Hospitals in Gaza report the killing of more than a dozen people, eight of them food-seekers, by Israeli fire today as Palestinians endured severe risks in their search for food amid airdrops and restrictions on overland aid delivery.
Near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site, Yahia Youssef, who had come to seek aid this morning, describes a panicked scene now grimly familiar.
After helping carry out three people wounded by gunshots, he says he looked around and saw many others lying on the ground, bleeding.
“It’s the same daily episode,” Youssef says.
In response to questions about several eyewitness accounts of violence at the northernmost of the Israeli-backed American contractor’s four sites, the GHF media office says “nothing [happened] at or near our sites.”
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