Twenty killed after trucks roll over to Gaza, says Hamas Civil Protection

Twenty people were killed and over 30 injured in Central Gaza after four trucks overturned a crowd, said the Hamas Civil Protection Agency.

The crowds rushed to the vehicles on the way to a southeast part of Deir Al Balah on Tuesday night. They climbed to the top of the trucks, causing drivers to lose control, local journalists told the BBC.

The area was under Israeli military control and the roads were healthy and dangerous, said the spokesman for the Civil Protection Agency Mahmoud Bazal.

The Private Transport Association, which is now working in Gaza, said 26 commercial trucks have entered the territory on Tuesday. Six were plundered and four of those who turned, leading to death and injuries.

Israel has announced that this will begin to allow the gradual entry of goods into the Gaza through the private sector to “increase the volume of aid” entering the enclave while reducing the UN reading.

Approved deliveries include baby food, fruits, vegetables, hygiene products and basic brackets.

The BBC contacted Israel’s Ministry of Defense for comment.

Hamas said the civilians had been waiting for the main deliveries to be delivered on the road for weeks. “This often leads to desperate crowds that swarm the trucks,” his media office said.

Help trucks have been often rushedLeading to chaotic scenes.

In a separate incident on Wednesday, Jordan said the Israeli settlers attacked a convoy connected to a gas of 30 trucks and accused Israel of failing to prevent such attacks.

The convoy passed through the Jordan border and headed for the crossing of Zikim to Gaza. The settlers blocked the road and stamped the trucks, crashing the front windows.

“This requires serious Israeli intervention and no condescension in working with those who impede these convoys,” said government spokesman Mohammed al-Momani.

He added that this was the second attack on a Jordan convoy for help after such an incident on Sunday.

On Wednesday, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN reported that its latest satellite survey showed that the amount of available and unharmed agricultural land in Gaza was reduced to less than a square mile.

This equals only 1.5% of the total area available for cultivation, the organization said, from 4.6% in a previous study published in late May.

“Gaza is already on the verge of a full -scale hunger,” said FAO Ku Dongyu’s CEO.

According to Hamas Health Ministry, 193 people have died of starvation and malnutrition since the beginning of the war, including 96 children.

More than 100 international help organizations and human rights have warned of mass fasting in Gaza and blaming Israel in preventing the distribution of decisive assistance.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, denies that he has a hunger on the territory and insists that his country is not blocking help.

Last week, the military in Israel said they would open humanitarian corridors Allow help Convoys in gas after increasing international pressure.

He also announced what he called a “local tactical pause in military activity” for humanitarian purposes in three areas and allowed the fall of foreign assistance.

About 90% of 2.1 million Gaza people have been displaced, some of them repeatedly and live in overcrowded and harsh conditions.

The UN repeatedly calls for the full and prolonged entry of humanitarian supplies, but access remains sporadic and many trucks are looted.

Israel insists that there are no restrictions on the supply of assistance and has repeatedly rejected what he defines as a “false statement of intentional starvation”.

Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others taken in Gaza as hostages.

At least 61 020 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since then, says Hamas Health Ministry.