Trump officials to inspect Gaza food distribution as death toll rises
Global News
At least 91 Palestinians were killed and more than 600 wounded while attempting to get aid in the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said on Thursday.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Israel on Thursday to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza, as the death toll of Palestinians waiting for food and other aid continued to climb. Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee will inspect food distribution in Gaza on Friday, the White House said.
At least 91 Palestinians were killed and more than 600 wounded while attempting to get aid in the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said on Thursday. This includes 54 people killed while awaiting food in northern Gaza near the Zikim crossing on Wednesday, the ministry said. The toll is expected to rise further as many of those killed or wounded were brought to isolated, undersupplied hospitals in northern Gaza and have not yet been counted.
The Israeli military said Palestinians surrounded aid trucks and the Israeli military fired warning shots into the crowd, but reported no awareness of injuries resulting from Israeli fire.
A security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity in line with military regulations said the gunfire came from within the crowd and resulted from altercations between Palestinians attempting to access aid.
Scenes of desperation and chaos played out again on Thursday as scores of Palestinians ran toward food aid dropped from the air in Zawaida, a city in central Gaza. Aid providers have turned to the skies as border crossings remain closed amid severe food insecurity across the Gaza Strip.
The drops have set off stampedes and skirmishes as hungry crowds scream, fight and jostle for the parcels.
Eslam al-Telbany, a displaced woman from Jabalia, said she was carrying a bottle of cooking oil and a sack of flour when she was attacked and bitten, ultimately dropping the items and returning home without aid.
“I went and my children prayed that I’d return with food. They haven’t eaten or drank anything for two days,” she said as she wept.
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