More than 31 Palestinians were killed and 150 injured by Israeli fire on Sunday as they went to receive food at an aid distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in Gaza Witnesses said that Israeli soldiers opened fire as they headed toward the aid distribution site in Rafah.
The foundation claimed in a statement that it delivered aid 'without incident' and denied accounts of chaos and gunfire around its sites but the Israel Defense Forces said its initial findings show its forces 'did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the aid centre' and 'the reports are false and fabricated'.
The Red Cross confirming it was treating many wounded and had recovered the bodies of 23 Palestinians and mobile phone footage shows people running and ducking, with gunfire audible in the background.
Doctors at the Nasser hospital reported chaotic scenes, with dozens of bodies being brought in with most injuries were shot in the upper parts of the body, the head, chest, and abdomen.
Australian doctor Ahmed Abu Sweid says there was a “mass casualty event” today and describes the hospital as overwhelmed, with medical supplies running out.
'These are all civilian casualties that were asked to go to an aid centre to collect food, and ended up presenting with gunshot wounds, shrapnel wounds' he says. 'Most of them are critical. Some of them arrived dead on arrival'.
The United Nations has called the distribution in Gaza 'a death trap' but as yet, nothing from the continued backers of Israels abhorrent genocide funnily enough.
The end to the regime in Palestine and Israel came not come soon enough, hopefully ending with Netanyahu and his cronies in the dock of the Hague.