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Gaza Strip: Aid arrives in dribs and drabs, shots fired at a distribution point in the North
At least 20 Palestinians were killed and more than 150 injured Thursday when Israeli soldiers fired at a crowd waiting to receive humanitarian aid in Gaza City, the Gaza Health Ministry said. 'enclave.
Humanitarian aid which still remains insufficient in Gaza.
By road, trucks enter slowly.
They are controlled by the Israelis before entering the Palestinian enclave.
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Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid blocked in front of the Nitzana checkpoint, March 14, 2024. © Murielle Paradon/RFI
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Around thirty trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are blocked in front of the Nitzana checkpoint, says our special correspondent in Nitzana, on the border between Israel and Egypt,
Murielle Paradon
.
Under a blazing sun, the drivers wait, idle.
Mohamed Mahmoud is one of them, he is a Palestinian citizen of Israel or an Israeli Arab.
His cargo comes from Jordan, he explains.
He went to pick her up at the Jordanian border to bring her back to southern Israel, to another border, that with Egypt.
“
The crossing point is here.
We enter with his truck.
We transfer our goods to another truck which comes from Egypt and which undergoes an inspection.
Then he leaves for Rafah.
»
Rafah in Egypt then entry into
Gaza
.
But to get there, the road is long and strewn with pitfalls.
Mohamed Mahmoud has already been blocked for up to six days in Nitzana because of demonstrations by Israeli extremists who want to prevent the passage of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
“
I am not against the protesters;
they have no solution to get their hostages out of Gaza,
he testifies.
But it is not possible to block the passage all the time.
There, in Gaza, there are also innocent people who need help.
They have the right to eat, you have to bring them the food
!
»
“
The demonstrators benefit from the sympathy of the Israeli police
,” accuses the driver.
“
It is she who decides whether or not to unblock the passage of trucks.
Humanitarian aid for Gaza is subject,
he says,
to the goodwill of the Israelis
.
»
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Israeli army denies attacking crowd waiting for help
The Israeli army denied early this Friday March 15 that it had attacked a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid in the north of the Gaza Strip, it said in a statement.
The Hamas Health Ministry reported 20 dead and more than a hundred injured in “
Israeli fire
” on a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip.
“
Israeli occupying forces targeted a gathering of citizens waiting for humanitarian aid (at a Gaza City roundabout, editor’s note).
The toll of victims transported to al-Chifa hospital was revised upwards to 20 dead and 155 injured
,” declared the ministry which earlier reported 14 deaths.
On site, at the hospital, an AFP collaborator saw numerous ambulances transporting remains and gunshot wounds.
The UN fears widespread famine in the territory besieged by Israel, particularly in the difficult-to-access north, where around 300,000 people currently live.
Ship loaded with supplies from Cyprus expected to arrive off Gaza
While the UN says it fears widespread famine in Gaza because the Israeli army is only allowing aid to enter in dribs and drabs, a first boat that left Cyprus on Tuesday morning is arriving on the shores of the strip. from Gaza.
It tows a floating platform loaded with nearly 200 tonnes of foodstuffs.
This platform should facilitate docking on the pier being built in Gaza by the on-site teams from the NGO World Central Kitchen.
Our correspondent in Lebanon,
Sophie Guignon
, was able to reach the project manager, Juan Camilo Jimenez, by telephone from Cyprus.
“
On board, our teams are progressing well, the weather conditions are good.
Everything is in order.
The preparation for the arrival is going well, our employees are ready for that, the pier will be completed to receive the floating platform and the boat which will arrive there.
We have a distribution plan.
We've been doing this for over four months, so we understand what the needs of the people in Gaza are, where to go, who to work with there.
Of course we will have all the necessary logistics on arrival, trucks and people, everything to set up this distribution.
This boat is loaded with nearly 200 tonnes, we are talking about around 500,000 meals.
World Central Kitchen is already preparing a second ship, which will launch very soon.
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