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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - JERUSALEM — At least 20 Palestinians have died and dozens have been injured after four trucks overturned in central Gaza on Tuesday, the Hamas-run civil defense agency has said.
The vehicles carrying humanitarian aid overturned onto a crowd of people in central Gaza after Israeli forces directed them down an ‘unsafe road’, local officials said.
Crowds reportedly moved toward the trucks, climbing on top, causing the drivers to lose control on the uneven roads, it added.
The incident occurred on Wednesday as large numbers of Palestinians gathered in central Gaza in search of food and basic supplies, amid an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis.
Local officials quoted by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said the vehicle overturned after Israeli forces directed it down what they described as an “unsafe road”.
Gaza Civil Defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that 20 people were killed and dozens were wounded in the incident while hundreds of civilians were waiting for aid, the AFP news agency reported.
“Despite the recent limited allowance of a few aid trucks, the occupation deliberately obstructs the safe passage and distribution of this aid,” the Gaza Government Media Office said in a statement.
“It forces drivers to navigate routes overcrowded with starving civilians who have been waiting for weeks for the most basic necessities. This often results in desperate crowds swarming the trucks and forcibly seizing their contents.”
Doctors at a hospital in central Gaza say they’re struggling to deal with the number of casualties brought in since last night - after reports of lorries overturning onto Palestinians.
A local transport association said 26 lorries were carrying goods for Gazan merchants – after Israel agreed to allow private imports for the first time in months.
Crowds of desperate people and local gangs appear to have surrounded the convoy as it travelled on a badly damaged road with one report saying that a rocket-propelled grenade was fired.
The incident comes as humanitarian organisations warn of famine and disease spreading across the enclave, while deaths from starvation and malnutrition continue to rise as Israel continues to severely restrict supplies of aid to the territory.
The UN says there are still massive food shortages in Gaza, blaming Israeli policies and the general lawlessness for difficulties picking up aid from crossings.
At least three people died from malnutrition on Wednesday, medical sources told Al Jazeera. A source at al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza confirmed that Hiba Yasser Abu Naji, a child, died from malnutrition. An infant also died from malnutrition, according to the source. An adult from Jabalia was also reported to have died as a result of malnutrition.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 188 people, including 94 children, have died from starvation and malnutrition since October 2023. — Agencies
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