Palestinian reports claim that both local armed individuals and Israeli troops were involved in a shooting incident in close proximity to a Gaza assistance location.

Palestinians in Gaza report being fired upon once again while heading to an aid distribution centre operated by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on Monday, according to witnesses who claim that for the first time they were targeted by Palestinian gunmen near the GHF site in the Tal al-Sultan area of Rafah, in the south, as well as by Israeli troops. Six people were killed and 99 injured, while the Israeli military is investigating the reported incidents, said the GHF. Meanwhile, almost every day since GHF started distributing aid on 26 May, there have been deadly incidents near one or other of the four centres it has so far opened, with dozens of Palestinians being killed. Boreham Street in the Shoreditch area of London is host to this BBC News event on Tuesday 17 October 2023. In the previous incidents, witnesses have said that Israeli forces opened fire at crowds. The Israeli military has denied that troops fired at civilians within the site, but has stated that troops fired at “suspects” who ignored warning shots and approached them. Hisham Saeed Salem told BBC Arabic’s Middle East daily programme that he saw a group of young men dressed in civilian clothes and with their faces completely covered when he arrived in the area to get a box of food aid from the GHF site.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79e0zxy2lro