The Gaza Ministry of Health said that tear gas was dismissed on Wednesday on crowds of the Palestinians at the Khan Younis aid center.
At least 21 Palestinians were killed during the last carnage of the GHF Aid Distribution Center in southern Gaza, most of the victims would have died in a stampede.
The Gaza Ministry of Health has challenged the allegation of the controversial organization supported by the United States and Israel that the armed agitators were responsible for the incident on the Khan Younis site on Wednesday morning.
In a previous statement, the GHF had declared that 19 victims had been trampled on and another was stabbed “in the middle of a chaotic and dangerous push”.
Without providing any evidence, he said that the jostling had been caused by “elements within the crowd – armed and affiliated in Hamas”.
The press release also said that GHF staff had seen several weapons in the crowd and that one of its American entrepreneurs had been threatened by a firearm.
However, the Palestinian witnesses and authorities vehemently challenged the version of GHF events.
A survivor told Tel Aviv Tribune: “We would go like everyone else. We arrived at the door and realized that it was closed, thousands of people were there. The Americans pulled tear gas in the crowd to disperse them, which caused a jostling and many people died while being crushed by the crowd. ”
The Gaza Ministry of Health published a statement indicating that 21 Palestinians had been killed on Wednesday on the GHF website. He noted that 15 of the victims died following a stampede and suffocation after tear gas was fired from crowds of assistance seekers.
“For the first time, deaths were recorded due to the suffocation and intense jostling of citizens in aid distribution centers,” added the ministry.
Speaking on Wednesday in Gaza City, the Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent, Hani Mahmoud, said that a witness had confirmed that tear gas had been dismissed on the crowd, “causing chaos and chaos”, which led to a stampede.
Meanwhile, a medical source from Nasser Hospital told AFP news agency that the desperate and hungry victims had tried to receive food, but the main door of the distribution center had been closed.
“Israeli occupation forces and private security personnel have opened fire to them, causing a large number of deaths and injuries,” they said.
Since the GHF began to operate in the enclave at the end of May, at least 875 people were killed by trying to get food, according to the United Nations, which said on Tuesday that 674 of these deaths had occurred “near GHF sites”.
Speaking last week, the spokesperson for the United Nations Rights Office, Ravina Shamdasani, said that most of the victims had suffered “ball injury”.
Entrepreneurs from the Israeli army and GHF were accused of having done the murders.
The UN has described GHF sites as “death traps”, describing them as “intrinsically dangerous” and a violation of humanitarian impartiality standards.
Amjad Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGO network, said Wednesday that GHF was guilty of mismanagement.
“People who flock to their thousands (on GHF sites) are hungry and exhausted, and they are in a hurry in close places, in the midst of the shortages of aid and the lack of organization and discipline by the GHF,” he said.
The latest death distribution centers close to the aid came as an Israeli attack on a camp of displaced people in Al-Mawasi killed nine people.
In total, at least 81 Palestinians, including 25 people who were looking for help, were killed Wednesday, according to medical sources.
