Three trampled to death at central Gaza bakery, hospital says

A child and two women were trampled to death in a stampede at a bakery in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah today, the hospital that received the bodies says.

The IDF has not issued any comment on the incident.

Two women and “a young girl, died in front of a bakery in Deir al-Balah as a result of a stampede while trying to buy bread,” Deir al-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Hospital says in a statement.

“The crowding and pushing were intense in front of the bakery. Suddenly, there was loud screaming, and they fell to the ground, suffocated by the stampede, including a young girl,” one eyewitness tells AFP.

“I don’t know what happened,” Osama Abu Luban, father of the girl who died, tells AFP.

“I went to the market with my daughter. She went to buy bread, and she barely managed to get a loaf of bread before being swept away by the crowd of women. They brought her out a lifeless body,” he says.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.