More than 100 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza City as they were waiting for food on February 29, right after the health ministry in the enclave announced that the death toll from the horrific war has surpassed 30,000.
30,035 people have been killed in Gaza so far, the ministry, which is run by the Hamas Movement, said in a statement, adding that the number of injured is over 70,457.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra noted that children, women and elderly people accounted for the majority of the victims in the Strip, with many of the victims still trapped under the rubble.
Soon after the latest death toll figures were published, at least 104 Palestinians were killed and 760 were injured when Israeli forces shelled a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid south of Gaza City.
Hungry civilians had swarmed around newly arrived aid trucks in the hope to get food, when Israeli tanks and drones started shooting at the people in al-Rashid Street in western Gaza City.
The government media office in Gaza, also run by Hamas, accused the Israeli military of killing the victims “in cold blood” as Israel was aware of their presence in the area “to obtain food and aid.”
“The occupation had the premeditated intention to commit this horrific massacre,” the office said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned what it said was a cold-blooded “massacre” in Gaza City. The ministry said the attack was part of Israel’s ongoing “genocidal war”. It also called on the international community to “urgently intervene” to forge a ceasefire as “the only way to protect civilians”.
The Israeli military, for its part, claimed that the fatalities occurred as a result of trampling and being struck by the aid trucks.
The military said that an initial investigation found that some Palestinians approached one of its checkpoints in Gaza City overseeing the entry of the aid trucks with soldiers firing warning shots and shooting at the legs of Palestinians who continued to move toward the troops.
The war on Gaza Strip broke out after the October 7 Hamas-led surprise attack on Israel. During the attack some 1,200 Israelis were killed and more than 200 others were captured and taken to the Strip.
The Israeli military has so far occupied vast parts of northern Gaza and some areas in the southern parts of the Strip. Despite international calls for a ceasefire and indirect talks with Hamas to release some 100 remaining Israeli hostages in the Strip, Israel is preparing to expand its offensive by attacking the southern area of Rafah.
More than one million Palestinians -roughly half of Gaza’s population- are said to be taking shelter in Rafah near the border with Egypt. Hamas has already warned that an attack on the region could lead to “tens of thousands” of civilian casualties.
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us and other nato countries are cheering the genocide of palestinians on while telling their citizens to look for russian spies under their beds and not shower more than once per month or putin will succeed in protecting ethnic russians in ukraine.
where are the weapons for palestinians to fight off the zionist occupation? when will palestinians be trained and equipped with f-16s and british and french cruise missiles and german and american tanks? where is the 200 billion dollars for palestine? that’s right the west has been completely exposed by their hypocritical outrage over ukraine.
the west doesn’t care because parasite muslims suck.
their own arab neighbor’s dont even want them.
they’re like blacks, they bring nothing positive, always looking for handouts while ruining everything they touch.
no one cares because the world is better off without them!
but you alexander the fuck sucks only shitty assholes.
what’s that smell,omg it’s the shit coming from your mouth.you should leave.
it seams that the jews have found “the final solution of the palestinian people”.
murder pure and simple
zionism = nazism 2.0 (zionism equated with fascism).
there are 2 main groups in the world, 1. pro-imperialism 2. anti-imperialist. once you get that in your head you can understand what is happening.
the nazis weren’t nearly as bad as this. they starved people (which isn’t that bad of a way to die) and put them in gas chambers mostly. maiming and slowly murdering people and forcing them to have surgeries without painkillers or anesthetics is much worse. the idf are scum who literally deserve worse than death.
if i ever meat and eye dee eff genocider i will stop them in the back, or will stop them in the throat, or will stop them in the heart or in the liver.
yeah right, you’ll do nothing but beg them for handouts because your people cant even feed themselves.
an utter failure as a race!
you anglo prick!
zionism is satanism by another name. what happens in gaza will happen anywhere they have power because they are the chosen people but chosen by satan
well, looks like satan is kicking the pedophile mohammads ass.
alexander talking, eating shit.
greenlight on zionists. israel has lost …face,body and soul. .you are the voice of israel writhing in the wind .
i’m not sure scumbag is a strong enough term
lmao!!
guess their allah ain’t so akhbar after all.
if they’re so hungry, they should eat their ugly ass children.
the world would be better off.
you’re a scumbag.
bleat all you want. zionism is done. palestine will once again belong to the palestinian people. it’s probably best to start some negotiation now.
why does so many believe in the muslim propaganda?
well, asshole, they are getting sober after 75 years of your propaganda now.
because you can’t fool all the people all the time .
yes everyone knows that the muslims control the media. most of what you hear about the conflict is actually muslim propaganda.
i look forward to the people involved in the genocide of gaza getting their comeuppance. calling them filth is being unduly rude to the trash can. the only people in israel i hope are spared are the ones involved in trying to stop this. even the blackwater mercs who gunned down civilians while driving through iraq for the hell of it (that the orange warpseed wailer pardoned) don’t have anything on this evil. or the watchers.
every single country should get together and whack these chosenite parasites out of their lands.
israel, the cancer in the region. absolutely disgusting pigs those jews are
the zionists are evil scum. i didn’t like them before but i tried to understand where they are coming from. now i see where they are coming from. they want to kill every man woman and child in gaza (and then they will do the same in the west bank). this is every bit as evil as what the nazis did in wwii.
f–king zionist isreali genocidal maniacs
blinken condems china for their uyghurs “genocide” – not a single dead. when israel massacres thousands of civilians – mouth is shut. wt f is wrong with this world? run by maffia with zero morals?
blatant genocide
the isreali apartheid regime is sick and badly needs a cure. this apartheid regime has lost any credibility it ever had. these chosen types will be seen for what they truly are, and probably what they always were….butchers and robbers. not even a monster pr campaign will paper over this crack.