On Saturday, the African Union (AU) accused Israel of the “mass killing of Palestinians” and called for an international investigation. We condemn the attack, “in which more than a hundred Palestinians were killed and wounded in search of life-saving humanitarian assistance,” said a statement from the AU on the online service X.
The chairman of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, is calling for an international investigation into the incident to bring the perpetrators to justice, it said. An “immediate and unconditional ceasefire” is also called for.
“Wantful attack”
The heads of Jerusalem’s Christian churches also made serious accusations against the Israeli military. In a joint statement on Friday, they condemned a “wanton attack on innocent civilians.” Church leaders cited unnamed eyewitnesses to the incident. Accordingly, Israeli soldiers opened fire on a Palestinian crowd that wanted to receive food in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning. This account of what happened corresponds to information from the Islamist terrorist group Hamas.
According to Hamas, more than a hundred people were killed early Thursday in the city of Gaza when Israeli soldiers opened fire on a crowd distributing aid.
An Israeli army official acknowledged a “limited” number of shots fired by Israeli soldiers who felt “threatened.” According to him, thousands of residents surrounded the trucks, dozens of people were injured and killed in the crush, and some were knocked over by trucks. The UN World Food Program (WFP) had previously warned that there was a risk of famine in the northern Gaza Strip if nothing changed. Most recently, the USA announced its own aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip.
