When horror is added to horror. While “hundreds of civilians were waiting for humanitarian aid” in Gaza, a truck carrying food overturned on the crowd, reported the spokesperson for civil defense, Mahmoud Bassal. Twenty people died in the accident that occurred overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.
“The truck had been forced by the Israeli army to take dangerous roads, which had previously been bombed” and were in poor condition, he explained.
“Desperate crowds”
“Despite the recent limited authorization of a few aid trucks, the occupier deliberately obstructs the safe passage and the distribution of this aid. It obliges drivers to take overloaded routes of hungry civilians who have been waiting for weeks for basic necessities, “the government of Gaza, under the authority of Hamas, in a statement on Wednesday morning.
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This “deliberate and criminal behavior often ends with desperate crowds that rush on the trucks and seize their content by force,” said the government, also reporting 20 civilians killed and dozens wounded. Questioned by AFP, the Israeli army indicated to check this information.
