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The head of a Gaza City hospital that treated some of those wounded in the bloodshed surrounding an aid convoy said Friday that more than 80% had been struck by gunfire, suggesting there was heavy shooting by Israeli troops.

At least 115 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 others injured Thursday, according to health officials, when witnesses said nearby Israeli troops opened fire as huge crowds raced to pull goods off an aid convoy. Israel said many of the dead were trampled in a stampede that started when desperate Palestinians in Gaza rushed the aid trucks. Israel said its troops fired warning shots after the crowd moved toward them in a threatening way.

Dr. Mohammed Salha, the acting director of Al-Awda Hospital, told The Associated Press that of the 176 wounded brought to the facility, 142 had gunshot wounds and the other 34 showed injuries from a stampede.

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (19 children)

AP having difficulties to find the word "massacare"

TL;DR: ~80% of the flour massacare victims were shot by the IDF, not crowd crushed

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not sure if you saw the update but actually Israel didn't do anything more than just fire a few warning shots!

The review, he said, which gathered information from commanders and troops in the field, determined that no strike was carried out towards the aid convoy.

"The majority of Palestinians were killed or injured as a result of the stampede," Hagari said.

The dozens of Palestinians with bullet holes in them that day got them from, um, something else.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We didn't do it everyone died from crowd crushing.

But now that there's a video with gun sounds, we did do it but we only fired into the air.

But now that there's evidence of bullet wounds, Hamas did it.

But now that the BBC analysis shows that we did it, we were defending ourselves.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 2 points 7 months ago

Lol yea, they even

released a heavily edited video to deflect blame

but it went pretty much exactly how you described it.

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