‘Difficult to verify what happened’ during deadly Gazan aid truck rush • FRANCE 24 English

‘Difficult to verify what happened’ during deadly Gazan aid truck rush • FRANCE 24 English

This is a classic situation in which it is very difficult to verify exactly what happened there are two different uh version two different versions of events the Hamas run Health Ministry saying at least 107 people were killed the alifa hospital which is just nearby in Gaza City saying at least 50 people were

Killed what we know is that it happened very early this morning it was still uh dark after the arrival of an aid Convoy in uh a western part of Gaza City we know we were talking about this just yesterday very little Aid has gotten into the northern Gaza Strip over the

Last few uh weeks now what the IDF claims happened they say that there were two incidents here in the first they say uh groups of people scrambled to get Aid they rushed towards the trucks began fighting to get their hands on the aid they say that the majority of people who

Died did so because there was a stampede they were crushed trampled even ran run over by some of the supply vehicles that made up uh that Convoy uh then the IDF says that a little bit later several hundred meters away it says its troops uh opened fire on a crowd because the

People continued moving towards their troops despite warning shots and refused to to to turn around uh that is of course stands in complete contrast to what Hamas is saying Hamas is saying that Israel is entirely responsible for the deaths of all of these uh people uh

Either way what we do know is that it will be a very long time before we do get to the truth of the matter before we find out exactly what happened if we ever if we ever do now we heard a reaction a short while ago Andrew from

The US president uh Joe Biden saying that uh all this that just transpired will uh complicate current efforts to reach a ceasefire deal what what are the reactions where you are well let’s start with the the military reaction the IDF saying that it is investigating uh it says that it will

Try and find a solution to prevent this from happening again uh there hasn’t been a massive amount of political reaction here just yet that’s because many people waiting for the results of that initial IDF probe we have heard from the farri security minister in the Israeli government here that’s itar Ben

G he said that the IDF should stop delivering Aid to Gaza because he says it was endangering solders lives now of course the Palestinians you know utter condemnation coming from them listen to this uh the from the office of the Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas calling it an

Ugly Massacre carried out by the Israeli Army this will of course inevitably push both sides further apart and it will inevitably make it much harder for them to both sit down at the table and try and reach a ceasefire deal

Thousands of Palestinians flocked to an aid distribution point early Thursday, desperate for food amid Gaza’s looming famine, only to be met with lethal chaos. By mid-afternoon the Hamas-run health ministry said more than 100 people were reported dead and blamed Israeli troops, but there were conflicting reports on what exactly unfolded in the hours before dawn. A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office said many of the dead were crushed by the trucks themselves. “It is difficult to verify exactly what happened,” says FRANCE 24 reporter Andrew Hilliar, reporting live from Jerusalem.

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