GAZA CITY: Competing claims emerged after scores of individuals have been killed Thursday (Feb 29) in a scramble for help in Gaza, with the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry saying Israeli forces shot them, however the military insisting they died in a stampede.
Here’s what we all know up to now:
DID ISRAELI TROOPS OPEN FIRE?
A witness in Gaza Metropolis advised AFP the violence unfolded when hundreds of individuals determined for meals rushed in direction of help vehicles on the metropolis’s western Nabulsi roundabout.
“Vans stuffed with help got here too near some military tanks that have been within the space and the group, hundreds of individuals, simply stormed the vehicles,” the witness stated, declining to be named for security causes.
“The troopers fired on the crowd as individuals got here too near the tanks.”
The well being ministry within the Hamas-run Gaza Strip stated 112 individuals have been shot lifeless and 760 have been wounded.
Hossam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza Metropolis’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, stated all of the casualties have been hit by “bullets and shrapnel from occupation forces”.
