(PatriotSpotlight.org) – The Middle East Eye has reported the Hamas-run Health Ministry’s claims that Israeli forces have killed Palestinian civilians and police officers behind food distribution efforts in the Gaza Strip. MEE claimed an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday left 23 people at Gaza City’s Kuwait roundabout dead. Israeli authorities say the deaths were a result of armed Palestinians opening fire on civilians awaiting aid. Among the fatalities were alleged members of freshly launched people’s committees responsible for organizing aid distribution, including Amjad Abhat, head of West Gaza City’s “emergency committee”.
Gazan tribal leaders have attempted to collaborate with local police and intervene to regulate the influx of aid trucks into northern Gaza, forming a “people’s protection committee” to try and ensure the safe delivery of aid to northern Gaza over the weekend.
On Tuesday, two police officers were also reportedly killed: Raed al-Banna in Jabalia and Mahmoud al-Bayoumi in Nuseirat. Al-Bayoumi, who heads up the area’s police department, met his demise alongside four others when their vehicle was reportedly bombed outside a building owned by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
The UNRWA agency is tasked with providing aid and assistance to Palestinian refugees in the region but has been accused of involvement in the October 7th massacre and other terrorist links. Faiq Mabhouh, a police officer and director-general of the territory of police operations, was allegedly killed by Israeli forces on Monday during a raid on Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital, during which 90 Hamas fighters were allegedly killed and a spate of arrests was made. Israeli troops first stormed the hospital last November, alleging its use as a Hamas command center.
These incidents come amid Israel’s ongoing war with terror groups controlling the Palestinian coastal territory. On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that the Gaza Strip’s two million plus residents are experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity” and that famine could unfold by May if the war continued. According to Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, 222 humanitarian aid trucks were inspected and transferred to the Gaza Strip in March. 18th. Over the last 3 weeks, more than 150 trucks were transferred to the northern Gaza Strip, most by the private sector.
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