32 Palestinians shot dead trying to reach US group's food distribution sites, Gaza authorities say
Source: AP
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Updated 4:11 AM CDT, July 19, 2025
DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) Israeli troops opened fire Saturday toward crowds of Palestinians seeking food from distribution hubs run by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed group in southern Gaza, killing at least 32 people, according to witnesses and hospital officials.
The shootings occurred near hubs operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which launched operations in May. The U.S. and Israel seek to replace the traditional U.N.-led aid distribution system in Gaza, asserting that Hamas militants siphon off supplies. The U.N. denies the allegation.
While the GHF says it has distributed millions of meals to hungry Palestinians, local health officials and witnesses say that Israeli army fire has killed hundreds of people as they try to reach the hubs. GHFs four sites are in military-controlled zones.
Israels army, which is not at the sites but secures them from a distance, says it only fires warning shots if crowds get too close to its forces. The military on Saturday said it fired warning shots near Gazas southernmost city of Rafah after a group of suspects approached troops and ignored calls to keep their distance. It said the incident occurred overnight when the distribution site was closed.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-ghf-mideast-war-e3eead77195dc9c4dd07ac5fe640d00e

sad. 😪
Kid Berwyn
(21,339 posts)They set up a blind near the water hole and shoot the animals when they come in for a drink.
I'd say, "Same thing," but it's not. Palestinians are people who don't deserve to be murdered, like their neighbors occupiers the Israelis.
nowforever
(559 posts)niyad
(125,298 posts)brush
(60,608 posts)with killing just a few Palestinians at a time as they know some will brave coming to the aid sites to get food because they are starving, and can therefore be picked off at leisure.
Such 'valiant' and patient war criminals.
Linda ladeewolf
(970 posts)Israel should be ashamed. They are becoming what they hated and feared.
AloeVera
(3,274 posts)Starting with banning the UN, reducing the number of aid hubs by 99% and continuing with every other negation of humanitaran principles especially the militarization of aid in the hands of the occupying army.
Everything the UN warned about has come true. But instead of admitting GHF is a total failure and a humanitarian catastrophe has unfolded - and allowing the UN to take over and save lives - I'm sure there are people very much celebrating its "success".
Because GHF was never more than another tool, a very important one, in the ethnic cleansing toolbox.
Beastly Boy
(13,043 posts)Bloodlust! Ethnic cleansing! Bait! Another tool in the ethnic cleansing toolbox!
Does anyone pay attention to the simple math anymore?
Even if accounts of the ubiquitous "local health officials and witnesses" are to be taken for granted as god's honest truth, even if the definition of ethnic cleansing is to be flushed down the toilet, even if the concept of baiting is to somehow account for kills half a mile away from the bait, even if the obvious absurdity of such baiting and the logistics involved in it is to be totally disregarded, how can one escape the reality of simple math?
The article states, and I quote: "While the GHF says it has distributed millions of meals to hungry Palestinians, local health officials and witnesses say that Israeli army fire has killed hundreds of people"
This amounts to roughly one death per 10,000 (ten thousand) meals distributed. A totally absurd and prohibitively lavish ratio. What kind of a reality defying ignoramus would come up such patently idiotic plan? What kind of a moron ethnic cleanser wannabe would approve of and implement such inanity? What kind of an inept hunter would not scoff at such wanton waist of bait?
Ridiculous!
AloeVera
(3,274 posts)
The ethnic cleansing is not in the killing of aid seekers, which is just plain murder.
It is in creating the "impossible-to-stay-alive-in" conditions that will make the ethnic cleansing unavoidable and "necessary".
Eventually, after the murder of many more food and water seekers and tent and rubble-dwellers, Palestinians will realize that to stay in Gaza is a death sentence. At which time they will decide to "voluntarily" leave.
That this was the plan all along and tools like the systematic, long-standing obstruction of aid, the demolition of all homes and infrastructure, and the deliberately non -humanitarian GHF were put in place to help carry out that plan - is what makes the coming "voluntary emigration" -- to no less than the hellholes of the world -- ethnic cleansing.
So glad I could clear that up for you.
Beastly Boy
(13,043 posts)your source is. By any chance, are these your own descriptions, and are you quoting yourself as a competent authority on the subject?
If you want to clear anything up, it would help to cite your sources. On the other hand, if you don't, putting anything in quotation marks doesn't add any credence to what you are saying, and sadly, I cannot rely on you clearing things up in this case.
Likewise, I cannot seriously address your latest reply unless you can make understandable references to what you are talking about. Is it still ethnic cleansing? Or is it some other unrelated creative theory? Are you its author, and if so, why is there such conspicuous absence of Israeli hostages or their captors in it? Why is there no mention of Hamas leaders who are on record bragging about creating... how did you put it? Oh yeah, "the "impossible-to-stay-alive-in" conditions" for Gazan civilians?
In fact, I noticed this conspicuous absence in the vast majority of your posts. How do they consistently end up playing no role in your theories?
Stargleamer
(2,461 posts)you frequently seem to express doubts here on DU on the accuracy of these reports of these slaughters.
Beastly Boy
(13,043 posts)There is a reason for it. While I find none of the available sources for casualty numbers in Gaza particularly trustworthy, my trust or mistrust doesn't matter anyway. It is the responses to the OP I am commenting on. The header of my post should have been sufficient to establish this.
Of course I doubt the accuracy of the numbers that presume all casualties in a war zone to be civilians and to be caused by only one belligerent side of the armed conflict between several warring armies. This proposition is ridiculous on its face, but it is an entirely different ridiculous proposition that I am talking about here.
In anticipation of your deflection I also stipulated that my post loses none of its cogency "even if accounts of the ubiquitous "local health officials and witnesses" are to be taken for granted as god's honest truth". So you may presume whatever you wish about the accuracy of the cited sources, and whatever your presumption may be, it will have no effect on the point I am making.
And, getting back to my point, it has to do with the absolute absurdity of conspiracy theories about IDF setting up a bait, or a trap, or a "kill zone", or otherwise creating conditions to commit ethnic cleansing by distributing millions of meals to Gazan civilians.
cabotnn22
(138 posts)Amazing how some of the people appalled have said nothing about the ACTUAL genocide going on in Syria - you know, the one where Christians and Druze are being slaughtered? As per usual, no Jew, no news.
red dog 1
(31,457 posts)AloeVera
(3,274 posts)this sociopath...is why all those children are dead.
I hope they haunt his nightmares and those of his fellow repuke sociopaths for the rest of their miserable days.
Polybius
(20,532 posts)
walkingman
(9,568 posts)FirstLight
(15,489 posts)I mean I know the UN has issued arrest warrants or whatever but Jesus isn't there something somebody can do? Of course I'm sure there's people saying that about us here in the United States.. so much evil and hatred and violence still in this world.
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iemanja
(56,261 posts)Israel doesnt care. Netanyahu is already facing charges of genocide at the ICC.
Beastly Boy
(13,043 posts)I wonder why nobody thought of this yet.
cliffside
(1,043 posts)what could go wrong?
cliffside
(1,043 posts)the population is being pushed to those aid stations leaving a good portion of beachfront property in the north.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-cease-fire.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE8.IUCA.1GfLrc3RhbpA&smid=url-share
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-gaza-riviera-echoes-kushner-waterfront-property-dreams-2025-02-05/
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