nternational Desk News :: An Israeli attack targeting civilians who were waiting for aid southeast of Gaza City left at least 19 Palestinians dead, according to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health and its Media Office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Israeli occupation commits a massacre, killing 19 and injuring 23 civilians while thousands of citizens were waiting for flour and aid near Al-Kuwait roundabout,\u201d Gaza\u2019s media office said in a statement on Saturday (March 23).<\/p>\n
It said that the Israeli army and tanks opened fire with machine guns \u201ctowards the hungry people who were waiting for bags of flour and aid in a place far from posing any danger to the occupation\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mahmud Basal, the spokesman for the Civil Defence Department in Gaza, said there had been \u201cheavy shooting at civilians\u201d and victims had been transported to a nearby Ahli Arab Hospital.<\/p>\n
But with Gaza\u2019s healthcare system at near collapse, many were treated outside in the open air.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were very serious injuries, some of whom were injured by shrapnel. The reality is tragic, difficult and challenging,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Alaa al-Khudary, a witness at the scene, said that the Israeli forces shot at the crowd, leaving \u201cmany dead\u201d and leaving others injured while they tried to get \u201ca bite to eat\u201d for their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
nternational Desk News :: An Israeli attack targeting civilians who were waiting for aid southeast of Gaza City left at least 19 Palestinians dead, according to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health and its Media Office. \u201cThe Israeli occupation commits a massacre, killing 19 and injuring 23 civilians while thousands of citizens were waiting for flour and aid near Al-Kuwait roundabout,\u201d Gaza\u2019s media office said in a statement on Saturday (March 23). It said that the Israeli army and tanks opened fire with machine guns \u201ctowards the hungry people who were waiting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6240,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/6240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysylhetersomoy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}