{"id":111244,"date":"2024-03-03T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=111244"},"modified":"2024-03-03T14:32:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T12:32:34","slug":"07-00-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=111244","title":{"rendered":"Army didn\u2019t strike aid convoy, IDF says after review"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Army didn\u2019t strike aid convoy, IDF says after review<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

UPDATE DESK Israel At War<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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“The majority of Palestinians were killed or injured as a result of the stampede,” said the IDF spokesman.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, March 3, 2024. Screenshot.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOur initial review has confirmed that no strike was carried out by the IDF towards the aid convoy,\u201d IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Sunday of the Feb. 29 incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last Thursday, Gazan civilians\u00a0mobbed<\/a>\u00a0trucks carrying humanitarian aid supplies, as seen by aerial footage released by the IDF.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of Palestinians were killed or injured as a result of the stampede,\u201d Hagari said.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Israel Defense Forces, residents surrounded the trucks on Al-Rashid\u00a0Street, southwest of\u00a0Gaza\u00a0City, and looted the supplies, with many Palestinians being struck by the trucks or crushed by the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n

The incident began at around 4 a.m. when some 30 trucks passed an IDF checkpoint to deliver food in Gaza City\u2019s Rimal neighborhood. Thousands of Gazans rushed the trucks after they passed the checkpoint, resulting in a deadly stampede.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gaza\u2019s Hamas-run Health Ministry reported that 104 people died and 280\u00a0were injured during the riot, with some reports giving a greater number of injured. The terrorist group is reportedly threatening to halt hostage negotiations over the incident, which it is calling a \u201cmassacre.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the IDF said only a handful were shot by Israeli soldiers as some in the crowd who rushed the last truck in the convoy then began moving towards Israeli forces tasked with coordinating the entry of aid into the Strip, in a way that endangered the troops.<\/span><\/p>\n

This prompted an officer stationed at the checkpoint to fire warning shots in the air, after which troops fired at the legs of those who continued to move towards Israeli forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the information we gathered from the commanders and forces on the ground, our initial review has indicated that following the warning shots fired to disperse the stampede and after our forces had started retreating, several looters approached our forces and posed an immediate threat to them,\u201d Hagari said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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