The garbage media is running with Hamas propaganda today after Palestinians died overnight (their daytime) during chaos that surrounded food trucks.
Take for instance this headline and story from CNN: “More than 100 killed as Israeli forces open fire in chaos at Gaza food lines, Palestinian health ministry says”
More than 100 people were killed in chaotic scenes in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire, triggering panic as hungry Palestinian civilians were gathering around food aid trucks, Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses said.
People had swarmed around newly arrived aid trucks in western Gaza City in the hope of getting food, when Israeli forces started shooting, according to witnesses. Many of the victims died when they were run over by trucks in the chaos, according to one account
The Gaza Health Ministry is Hamas and the media knows this. Yet they keep using it as a good source even though they know Hamas lies, as they did last year when a terrorist rocket hit a parking lot outside a hospital and Hamas claimed the IDF bombed it and killed thousands.
I could cite other examples but let me tell you what really happened via the IDF:
During the early morning delivery of humanitarian aid trucks to the northern Gaza Strip, a violent gathering of Gazan residents developed around the trucks, who looted the equipment that arrived. During the gathering, dozens of Gazans were injured as a result of being crushed and trampled. The details of the event are under review.
And now via FDD:
Palestinians mobbed aid trucks admitted to the northern Gaza Strip on February 29, leading to a lethal stampede. The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry said more than 100 people died in the incident at Nabulsi roundabout in western Gaza City, casting the carnage as a result of shelling by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
But the IDF released aerial footage showing thousands of civilians overrunning aid trucks, creating multiple crushes at the site. Some of the Palestinian drivers panicked and rammed into the crowd, causing fatal injuries, the IDF said, adding that at a nearby location, Gazan terrorists also used live fire in the course of looting some of the aid. At another location, the IDF said, troops fired at Palestinians who approached them after having ignored warning shots. The aerial footage showed no heavy military ordnance being used.
Despite the repeated theft of humanitarian aid by Hamas, which has either diverted the goods to its holed-up fighters or sold them on the black market to fund the terrorist group’s war effort, Israel has been enabling increased shipments in the hope that some will still reach needy civilians. There has also been a recent increase in the air-dropping of aid by various countries, a method designed to reduce the risk of goods being pillaged en route.
Below is the IDF video referenced above and you can clearly see mobs and mobs of Palestinians all around and on top of these food trucks:
תיעוד אווירי של המבצע להכנסת סיוע הומניטארי לצפון רצועת עזה, המראה כיצד ההמון פלסטיני התנפל על המשאיות וכתוצאה מכך נהרגו עשרות מצפיפות, דוחק ודריסה>> pic.twitter.com/a7DqU9kKFB
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) February 29, 2024
Yes, there was IDF gunfire to protect themselves from Palestinians who refused warnings, but there was also terrorist gunfire as they looted trucks in nearby locations. From the way it sounds, it was these trucks and trampling by the mob that likely killed most of the dead.