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In Gaza, a food aid truck overturns and kills 20 people, Israel has been finger (photo showing Gazaouis on a humanitarian aid truck at Beit Lahia on July 29, 2025)
Gaza – Home or trying to get food. The Civil Defense of Gaza reported the death of twenty people in the accident of a food truck which turned on the crowd on Tuesday night to Wednesday, August 6. “The truck overturned while hundreds of civilians expected food aid in the area of Nousseirat, in the center of the Gaza Strip”The 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”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 ”accused the government of Gaza on Wednesday under the authority of Hamas.
Ce “Deliberate and criminal behavior often ends with desperate crowds that rush on the trucks and seize their contents by force”explained the government, also reporting 20 civilians killed and dozens of injured.
Questioned by AFP, the Israeli army indicated to check this information.
A situation “Devastating”
An official of doctors without borders (MSF) in Gaza, Caroline Willemen, described a humanitarian situation on Wednesday “Devastating for the inhabitants” of the territory, with a “Multiplication by four of patients in our malnutrition program since May”.
“In addition to that, we continue to see patients get shot or crush on the aid distribution sites”she deplored in a message on social networks.
“Our teams receive an increasing number of malnourished patients while they themselves struggle to find enough food. Among the screenings carried out in MSF establishments in July, 25% of children aged 6 months to 5 years and pregnant or breastfeeding women were malnourished ”she detailed.
More than two million Palestinians besieged
“The persistent hunger crisis in Gaza will not be resolved by army -controlled aid distribution models. A humanitarian response in principle, led by the UN, must be restored immediately “pleaded the MSF coordinator.
Since the start of the war, Israel has been bewitten by more than two million Palestinians piled up in a territory of 365 km2. At the end of May, he relaxed the total humanitarian blockade in late May which he imposed in early March but only authorizes the entry of very limited quantities.
The Gaza Strip, totally dependent on humanitarian aid, is now threatened with a “Generalized famine”according to the UN, which estimates that at least 1,373 Palestinians were killed, most of them by Israeli fires, since May 27 “While they were looking for food.”
