“The truck overturned while hundreds of civilians were waiting for food aid in the area of Nousseirat, in the center of the Gaza Strip,” Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.
“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.
“Despite the recent limited authorization of a few aid trucks, the occupant (Editor’s note: Israel) deliberately hinders 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.
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.
