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Emmanuel Macron expressed his “strongest condemnation” on Friday at the killing of dozens of Palestinians during an aid delivery in the northern Gaza Strip. Read our liveblog for the latest developments.
Issued on: 01/03/2024 – 02:16
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People mourn following an early morning incident when residents rushed toward aid trucks in Gaza City on February 29, 2024.
People mourn following an early morning incident when residents rushed toward aid trucks in Gaza City on February 29, 2024. © AFP
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At least 112 people were killed and at least 750 wounded as Palestinians gathered at an aid distribution point in northern Gaza on Thursday, the Gaza health ministry said.
Israel said many of the dead were trampled in a chaotic stampede for the food aid and that its troops only fired when they felt endangered by the crowd.
The Gaza health ministry said earlier that Israeli soldiers had opened fire on those gathered.
Families of hostages held in Gaza and their supporters are on a march from southern Israel to Jerusalem to demand the release of their loved ones.
Negotiators from the US, Egypt and Qatar are working on a framework truce deal that would see Hamas freeing some hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel and a halt in fighting.
At least 30,035 people have been killed and 70,457 wounded in Israeli strikes, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. Around 1,140 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.
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The Palestinian ambassador to the UN on Thursday pleaded for the Security Council to condemn the episode in Gaza that saw Israeli forces open fire on Palestinians scrambling for food aid.
“The Security Council should say enough is enough,” Riyad Mansour told reporters ahead of a closed-door meeting by the body, which came at the request of Algeria.
The meeting was held to discuss the morning’s events in Gaza, where Israeli forces opened fire on the Palestinians in a chaotic melee that the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said killed 112 people and injured 760.
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EU top diplomat says ‘carnage’ at Gaza aid delivery site ‘totally unacceptable’
European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell denounced late Thursday the killing of dozens of Palestinians during an aid delivery in the northern Gaza Strip, calling the deaths “totally unacceptable”.
“I am horrified by news of yet another carnage among civilians in Gaza desperate for humanitarian aid,” he said on social media platform X.
“These deaths are totally unacceptable.”
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Macron expresses ‘strongest condemnation’ of Gaza aid delivery deaths
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his “strongest condemnation” on Friday at the killing of dozens of Palestinians during an aid delivery in the northern Gaza Strip.
“Deep indignation at the images coming from Gaza where civilians have been targeted by Israeli soldiers,” he said on social media platform X.
“I express my strongest condemnation of these shootings and call for truth, justice, and respect for international law.”
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Yesterday’s key developments:
At least 112 people were killed and at least 750 wounded as Palestinians gathered at an aid distribution point in northern Gaza on Thursday, the Gaza health ministry said.
New Zealand on Thursday listed Hamas in its entirety as a terrorist entity and imposed travel bans on “extremist” Israeli settlers for committing violent attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.
France said on Thursday the shooting of more than 100 Palestinians as they waited for an aid delivery was “unjustifiable” and all light had to be shed on the incident.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned a deadly incident in northern Gaza on Thursday “in which more than a hundred people were reportedly killed or injured while seeking life-saving aid,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”.
The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.
In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published final death tolls based on its own research into medical records. The UN’s counts have largely been consistent with the Gaza health ministry’s, with small discrepancies.
For more on the Gaza health ministry’s tolls, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)
For more on the Gaza health ministry’s tolls, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP, Reuters)
