More Than 20 Gazans Killed Waiting for Aid, Palestinian Authorities Say
More than 20 Gazans were killed as they made their way to a U.S.-Israeli aid distribution center, Palestinian health authorities said, the latest violence in a chaotic rollout of a new assistance program.
Crowds of hungry Gazans making their way to an aid distribution center in southern Gaza on Sunday morning were fired on by what appeared to be Israeli forces, said witnesses who spoke to The Wall Street Journal. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said it evacuated 23 dead and 23 injured people from the area.
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