UN reports more than 24 attacks on Gazans awaiting aid since January

The United Nations human rights office has documented more than two dozen attacks on Gazans awaiting desperately needed aid since January, as hunger spreads to the result of the almost complete siege of Israel, preventing most food and water from entering the small enclave.

The office did not blame any part for the wave of attacks as people wait for help. In a number of UN reports and statements, the office has documented at least 26 such attacks since mid-January.

They include the attack on Thursday evening against hundreds of waiting Palestinians. at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City for an expected convoy of humanitarian trucks. Gaza health officials accused Israeli forces of carrying out a “targeted” attack on the crowd that killed 20 people, and three witnesses described shelling at the scene.

The Israeli army blamed the Palestinians. gunmen for the bloodshed and said it was continuing to examine the episode. He said a "thorough preliminary examination" had revealed that no "tank fire, air strikes or firearms attacks were carried out against Gaza civilians at the humanitarian convoy", without specifying if his forces had opened fire.

This is at least the tenth such incident in March in which people were killed or shot while waiting for help at roundabouts from Kuwait or Nabulsi, according to the United Nations. These are the two main southern entrances to Gaza City, where the few humanitarian aid trucks entering northern Gaza from the south arrive.

During the deadliest incident, more than 100 Palestinians were killed. killed and many others injured when Israeli forces opened fire around a convoy in Gaza City in late February. Witnesses said Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians who rushed toward aid trucks.

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