The official Wafa News Agency reported that the incident occurred this morning on Al-Rashid Street, when the army opened fire with machine guns on thousands of people who were in dire need of food.
He explained that 57 dead and more than 254 wounded were transferred to Al-Shifa Medical Complex, although he explained that the number is so high that it exceeds the ability of medical teams to treat these cases.
20 bodies and 160 wounded were transferred to Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, and more than 90 wounded were transferred to Al Awda Medical Center in Jabalia.
He added that the planes bombed several residential squares in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, which also led to dozens of deaths and injuries.
WAFA reported that at least 25 citizens, most of them children and women, were martyred in another attack on the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps.
According to the World Food Programme, residents of the coastal enclave are suffering from “unprecedented levels of despair,” while the United Nations has warned that 2.2 million people are on the brink of famine.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization also recently warned that Gazans are being affected by unprecedented levels of food insecurity and acute hunger.
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