Gaza’s civil defense agency said Wednesday that 20 people were killed when an aid truck overturned on a crowd of aid seekers in the central Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
“Twenty people were killed and dozens injured around midnight last night in a truck carrying aid overturned… while hundreds of civilians were waiting for aid,” the agency’s spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP.<\/p>\n
The incident took place near the Nuseirat refugee camp, as the truck was driving on an unsafe road that Israel had previously bombed, Bassal added.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military told AFP it was looking into the reports.<\/p>\n
Hamas accused Israel of forcing truck drivers to take dangerous routes to reach aid distribution centers, and to “intentionally engineer… starvation and chaos.”<\/p>\n
Israel “forces drivers to navigate routes overcrowded with starving civilians who have been waiting for weeks for the most basic necessities,” Hamas’s media office said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“This often results in desperate crowds swarming the trucks,” it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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