According to the reports, dozens killed near the center of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on the third consecutive day of violence

At least 27 Palestinians were fatally fired and another 161 wounded on Tuesday while trying to reach a food distribution center in Gaza led by a controversial group backed by the United States, according to Hamas-Run Loop Ministry of Health It was the third day of mortal informed violence Near a humanitarian center led by the Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) backed by the United States and Israeli, a private organization accused by the United Nations of armed aid.

“We were surprised by the number of injuries. A horrible number,” an ambulance driver said when the injured were transferred to the Nasser hospital in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. “All injuries were directly at the head and chest. Many of them young people who went to help from the American Foundation.”

Little information about GHF operations. A source has told News themezone that it has used at least 300 American contractors, all strongly armed, who have been given “as many ammunition as they can carry.”

GHF said on Tuesday that his operations continued without interruptions in his four centers in Gaza, although he recognized the reports of violence, which as it took place, “far beyond our safe distribution site and area of ​​operations.”

In a statement, the Israeli army, who has taken control of a growing portion of Gaza in recent weeks, said that his troops had fired the warning shots near the help center on Tuesday morning, and that he was aware of the casualties and was investigating them.

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“During the movement of the crowd along the designated routes towards the aid distribution site, approximately half a kilometer [0.3 miles] From the site: the FDI troops identified several suspects that moved towards them, diverting from the designated access routes, “Israel’s defense forces said in a statement.” The troops carried out warning fire, and after the suspects did not retire, additional shots were directed near some individual suspects that advanced towards the troops. “

The FDI said that “it allows the American Civil Organization (GHF) to operate independently to allow the distribution of help to the residents of Gazán, and not to Hamas. FDI’s troops do not avoid the arrival of Gazan civilians to the humanitarian aid distribution sites.”

GHF said in a statement on Tuesday that he had distributed a total of more than 7 million meals since he began operations approximately one week ago, and that “the aid distribution was carried out safely and without incident on our site today.”

“We understand that the IDF are investigating whether several civilians were injured after going beyond the designated safe corridor and in a closed military zone. This was an area far beyond our safe distribution site and area of ​​operations. We recognize the difficult nature of the situation and advise all civilians who remain in the safe corridor when traveling to our distribution sites.”

Among those killed this week were repaid Akhras, an eight -year -old mother who was shot in her way to recover a help pack from a GHF center, her family said. A News themezone team in Gaza attended its funeral on Tuesday morning.

“You went to get us food, mom,” Akhras’s little daughter cried, sobbing for her body. “We will never forgive them, mom. Not in this life or in the next.”

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, described the situation in Gaza “inconceivable” and demanded a “rapid and impartial research on deaths around the GHF centers.

“The Palestinians have been presented with the best option: to die for hunger or risk being killed while trying to access the little food that is being made available through the militarized mechanism of humanitarian assistance from Israel,” Türk said in a statement on Tuesday. “This militarized system endangers lives and violates international standards on the distribution of aid, such as the United Nations have repeatedly warned.”

“The intentional impediment of access to food and other relief supplies that keeps life for civilians can constitute a war crime,” Türk said. “The threat of starvation, together with 20 months of civilians’ murder and destruction at a mass scale, repeated, intolerable forced displacements, dehumanizing rhetoric and threats by Israel’s leadership to empty the strip of its population, also constitute elements of the most serious crimes under international law.”

Imtiaz Tyab contributed to this report.

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