Gaza: Dozens are killed as they try to get food from distribution centres

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and hundreds injured as they waited to receive food at the controversial US and Israel backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centres in Rafah on 1 June.

Patients told Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff, who were treating wounded people at Nasser Hospital, that they had been shot at from all sides by drones, helicopters, boats, tanks, and Israeli soldiers on the ground.1

Mansour Sami Abdi, a father of four, told MSF, “People fought over five pallets. They told us to take food—then they fired from every direction. I ran 200 metres before realising I’d been shot. This isn’t aid. It’s a lie. Are we supposed to go get food for our kids and die?”

Mohammad Daghmeh, a 24 year old man who has been displaced, said, “I was shot at 3 10 am. As we were trapped, I bled constantly until 5 00 am. There were many other men with me. One of them tried to get me out. He was shot in the head and died on my chest. We …