The Israel Defense Forces says it carried out strikes on two groups of terrorists operating on a route used to transport humanitarian aid in Gaza earlier this morning.
“All of the terrorists who were eliminated were Hamas terrorists who planned to violently take control of humanitarian aid trucks and transfer them to the Hamas terrorist organization,” the IDF says in a statement. “The strike was intended to allow the humanitarian aid to reach the residents of the Gaza Strip safely.”
“We emphasize that the IDF did not attack humanitarian aid trucks and that the aid truck transit route remained open and active,” the military says.
Hamas-run authorities had earlier claimed that the strikes hit guards who were securing the trucks.
Seven guards were killed in a strike in Rafah, while another strike left five guards dead in Khan Younis, spokesman Mahmud Basal of the Hamas-run Gaza civil defense agency told AFP.
The Israeli military has said that attacking and stealing aid is an ongoing problem, especially in southern Gaza. COGAT, the military body in charge of humanitarian aid to Gaza, has said convoys are attacked by Hamas terrorists and known crime families.
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