“There were women, children, men who were there in the hope of having something to eat,” said this witness, the day after the death of around a hundred people during a food distribution. food aid to Gaza.
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“It was real carnage. It was madness, it was shooting in all directions”, confided to franceinfo on Friday March 1, a Gazan who was not far from Al-Rashid Street, in Gaza City, on Thursday, when the Israeli army opened fire on the crowd gathered for a distribution of humanitarian aid. At least 110 people were killed, according to Hamas.
“Some Gazans spent 24, even 48 hours on the beach, in the cold, waiting for these humanitarian aid trucks to arrive”affirms this witness, who estimates that there were between 20,000 and 25,000 people present at the time of the killing. “For five months, there has been nothing to eat in the north of Gaza. There were women, children, men who were there in the hope of having something to eat”he sighs.
In this drama, two versions oppose each other. On the one hand, Hamas claims that the Israeli army opened fire on the crowd. The other, Israelis recognize “limited shots” of soldiers who felt “threat“but put forward”a stampede during which dozens of residents were killed and injured, some run over by aid trucks“. The event sparked a wave of indignation across the world. “What is happening is indefensible and unjustifiable”notably denounced the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Séjourné, on France Inter.
