Chaos and gunfire after month of Gaza aid plan

Month after the beginning of controversial distribution of assistance in American and Israeli, the BBC checking dozens of video records shows repeated shooting incidents near people who travel help, as well as other moments of chaos and panic.

In several analyzed videos, shooting can be heard and there is a number showing dead or injured Palestinians.

According to Hamas-Run Health Ministry of Health, in the past month, more than 500 people on the way to get assistance and 4,000 injured – a huge majority is blamed with the Israeli fire of gazani officials and medical and medical facilities.

BBC Verify did not find videos that allow the final assessment of who is responsible for the wave of murders, but the entire image is one of the confusion and constant danger.

In statements in the past month, the Israeli defensive forces (IDF) said that they fired “warning recordings” to individuals who described as “suspects” or said they set up a threat.

IDF said that the BBC checks that Hamas works “everything in its power to prevent the success of food distribution in Gaza, trying to hinder help and directly harm the citizens of Gaza Strip.”

18. Maja Israel announced partially alleviating his 11-weekly help in Gaza that said it was intended for pressure on Hamas to release hostages.

The IDF built four places to distribute assistance – three in the far southwest of Gaza and one in the central gauze from the Israeli Security Zone known as the Netzarim Hall – who began working 26. May.

These locations in IDF control areas – known as SDS 1, 2, 3 and 4 – manage security contractors working for the Humanitarian Gaza Foundation (GHF), with the Israeli army, providing routes for them and perimeters. On Thursday, the American state announced $ 30 million (£ 22 million) in the funding of GHF – the first known direct contribution to the group.

From the beginning, the UN condemned the plan, saying that “Militarizir” will help the existing distribution network and forces the trips to make long journeys through dangerous territory to get food.

Within the day of the start of the plan, dozens of Palestinians were killed in special incidents 1. And 3. June, sparkling international conviction. Since then, it has been near daily reports of killings of people traveling to collect help.

Idf said his “forces carry out systematic learning processes aimed at improving operational responses in the field and minimizing possible friction between population and IDF forces”.

The Government’s spokesman David Menčer called the reports of people killed while receiving “another untruth”. “There were no hundred people who die.”

GHF denied that there was a “incident or fatal case on or near” any of its distribution locations.

On Tuesday, the Red Cross said that his field hospital in Raf had to activate his mass actions 20 times from 27. May, and the majority of patients who suffer wounds from shooting and saying they were on the way to the place of help.

The UN and its world food program, as well as other providers help continue to distribute help in Gaza, but they say they rely on Israeli authorities to facilitate their missions.

The UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights said that the murder of Palestinians who try to access assistance was a “probable war crime”. The International Lawyer for Human Rights Sara Elizabeth Dill said that the BBC confirmed whether there was a deliberate targeting civilian, it could be a serious violation of international law.

“Mass shootings during civilian mitigation approach violates basic rules against targeting civilians and use of hunger against them, it is potentially increasing in war crimes,” she said.

Three videos, one of which was published 9. June, hundreds of people showed, and some who made them empty bags of flour, hiding over a pile of ruins and hiding in the goats. Several automatic shots bursts can be heard.

On that day, the Hamas Ministry of Health reported that the morning of six people were killed while seeking help and more than 99 injured. The next day, 36 deaths related to assistance and more than 208 injuries have reported.

It is not possible to check if any of these victims was the result of a shooting that could be heard in the recording.

We could confirm that videos were taken from about 4 km (4 km) northwest of SDS4, on the way to the place in the central Gaza.

Audio analysis of Shots from Steve Beck, former FBI consultant who is now launching Beck Audio Forensics, said one of the weapons sounded as well as the Maching Gund and M4 Ascult rifle. Another gun, G. Beck said, fired the speed that was “compatible” with the sound AK-47. We cannot determine that the weapon shot, but FN Minimis and M4S is also IDF usually use, while AK-47 usually use Hamas and other groups in Gaza and other groups.

In the recording the next day, 10. June, and filmed nearby, it was seen that it was more crowded in Panica as a panic, as well as the sound of shooting, and then heard what sounds like an explosion, heard in the distance. Occumible and bloody people, including children, then saw them take them.

GHF has folders that show “secure passages” to their sites and communicate opening times via whatsapp and social media.

Each paragraph has a “start point” and “stop” and “stop” with Palestinians that GHF said GHF was provided by the IDF, unless they could cross these stops, unless they cross it.

But in the SDS4, there was no safe passage planned for people coming from the north.

There were also killings near Ne-GHFs with GHF.

Verified recordings from 17. June showed at least 21 bodies and several injured people on the road where several vehicles were parked, including a severely damaged truck flat platform truck.

Witnesses told the BBC that IDF drones and tank fired the crowd as they waited to collect help.

The IDF’s statement has recognized that he identified the “gathering” of people “in addition to the distribution of aid assistance trucks in Khan Yunis and close to IDF troops working in that area.”

It was said, “IDF is aware of the report on a large number of injured persons from the Idf fire after the approach of the crowds”. It expressed regret due to “any damage to the insincere individuals” and said that the incident details were in the examination.

Gaza’s spokesman’s Hamas Agency for Civil Defense, said at least 50 people were killed on the scene.

The video shows a series of dead around the scorch mark on the field, including one person who exploded their legs.

Mark Cancian, from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, noticed the lack of obvious impact, but said that the scope of damage probably the result of “a lot of direct fires”.

Another video set 16. June, which we verified, shows that the horse on the carriage was withdrawn in Al-Rashid Street in North Gaza, the main coastal road and often use convoys to help.

The inscription next to the video claims that these Palestinians were killed while waiting for help.

The next day, several photos and videos that we verified were published on social media that shows the body that wore several men on a wooden palette on the same path.

GHF claimed that many alleged incidents associated with convoys and distribution sites for other groups, including the UN. They said that these were additional supplies that “looted criminals and bad actors”.

The GHF spokesman said that in the whole “satisfied” with its first month, operations, with 46 million meals, distributed two million gases, but it was aiming to increase their capacity.

IDF said that between other changes are installed fences and characters and open additional routes.

“We have raised concern [with the IDF] About maintaining a secure passage for help seekers, but unfortunately, some attempted to take dangerous shortcuts or travel during limited time, “said GHF spokesman.

“In the end, it is a solution to more help, which will create greater safety and less urgency among the population.”

Additional reporting and verification by Paul Brown, Emma Pengelli, Lamees Altalebi, Richard Irvine-Brown, Benedict Garman, Alek Murrai, Kumar Malhotra and Thomas Spencer.