International community calls for ceasefire, investigation after Israeli shooting during aid distribution in Gaza. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers fired on a hungry crowd rushing toward humanitarian aid trucks in the northern Gaza City.
The toll is 115 dead and around 760 injured, according to Hamas. According to the UN, 2.2 million people, the vast majority of the population, are threatened with famine in the territory besieged by Israel. A famine “is almost inevitable, if nothing changes,” the spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) once again warned on Friday.