As the tragic scenes of “Al-Nabulsi Roundabout” are still fresh in the minds of thousands of Palestinians and millions around the world, where Israeli forces fired at Palestinian civilians waiting for relief trucks to obtain food a few days ago, a similar incident seems to have occurred again.
The Israeli army reportedly fired at displaced people waiting for the arrival of humanitarian aid at Al-Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, north of the Gaza Strip, on Monday evening, according to the Gaza government media office.
Dozens of civilians were waiting at Al-Kuwait Roundabout on Salah al-Din Street to receive flour and food aid, only to be met with gunfire.
The Specter of Famine
The media office affiliated with the Hamas movement holds the American administration and the international community fully responsible for exacerbating the humanitarian situation and worsening the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, amid rising death tolls due to hunger, malnutrition, and dehydration.
It also called for “stopping the genocide and introducing 1,000 trucks of aid to all provinces, especially the northern Strip.”
This came after a similar incident at Al-Nabulsi Roundabout in the southwest of Gaza City, which resulted in about 118 deaths and nearly 750 injuries at the time.
While Israel justified “the incident by the stampede of residents and the trucks running over some of those who attacked them to obtain the aid and loot food,” according to its claim.
However, that tragedy received widespread international criticism, emphasizing the need to bring more relief trucks into the besieged sector threatened by the specter of famine and to protect civilians.
The UN Security Council urged Israel to facilitate immediate access to sufficient humanitarian aid for civilians across the Strip.
It also expressed grave concern last Sunday about the 2.2 million inhabitants of Gaza facing food insecurity due to the war.
