Safety collapses when desperate people are looking for food

Rushdi Abualouf, Gaza correspondent and Ellis Davis

BBC NEWS, Cairo and London

Reuters moved to the queue for food in a charity in GazaReuters

Mixed kids in line for food in a charity in Gaza

In the main city of northern gas there is a state of chaos, safety and robbery, where Palestinians are desperately looking for food and where help is difficult to access.

The Hamas Ministry of Internal Affairs, which conducted, said that seven police officers located on the Gaza market on Thursday were killed by an Israeli airline when they tried to resume order and resisting what he called “marauders”.

The Israeli military did not commented on the incident, but they said that there were “dozens of terror” over the past day.

Local doctors and rescuers said at least 44 people were killed in the territory, including 23 in the Bureij refugee central camp.

This comes a day after the UN World Food Program (WFP) said at least two people were shot as what called the “Horde Horde” stormed into their Central city of Deir al-Bala in search of food after 11 weeks of the total Israeli blockade. It was not unclear who opened the fire.

Almost 50 people were reportedly shot and injured when the thousands overcame the new assistance center run by the United States and the Israeli Humanitarian Gaza Fund (GHF) in the southern city of Rafa on Tuesday, a senior UN official reports. The Israeli military said the troops fired at the air warning, but not in the crowds.

Watch: It seems that the AFP shots show that people remove bags from the warehouse in the gas

On Thursday, police officers of the Interior Ministries, armed with Kalashnikov style rifles and pistols, came to the market near the Central Al-Sarai junction in Gaza, which houses a number of small stalls that sell canned food and vegetables.

Video distributed in the social media is too graphically to share, show bodies, blood and scattered on the ground, following the fact that the ministry stated that it was an Israeli attack.

“The Israeli security plane is aimed at a number of police officers … while they were committed to a marauder group earlier, which led to a martyr’s death of several officers and civilians in another massacre,” the statement said.

The BBC appealed to comment on the Israeli military about the incident.

A statement from the military on Thursday afternoon said that over the last day, the planes impressed dozens of goals, including “terrorists, military structures, observations and sniper posts that threatened to (Israeli) troops in the area, tunnels and additional terrorist infrastructure sites.”

In the gas, the increase in lawlessness, as Israel, began to aim at the police of the Ministry of Gaza last year, citing the role of Hamas management.

After the police chief and his deputy were killed during the strike in January, the ministry insisted that the force was a “civil defense agency”. The Israeli military has accused of “human rights violations and dissenters”.

On Thursday, there were reports of ordering the order elsewhere in Gaza, when desperate people searched for food and other materials.

One witness who went to the GHF help distribution center near Rafa said the BBC that thousands of people had gathered in the area from dawn, and that they broke through the site gates to try to get deliveries.

At 08:00 local time, according to the witness, the Israeli troops issued a warning through a four -footer who ordered people to head to the distribution center, and that they began to move toward the area.

“For exactly 10 minutes, everything was organized, but then the crowd broke through the gate and rushed into the yard.”

“People grabbed boxes and bags of flour and left, and all under the observation of the Israeli quadacle,” they added.

The GHF shots near the GHF site shows thousands of Palestinians walking near the center on Thursday morning. Some of them are in horses and other bicycles covered with goods.

Young people see for the most part that bags of flour are on their heads and back. It seems that one exhausted woman is fighting to walk among the crowd.

Abu Fauzi Farukh, a 60-year-old Palestinian man, who was on Thursday morning, told AFP that help deliveries were more difficult for the elderly and vulnerable.

“Young people are those who received help at first, yesterday and today because they are young and can carry cargo. But old people and women cannot enter the crowd.”

“We were humiliated, the Palestinian people were humiliated,” he added.

People described similar scenes on the recently open GHF distribution location in Central Gaza, and a number of BBC said they had gone empty -handed.

Umm Mohammed Abu Hajar said she had heard that she had been distributed in the area, so she took her certificate and went to see what she could get.

“I found all the people hungry,” she said. “So I couldn’t get anything. I left so … empty -handed.”

She said that in order to disseminate “fair” help, adding that “some people are eating and some.”

Crowds Reuters go to damaged buildings to receive assistance at the Humanitarian Fund mall in Gaza, known as the corridor in Central gasReuters

Crowds are looking for help in the American Place of Distribution GHF in Central gas

Another man, Hani Lunch, who was in the same distribution center, said he could not get help for him and his 10 family members.

“I came empty-handed and I left empty hands,” he said. “I’ll take the dirt to eat my children.”

The GHF noted that about 17 280 food boxes containing the equivalent of 997 920 dishes were distributed on Thursday in three operative distribution places.

“Operations will continue scaling, planning to build additional sites across the newspaper, including in the northern region, in the following weeks,” he added.

He also rejected reports of shot by Palestinians trying to get help in his centers. “No shots have never been fired,” the report said.

A new GHF assistance system bypasses the UN and requires Palestinians to collect food parcels with Distributed places protected by US security contractors in areas controlled by Israeli troops in the south and central gas.

The UN refused to cooperate with the system, saying it was unethical and effective.

The head of the UN Humanitarian Service in Gaza Jonathan Wittal said on Wednesday that GHF could not meet the needs of 2.1 million population and “essentially engineering deficit”.

US and Israeli governments have stated that the new system hindered the stolen Hamas’s assistance, which the armed group denies.

Card gas showing the location of Gazaid distribution sites (GHF) and the IPC number of people facing "catastrophic" Food security level in the coming months

On March 2, Israel introduced a complete blockade of humanitarian aid and commercial gas supplies and restored the military offensive in two weeks, completing a two -month ceasefire with Hamas.

It states that the steps are putting pressure on an armed group to release 58 hostages left in gas, at least 20 of which are considered alive.

On May 19, the Israeli military launched an extended offensive, said by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “to control all districts”. The next day he said that Israel would also ease the blockade and allow the “main” amount of food.

The other hostage families urged Netanyahu to agree on a new ceasefire from Hamas to ensure release.

On Thursday, the White House press secretary Carolina Levita said that the Israeli government “supported” a new proposal to cease the fire, which was sent to Hamas by a special envoy Steve Witco.

“Israel signed up for this proposal before she was sent to Hamas,” she said.

However, later a senior Hamas official told the BBC that the group rejected the proposal because it was contrary to discussions that they had with Vitco.

A spokesman said he did not guarantee that the temporary ceasefire would lead to a constant ending of the fighting, or Israeli troops had taken the positions they had held until March 2.

Israeli and US media referred to Israeli officials, who said Vitcoof’s proposal had the release of 10 live hostages and residues of dead hostages in two stages in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire and the release of a number of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

On October 7, 2023, Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack, which killed about 1,200 people and took 251 people hostage.

At least 54 2,49 people have been killed in Gaza since 3986 since Israel has restored its offensive, the Ministry of Health of the territory reports.

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