ReutersAt least 20 people were killed in a crush in a help distribution center in southern Gaza led by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), supported by the United States and Israel, according to the organization and a local hospital.
The GHF said that 19 had been trampled on to death and one was stabbed “in the middle of a chaotic and dangerous” push “on its site in the region of Khan Younis. He added that he believed that people “armed and affiliated with Hamas” were the troubles.
But the government’s media office managed by Hamas in Gaza denied the complaint and accused the GHF of trying to “hide” a crime.
The Nasser Hospital of Khan Younis said that he had received the body of 21 people who died of suffocation due to the inhalation of tear gas and a crushing on the aid site.
This is the first time that the GHF has confirmed deaths on one of its help sites.
The government’s media office has accused American private security entrepreneurs, who distribute aid for GHF, of having caused crushing by closing the doors of the site after thousands of people gathered in narrow canals to collect food, then dismissing tear gas cans and lifelong tours.
In a graphic video shared on social networks and verified by the BBC, a standing witness on a cart filled with bodies of six boys and men from Nasser said that they had been crushed between fences installed on the GHF website while waiting for food documents.
“These are children. What is their fault by dying help?” The man shouts as he holds the body of one of the boys.
“What happened is [that] At the door of help [site]Foreigners have made a fence here and a fence here, “he gave sign.” The boys went to the front and people came and walked on it. “”
There have been almost daily reports of the death of the Palestinians while asking for help since the start of GHF operations at the end of May. Witnesses say most of them were slaughtered by Israeli forces.
The United Nations Human Rights Office said on Tuesday that it had so far recorded 674 murders near the four GHF sites in the South and the Gaza center in the past six weeks. Another murder had been recorded along the United Nations roads and other convoys of aid, he added.
Before Wednesday, the GHF had denied that there had been fatal incidents near its sites and accused the UN of the use of “false and misleading” figures of the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas of Gaza.
The Israeli army said last week that it had recognized that there had been incidents in which civilians had been injured and that it worked to minimize “the possible friction between the population and the population [Israeli] Forces as much as possible “.
The GHF uses private security entrepreneurs to distribute sites help in Israeli military areas.
The UN refuses to cooperate with him, describing his configuration as contrary to ethics.
