TWENTY people desperate to get food have been killed “amid a chaotic and dangerous surge” at an aid distribution site in southern Gaza.
Nineteen were trampled to death with one person stabbed in the “tragic accident,” the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said.
People mourn Palestinians who were killed in an incident on Wednesday at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis[/caption]
People mourn Palestinians who were killed in an incident on Wednesday while seeking aid in Khan Younis[/caption]
The GHF said it believed the harrowing surge was “driven by agitators in the crowd” who were affiliated to Hamas.
Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said it had received 10 bodies who had died due to “suffocation” after an aid site was shut by the GHF’s US private security contractors.
The GHF said the stampede was “driven by agitators in the crowd”, adding: “We have credible reason to believe that elements within the crowd – armed and affiliated with Hamas – deliberately fomented the unrest”.
A medical source at Nasser Hospital told AFP the victims were “heading to the aid distribution centre in northwest Rafah to receive food aid” but the main gate to the centre had been closed.
The GHF started its operations on May 26 after Israel had halted supplies into the Gaza Strip for more than two months, sparking warnings of imminent famine.
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