Efe Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Updated Friday, March 15, 2024-01:13
At least
20 Gazans died and around 155 were injured
in an Israeli airstrike that occurred around midnight on Thursday, again at the Kuwait roundabout in northern Gaza City, where they were awaiting the delivery of humanitarian aid.
"The number of deaths from the massacre at the Kuwait roundabout arriving at the Al Shifa Medical Complex increased to 20 and 155 injured," the Gaza Ministry of Health reported this Friday in a statement, after initially reporting 14 deaths.
According to sources on the ground, "Israeli fighter jets and drones launched volleys of gunfire and missiles against a crowd of
people waiting for the delivery of food
and relief supplies," details the Palestinian agency Wafa.
"The process of recovering the martyrs and evacuating the wounded continues," says the official statement, which warns that
the number of victims will increase
in the coming hours, and that many wounded are lying on the ground in Al Shifa.
This attack comes after nearly half a dozen similar recent incidents at the hands of Israeli troops.
Eight more Palestinian civilians were killed
Thursday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike on an aid distribution warehouse in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Wafa reported.
That same morning,
at least six Gazans were killed and another 83 wounded
after an Israeli attack again on the Kuwait roundabout, the designated place for the delivery of UN humanitarian aid destined for the north of the Strip and subject to the approval of the Israeli authorities.
On Wednesday, in an airstrike against a UNRWA aid distribution center in Rafah, five people died, and on February 29 - in what is now known as the "Flour Massacre" - 118 Gazans died, including victims of gunshot wounds, after Israeli soldiers opened fire on a hungry crowd.