Reports of fatal shooting by Israeli infantrymen near a new food distribution in Gaza are criticized through the U. S. -supported organization that distributes food.
Ari Shapiro, host:
A fatal shooting in Gaza this weekend left at least 21 other people dead and more than 150 wounds while they were for food, according to the International Red Cross Committee. Palestinian eyewitnesses say that other people headed to a new food distribution site when Israeli troops shot them.
Juana Summers, host:
The US ambassador to Israel says that there is no such dismissal and says that the US media reports that it is spreading, quotes “totally manufactured stories. ” Today, the FDI declared that their troops fired the Palestinians in a separate incident near the same food site.
Shapiro: Daniel Estrin de NPR has such an Aviv. And a warning that this story describes graphic scenes of violence.
Daniel Estrin, Byline: NPR spoke with two Palestinians who survived a terrifying few hours early Sunday morning in Gaza.
Mohammed Saqqa: (Speaking Arabic).
Strin: Mohammed Saqqa, father of three children, told the NPR Ahmed Abuhamda manufacturer that he had taken a car drawn by the sea at 2 a. m. I had heard temporarily exhausted materials.
Saqqa: (speak Arabic).
Estrin: “The Israeli army began to draw precautionary plans from the cars and boats in the Navy,” he says, “while the drones played an announcement ordering it to withdraw. “People have lowered themselves into their abdomen to cover themselves, but they would progress little through little. It’s dark. He said he continued to hear gunshots and other people screaming.
Saqqa: (speaks Arabic).
Strin: There is an old woman near him with her grandson. He killed in the neck. “I discovered it completely from blood,” he said, “as his grandson shouted” Array . . .
Saqqa: (speaks Arabic).
Estrin: . . . “Oh, grandma. Oh, grandma. “
NPR spoke with another guy who says he is in the crowd through Barakat’s call. He asked that his last call was retained, fearing the repercussions of Israel. He said the military boats opened fireplace and described similar scenes.
Barakat: (Arabic speaking).
Estrine: “It’s inhuman and unfair,” Barakat said. He says he went home with a empty lock. Everyone had already hit all the food.
Speaking anonymously in line with the army protocol, an Israeli army official told the media, whose NPR, the troops have had precautionary plans, cite, “suspect” about a thousand meters from the food site. The manager said it to save them from coming to the troops. But publicly, the Israeli army spokesman Effie Defrin published this video message.
(Soundbite of archived recording)
Effie DeFrin: I urge you not to all the rumors spread through Hamas. We will investigate each of these incidents and each of these allegations.
Estrin: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, the organization supported through the United States leading the new Foodarray has issued rejections. He said that no civilian had been shot down near the emails that said that NPR accounts were absolutely false and ridiculous. The United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee also weighed. He says that the reports of the US media are false and that the first handling accounts have not shown injuries, no death, nor shots. He accused American media of having contributed to an anti-Semitic climate that led to the attack on Sunday opposed to Pro-Israeli protesters in Boulder, Colorado.
In Gaza, the scenario as a whole, says the humanitarian staff is that enough people. None has arrived in North Gaza in more than 3 months. The global food program continues to check to deliver flour there, however, its trucks have been looted, says Corinne Fleischer de PAM.
Corinne Fleischer: When there is no food in a position in which 2. 1 million people live, crime increases, of course, considerably. People just look to have everything they can.
Estrin: She says what is now a ceasefire. She says it’s the most productive way to get food from Gaza safely. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.