The report on this was handed over to the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, by the commander of the Southern Command, Yaron Finkelman.
“While the trucks were traveling to the distribution centers, a crowd of approximately 12,000 Gazans gathered around them and looted the equipment they were transporting.
During the looting, incidents occurred that caused significant harm to civilians as a result of stampedes and trucks running over people,” the IDF press service states.
At the same time, dozens of people moved within a few meters of nearby IDF troops and thereby “posed a credible threat to the forces at that location,” the army statement said.
The armed forces opened warning fire and also began shooting at the suspects to “eliminate the threat,” the press service notes.
Morocco previously demanded an investigation into the incident in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian civilians awaiting humanitarian aid in the north of the enclave were killed in an "attack by Israeli forces."
According to the IDF, dozens of Gazans died during the stampede and under the wheels of trucks that delivered humanitarian aid to the north of the enclave.
At the same time, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, announced “a bloodbath among civilians in Gaza.”