Israel targets Palestinians waiting for aid
Many of the wounded are in serious condition, with no capabilities to provide them treatment
Several Palestinians were killed and many others injured on Saturday as the Israeli army again targeted hundreds of people who were waiting for aid trucks east and west of Gaza City.
“A number of dead and wounded arrived at the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City after being targeted by Israeli drones while they were waiting for aid trucks to arrive in the areas of the Kuwait and Nabulsi Roundabouts,” medical sources told Anadolu.
They added that many of the wounded are in serious condition, while there are no capabilities to provide them with the necessary treatment.
This is not the first time that the Israeli army has targeted Palestinians while they were waiting for aid in Gaza City.
On February 29, Israeli forces opened fire on hundreds of Palestinians as they gathered south of Gaza City waiting to receive humanitarian aid on AlRashid Street, killing at least 118 and injuring 760 others, according to the Health Ministry in the
enclave.
Death toll climbs to 30,960
At least 82 Palestinians were killed and 122 others injured in the last 24 hours as Israel continues its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Saturday.
“The Israeli occupation committed 10 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 82 martyrs and 122 injured during the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement.
“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” the statement said.
“72% of victims of the Israeli aggression on Gaza are children and women,” it added.
Flouting the provisional ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel continues its onslaught on the Gaza Strip where at least 30,960 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and 72,524 injured since October 7, according to Palestinian health authorities.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.
The Israeli war on Gaza has pushed 85% of the territory’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
Israel is accused of genocide at the ICJ. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.
Hostilities have continued unabated, however, and aid deliveries remain woefully insufficient to address the humanitarian catastrophe.
Army storms refugee camp
The Israeli army stormed on Saturday the city of Tulkarm and the Nour Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, destroying infrastructure and shooting at an ambulance belonging to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
“A military force stormed the city of Tulkarm and the Nour Shams camp after midnight last night, and continued its operation until 8.30 in the morning (0630GMT) amid armed clashes,” eyewitnesses told Anadolu.
Military bulldozers accompanying the Israeli force destroyed the infrastructure, according to the witnesses.
They indicated that ‘ armed clashes broke out between army forces and residents’. “Israeli army soldiers opened fire randomly ... and attacked press crews,” the Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported.
“The occupation forces bulldozed an agricultural area containing greenhouses. They also destroyed the water line in the middle of Nour Shams camp, and an electricity transformer at its entrance, causing a power outage,” the agency added.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the Israeli army opened fire on one of its ambulances in the Nour Shams camp causing damage to the vehicle.
Social media users circulated a video clip of what they said was the detonation of an explosive device with a military bulldozer.