Reuters Palestinians mourn people who were killed in an incident at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid distribution centre in Khan Younis, at Nasser hospital, southern Gaza) Reuters.
Casualties from the incident were brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Twenty people trying to get food have been killed “amid a chaotic and dangerous surge” at an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says.
Nineteen were trampled to death and one was stabbed in the “tragic incident” at the GHF’s site in the Khan Younis area, a statement said, adding that it believed the surge was “driven by agitators in the crowd” who were affiliated to Hamas.
It was not immediately possible to verify the report. However, Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis earlier said it had received the bodies of 10 people who were killed due to “suffocation” after an aid site was closed by the GHF’s US private security contractors.
The UN human rights office said that 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.
The Israeli military said last week that it recognised there had been incidents in which civilians had been harmed and that it was working to minimise “possible friction between the population and the [Israeli] forces as much as possible”.
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