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Israel slaughters more starving refugees

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Israeli forces kill 67 Palestinians seeking aid in northern Gaza, Hamas-run ministry says

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had "fired warning shots" and disputed the number of reported deaths.
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"The UN World Food Programme said its 25-truck convoy "encountered massive crowds of hungry civilians which came under gunfire", soon after it crossed from Israel and cleared checkpoints."

"In Gaza City, Qasem Abu Khater told AFP he had attempted to get a bag of flour but instead found a desperate crowd and "deadly overcrowding and pushing".

"The tanks were firing shells randomly at us and Israeli sniper soldiers were shooting as if they were hunting animals in a forest," he said.

"Dozens of people were martyred right before my eyes and no one could save anyone."

The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) condemned violence against civilians seeking aid as "completely unacceptable".
 
"But testimony, satellite imagery and verified video compiled by the Financial Times show how for the likes of Jihad and much of Gaza’s 2.1mn population, the scheme has only deepened their desperation, forcing hungry Palestinians into a dangerous journey from which many never return.

Israeli forces have repeatedly attacked Palestinians travelling to the GHF’s centres, according to local authorities. More than 500 people have been killed, Gaza’s health ministry has said, and thousands injured.

Many of the casualties have been shot on the designated approach routes to the sites, which GHF publishes in maps on its Facebook page."


 
"The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) condemned violence against civilians seeking aid as "completely unacceptable".

But there's nothing Israel likes better.
 
    • 19 July 2025
At least 32 Palestinians seeking food have been killed by Israeli gunfire near two aid distribution points close to Khan Younis and Rafah in southern Gaza, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
Dozens were also injured near the two sites run by the controversial US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), it said.
The GHF said there were no incidents "at or near" their sites, but that there had been "Israel Defense Forces (IDF) activity" hours before their sites were due to open.
One eyewitness told the Reuters news agency that the Israeli gunfire seemed "targeted to kill".
The Palestinian ministry of health said a number of bodies were taken to nearby Nasser hospital on Saturday morning.
There are almost daily reports of Palestinians being killed while seeking aid since the GHF began operations in late May. Witnesses say most have been shot by Israeli forces.
The IDF told the BBC that in the latest incident, troops fired warning shots to prevent "suspects" approaching them, saying the incident happened before the aid sites opened.
Mohammed Al-Khalidi, speaking to Reuters, pointed the finger at the Israeli army for the attack.
He said he was part of a group of Palestinians who had been told the GHF aid distribution centre was open, but when they arrived tanks began moving towards them and opened fire.
"It wasn't shots that were to scare us or to organize us, it was shots that were targeted to kill us, if they wanted to organize us they would have, but they meant to kill us."
The GHF uses private security contractors to distribute aid from sites in Israeli military zones. Israel and the US say the system is necessary to stop Hamas from stealing aid. The UN refuses to co-operate with it, describing it as unethical and saying no evidence has been offered of Hamas systematically diverting aid.



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"On 15 July, the UN human rights office said it had so far recorded 674 killings in the vicinity of the GHF's four sites in southern and central Gaza over the past six weeks.

Another 201 killings had been recorded along routes of UN and other aid convoys, it added.

The GHF denies that there have been any deadly incidents in close proximity to its sites and accused the UN of using "false and misleading" figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. The ministry's figures are widely seen as a reliable count of bodies seen by Gazan hospitals.

Israel does not allow international news organisations, including the BBC, to send journalists into the territory."

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"The UN also said this week that the number of acutely malnourished children has doubled since Israel began restricting food entering the territory in March. Despite the creation of the GHF significant amounts of aid, including baby formula, is still being blocked at the border.

On Friday, the director of one field hospital said in a statement that they had an unprecedented influx of patients suffering from severe exhaustion, emaciation and acute malnutrition.

So far, 69 children have died from malnutrition during the increasing humanitarian crisis, according to the Hamas government media office."
 
Israel continues to use starvation of the civilian population as a weapon of extermination.

""The UN also said this week that the number of acutely malnourished children has doubled since Israel began restricting food entering the territory in March. Despite the creation of the GHF significant amounts of aid, including baby formula, is still being blocked at the border."
 
    • 13 July 2025
Ten people, including six children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza on Sunday, emergency service officials say.

Their bodies were sent to Nuseirat's al-Awda Hospital, which also treated 16 injured people including seven children, a doctor there said.
Eyewitnesses said a drone fired a missile at a crowd queuing with empty jerry cans next to a water tanker in al-Nuseirat refugee camp.

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JohnD said:
"On 15 July, the UN human rights office said it had so far recorded 674 killings in the vicinity of the GHF's four sites in southern and central Gaza over the past six weeks.
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It must be obvious by now that the GHF is either complicit in these deaths or at least completely unfit to distribute aid to vulnerable people.

As had been pointed out, these deaths at aid distribution sites didn't happen when impartial professionals were in charge.
 
Vinty said:
It must be obvious by now that the GHF is either complicit in these deaths or at least completely unfit to distribute aid to vulnerable people.

As had been pointed out, these deaths at aid distribution sites didn't happen when impartial professionals were in charge.
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Goons Having Fun.
They've started using pepper spray, i hear, just to add some seasoning to the Jewish Genocide.
 
Odds said:
Goons Having Fun.
They've started using pepper spray, i hear, just to add some seasoning to the Jewish Genocide.
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Calling them Nazis is an insult to Nazis.
If Hitler were alive today (he would probably be very old) but he would be mortified that his name was being associated with Netanyahu.
 
JohnD said:
The GHF denies that there have been any deadly incidents in close proximity to its sites and accused the UN of using "false and misleading" figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry
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If thats the case, then why don't the Israelis allow an oversight of these aid distribution sites by an impartial and independent body to find whats really going on.
 
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