Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says five workers killed in attack
At least five Palestinians working for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial aid group backed by the United States and Israel, were killed late Wednesday when the bus they were traveling in came under attack, the organization said in a statement.
The GHF, which began distributing food aid barely two weeks ago from sites in the southern and central Gaza Strip, said the team of about two dozen staff were attacked about 10 p.m. local time while traveling to a distribution center west of Khan Younis. “Some of our team members may have been taken hostage,” the statement said.
It blamed the attack on Hamas, the militant group that ruled Gaza, but did not offer evidence. There was no immediate comment from Hamas or its military wing.
As many as eight may have been killed in the attack, according to a person familiar with operations at the distribution sites inside Gaza, who called the workers “heroes.” A number were left wounded, and others were apparently kidnapped by the attackers, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk about the fast-unfolding events.
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War crimes?
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A unit of Gaza’s Hamas-run police force said it killed 12 members of an Israeli-backed Palestinian militia after detaining them early Thursday. An Israel-supported aid group, however, said the dead were its aid workers, eight of whom were killed when Hamas attacked their bus.
It was not immediately possible to verify the competing claims or confirm the identities of those killed. The militia, led by Yasser Abu Shabab, said its fighters had attacked Hamas and killed five militants but made no mention of its own casualties. It also accused Hamas of detaining and killing aid workers.
The deaths were the latest sign of turmoil surrounding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a private contractor that Israel says will replace the U.N. in distributing food to Gaza’s more than 2 million people. The past two weeks, dozens of Palestinians have been killed and hundreds wounded in near daily shootings as they try to reach GHF centers, with witnesses saying Israeli troops nearby have repeatedly opened fire.
On Wednesday, at least 13 people were killed and 170 wounded when Israeli forces fired toward a crowd of Palestinians near a GHF center in central Gaza, according to al-Awda Hospital, which received the casualties. The military said it fired warning shots overnight at a gathering that posed a threat, hundreds of meters (yards) from the aid site.
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Wait. No one is screeching about this "genocide" being committed against humanitarian food providers?! 