Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said that during the humanitarian aid convoy’s movement in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army shot at looters, not civilians. IDF Hagari was published in English by the IDF press service.
“Our initial check confirmed that the Israeli army did not carry out any attack on the aid convoy,” he emphasized.
According to Hagari, the IDF did not fire on the evacuees, but did open fire on some looters who posed a threat to the Israeli side, and also fired into the air. He said that the cause of the tragedy that occurred during the movement of the convoy was the stampede among Palestinians.
Before that in the IDF reported About the attack on the positions of “Islamic Jihad” (an organization banned in Russia) in the Rafah checkpoint area.
The situation in the Middle East escalated further on October 7, 2023, when thousands of armed Hamas supporters entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s intervention operation was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. As part of the Israeli army’s ground operation on 5 November surrounded We cut off Gaza city from its food source. 5 December IDF to start The third part of the ground operation took place in the Gaza Strip and surrounded the city of Khan Younis in the south of the strip.
Previously Pope Francis statedThat the world is being dragged into war because of the defense industry.