At least 100 people were killed and hundreds more were wounded when Palestinians rushing toward trucks loaded with humanitarian aid encountered fire in Gaza City early Thursday, according to local media reports.
The exact circumstances surrounding the deaths remain unclear; while several reports suggested Israeli troops fired on the crowd as they descended upon the trucks, the Israeli military suggested that most who died were trampled.Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra said at least 104 people were killed and around 760 were wounded, describing the incident as a "massacre.
He said there were not enough ambulances to collect all the dead and wounded and that some were being brought to hospitals on donkey carts.Dr Hussam Abu Safia, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, said emergency personnel are struggling to cope with the influx of patients. "Most of our patients are in critical condition, which requires urgent surgical intervention, but we have no operating rooms," Abu Safia told Al Jazeera."I stand helpless.
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