By NO fewer than 47 persons were injured, largely due to gunshots fired by the Israeli military, during chaotic scenes at a new aid distribution centre in Gaza, a senior UN official has said.
Thousands of Palestinians rushed into the centre run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on Tuesday, AFP journalists reported, as Israel implemented a new distribution system that bypasses the UN.
The incident in Rafah came days after the partial easing of a total aid blockade on the Palestinian territory that Israel imposed on March 2, leading to severe shortages of food and medicine.
“From the information we have, there are about 47 people who have been injured” in the incident, Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office in the Palestinian territories, told the UN correspondents’ association.
He added that “most of those injured are due to gunshots” and based on the information he has, “it was shooting from the IDF,” the Israel Defence Forces.
Sunghay stressed that his office was still assessing and gathering information on the full picture of events.
Credit: AFP
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