Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders said in a statement on Friday that more than 600 aid seekers were treated for injuries in northern Gaza after Israeli soldiers opened fire on them.
Caroline Willemen, MSF project coordinator in Gaza, said: “On 30 July, as people approached trucks distributing aid near Zikim, in north Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire on them.
“People were wounded in the gunfire and in the crush as crowds panicked and ran. Medical staff at the MSF-supported Sheikh Radwan clinic in north Gaza treated 77 injured patients and received eight people dead on arrival.
“Across north Gaza, nearly 600 people were treated for similar injuries following violence and chaos near Zikim that night, according to the Ministry of Health, as food trucks were passing.”
Willemen said such deadly incidents have become “a daily reality in Gaza for too long now” and the current methods of distribution are “engineering chaos and massacres” while Palestinians risk their lives in a desperate search for food.
