By Palestine Chronicle Staff
A new report by the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor shows the deaths of 563 Palestinians and the wounding of 1,523 others as a result of Israel’s attacks on other people waiting for aid, distribution centers and personnel guilty of organizing, protecting and distributing aid.
Released Wednesday, the report, “Killing Hungry Palestinians and Attacking Aid Trucks: A Deliberate Israeli Policy to Deepen Famine in the Gaza Strip,” documents incidents that occurred between January and March 23, 2024.
During this period, Euro-Med Monitor documented that another 256 people were killed in the Kuwait roundabout area, southeast of Gaza City, 230 on Al-Rashid Street, southwest of the city, and 21 due to targeted aid distribution centers.
The documentation also shows that 41 police officers and members of the People’s Welfare Committee overseeing aid distribution were killed, as well as 12 aid distribution workers, two of whom belonged to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA.
“Evidence suggests that Israel is committing these crimes in a planned manner, adding direct army attacks on humanitarian aid and civilians, as a component of a planned and comprehensive policy,” the report says. “This is transparent in view of the trend and regular, almost daily recurrence of such crimes committed through Israel, as well as the increased number of victims affected. “
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Euro-Med Monitor said that “one of the most damaging bureaucracies of the recent unlawful killings and executions by the Israeli army” against Palestinian civilians is “the systematic targeting of gatherings of civilians around humanitarian aid trucks with direct fire, quadcopters and Israeli tank shells. “”, at the Kuwait and Nabulsi roundabouts, south of Gaza City, nicknamed the “flour massacres”.
The report lists incidents of “starving civilians awaiting humanitarian assistance” attacked by Israeli forces, as follows:
On March 23, 2024, 30 Palestinians were killed and 80 others wounded after the Israeli army opened fire on those waiting for aid trucks near the Kuwait roundabout on the Salah al-Din highway, south of Gaza City.
On March 14, 2024, IDF forces opened heavy fire on thousands of civilians gathered near the Kuwait roundabout on the Salah al-Din highway south of Gaza City with tanks, helicopters and drones. The shooting left more than 80 people dead and 200 wounded, several of them in critical condition.
The next morning, Israeli military forces opened fire on citizens who returned to the scene in an attempt to recover the bodies of the victims. Many bodies were left on the ground overnight, as Israeli fire made it difficult to move them.
On 13 March, six Palestinians were killed and others injured while waiting for humanitarian aid to arrive at the Kuwait roundabout on the outskirts of Gaza City.
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On March 11, 2024, nine Palestinians were killed and others wounded after Israeli army forces opened fire on waiting for aid trucks at the Kuwait roundabout, southeast of Gaza City.
On March 9, 2024, at least two Palestinians were killed and 18 others injured when Israeli army forces attacked crowds of people waiting for help at the Kuwait and Nabulsi roundabouts in Gaza City.
On March 4, 2024, IDF forces opened fire on a crowd of civilians waiting for humanitarian aid at the Nabulsi roundabout, southwest of Gaza City.
On March 3, 2024, several more people were killed and injured after being shot while waiting at the Kuwait roundabout in Gaza City.
On March 2, 2024, a Palestinian was killed and more than 20 injured after being attacked while waiting for humanitarian materials on Al-Rashid Street in Gaza City.
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On February 29, 2024, another 118 people were killed and 760 injured on Al-Rashid Street, south of Gaza City, while waiting to be rescued.
On February 25, 2024, 10 Palestinians were killed and 20 others wounded after being attacked by IDF forces while waiting for aid trucks near the Nabulsi roundabout on Al-Rashid Street, southwest of Gaza City.
On February 7, 2024, five citizens were killed and several others injured when the Israeli army attacked an organization of other people waiting for humanitarian aid trucks at the Kuwait roundabout, west of Gaza City.
On February 4, 2024, the Israeli army opened fire on a group of people waiting for humanitarian aid trucks near the Kuwait roundabout.
On January 30, 2024, Palestinian civilians were reportedly shot and wounded at the Kuwait roundabout in Gaza City while trying to obtain humanitarian aid.
On 25 January 2024, 20 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and around 150 more were injured, many of whom are in critical condition. The patients were taken to Al-Shifa hospital and Al-Ahli hospital after the Israeli army opened fire on an organization of Palestinians waiting for aid trucks at the Kuwait roundabout in Gaza City.
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On January 22, 2024, the Israeli army fired artillery shells at a group of hungry civilians who had gathered on the Salah al-Din road, southeast of Gaza City, waiting for UN aid trucks, killing six more people and wounding several more.
On January 11, 2024, the Israeli army killed about 50 Palestinians and wounded dozens more when quadcopter jets opened fire on Palestinian crowds gathered to obtain quantities of flour loaded through UN trucks on Al-Rashid Street, west of Gaza City.
Euro-Med Monitor said that from all the documented incidents it is clear that “the IDF is deliberately starving as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza City and its northern areas. “
“This includes only the blocking of aid access to those spaces, but also the killing and wounding of civilians as they tried to obtain aid supplies, which obviously indicates an attempt to force citizens to evacuate to the central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip. as a component of Israel’s ongoing genocide against the population of the Gaza Strip,” the report says.
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The rights framework said: “Evidence that emerged in the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor’s initial investigations into the flour bloodbath at the Nabulsi roundabout on February 29 ‘confirmed complete Israeli involvement in the crime. ‘
“Many of those who suffered the bloodbath were wounded by 5. 56 x 45 mm NATO bullets; this is a type of bullet fired by IDF weapons,” the report says. “A pattern of two hundred dead and wounded revealed that they had indeed been hit by this type of bullet, which was discovered and tested at the scene of the bloodbath along with shrapnel found on the bodies of the wounded and dead. “
The document cites numerous testimonies from victims of the Israeli aggression, such as 23-year-old Bahaad Ziad Zidan Krezm of the Jabalia camp, one of the wounded Palestinians near the Kuwait roundabout on March 14.
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“All I was looking for was a sack of flour to feed my 24 family members and I was displacing other people living in our house,” he told Euro-Med Monitor.
“Before the Kuwait roundabout we got to a point where we were hoping to get to. As we got closer, shelling and gunfire broke out everywhere. “
Krezm added: “We saw other people fall in front of us due to the intense fire from the quadcopters and cars nearby. Despite the gunfire, I persisted in reaching for a sack of flour, and I did.
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He continued, “I immediately turned around, but before I could get up, I was shot in the back and fell to the ground. I was taken to Kamal Adwan Hospital. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a bag of flour nor did my circle of relatives still get hungry.
The shooting left more than 80 people dead and 200 wounded, some of them in critical condition. The next morning, Israeli army forces opened fire on citizens who returned to the scene in an attempt to recover the bodies of the victims.
According to the report, many bodies were left on the ground overnight as Israeli fire made it difficult to move them.
The 24-page report is divided into seven parts: the first deals with the number of casualties of humanitarian aid convoys, while the second looks at the most serious crimes involving attacking hungry civilians waiting for humanitarian assistance.
The third examines Israel’s humanitarian aid distribution centers, while the fourth sheds light on crimes such as those involving humanitarian aid convoys.
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The fifth deals with attacks on humanitarian aid workers, the sixth sheds light on attacks on those responsible for securing and protecting humanitarian aid, and the seventh deals with Israel’s attempts to evade duty by massacres.
The report presents a set of conclusions and recommendations.
Euro-Med Monitor said the report “calls for an independent investigation into the slaughter of starving people, in the horrific massacres for which Israel has tried to evade responsibility. “
(The Palestine Chronicle)
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