Gaza – Saba:
Australian doctor Ahmed Abu Sweid has confirmed that a number of Palestinian victims who were shot by Israeli forces on Sunday morning at an aid distribution center in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, received bullets to the head and chest.
The volunteer doctor in the emergency department at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis said in a short video posted by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza on its Facebook page: "We have only been here for a few days, and the extent of the shock I saw here is unlike anything I have seen before."
He added: "Today we have significant human losses, hundreds of confirmed wounded," according to Anadolu Agency.
Abu Sweid, an emergency medicine specialist, explained that the medical complex is "full," with paramedics facing a shortage of basic medical equipment.
He continued: "We have been here for days, but the doctors here have been facing the same situation for the past 200 days, and they are exhausted."
He confirmed that all the victims were "civilians who were asked to go to collect food, but ended up with live bullet and shrapnel wounds, and most of them are in critical condition."
Abu Suwaid stated that a number of the victims "arrived dead as a result of being shot in the head and chest."
The Government Media Office in Gaza announced in a statement that "32 Palestinians were killed and more than 250 others were injured since dawn on Sunday, including dozens in critical condition, in the city of Rafah (south) and the central Gaza Strip."
Earlier on Sunday, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said that "every martyr who arrived at hospitals had been shot once in the head or chest, confirming the Israeli enemy's insistence on direct and brutal killing of civilians."
By deliberately starving civilians, paving the way for forced displacement, according to the United Nations, Israeli forces have pushed 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza to starvation by closing the crossings for more than 90 days to humanitarian aid, especially food, according to the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip.
Far from the oversight of the United Nations and international relief organizations, the Israeli enemy began implementing a plan on May 27 to distribute humanitarian aid through the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation," an organization supported by Israel and the United States but rejected by the United Nations.
Aid is being distributed in the so-called "buffer zones" in southern Gaza, amid growing signs that this plan is failing. Distribution operations have been repeatedly interrupted due to the influx of large numbers of starving people, as well as Israeli forces' firing on crowds, resulting in civilian deaths and injuries.
With American and European support, the Israeli enemy army has been committing genocidal crimes in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, resulting in the deaths of 54,418 Palestinian citizens, the majority of whom are children and women, and the injury of 124,190 others. This remains a preliminary toll, with thousands of victims still buried under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulances and rescue crews.
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