrive, resulting in 14 martyrs and at least 150 wounded.
The ministry said in a statement: “14 martyrs and 150 injuries have arrived at Al-Shifa Medical Complex so far (...) as a result of the Israeli occupation forces targeting a gathering of citizens waiting for humanitarian aid to relieve themselves at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza.”
She added, "What happened at the Kuwait Roundabout indicates the occupation's premeditated intentions to commit a new, horrific massacre."
At Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, Dr. Muhammad Ghorab, the official in charge of the hospital’s emergency and reception department, told AFP that “most of the injuries are in the abdomen and upper parts.”
He added that the martyrs and wounded fell "as a result of the occupation forces firing directly at them when they gathered at the Kuwait Roundabout to wait for aid trucks to obtain food in light of the famine spreading in the northern Gaza Strip."
For his part, a photographer cooperating with Agence France-Presse reported that he saw many martyrs and wounded on the spot, some of whom had their limbs amputated and others who were hit by bullets.
According to the Government Information Office in Gaza, the Israeli occupation army “targeted with tanks and helicopters those waiting for flour at the Kuwait roundabout.”
In response to a question from Agence France-Presse, the Israeli occupation army did not immediately comment on this information.
The United Nations warns that 2.2 million people are threatened by famine in the Gaza Strip.
Several countries are seeking to adopt new mechanisms and paths to deliver aid, including airdrops and the inauguration of a sea corridor from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip.
Relief agencies say that trucks entering the Gaza Strip do not meet the minimum needs and that the occupation is hampering them due to exhausting inspections and its siege imposed on the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the war. AFP