Palestinians say local gunmen and Israeli forces opened fire near Gaza aid site

The Palestinians in Gaza say they were expelled again while they were heading to a aid distribution centers run by the Israeli Humanitarian Foundation and the United States on Monday.

Witnesses said that for the first time they were shot by Palestinian militants near the GHF site in the Tal Al -Sultan area in Rafah, in the south. They also said the Israeli forces called them.

The Hamas -running Ministry of Health in Gaza said that six people were killed and 99 of the areas specified to collect aid were wounded.

The Israeli army said it was looking into reports.

GHF said that the Sultan’s Tel website did not open on Monday and that there were no accidents in two other sites that distributed aid.

This comes days after the Israeli Prime Minister confessed that he was armed with the Palestinian tribes in Gaza, who were opposing Hamas.

Almost every day since GHF began distributing aid on May 26, there have been fatal accidents near the centers or the other four centers that have been opened so far.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed while they were approaching one location in the Tal Al -Sultan area in Rafah on a road that passes through an Israeli military zone.

In previous incidents, witnesses said that the Israeli forces opened fire on the crowd. The Israeli army denied that the forces would fire civilians inside the site, but said that the forces that were launched on the “suspects” who ignored and dealt with warning clips.

In the two incident, people said at the scene that the Palestinian militants shot them, as well as the Israeli forces.

They said that the gunmen seemed to be transformed with the Israeli forces, as they were working near them and returning to an Israeli military area.

One of the witnesses told the BBC program in the Middle East daily that he saw a group of young people wearing civilian clothes and with their faces completely covered when he arrived in the area to obtain a box of food aid from GHF.

Hisham Saeed Salem said: “Initially, we thought they might be Palestinian youth who help in this process, but suddenly they started shooting at us,” said Hisham Saeed Salem.

“Even those who managed to get a box of aid were targeted and shooting. We still do not know who these attackers are. They took everything from us – they even stole from us during chaos.”

Another man, Muhammad Sakut, said: “Many young people were shot and killed behind me.

“Initially, it was the Israeli army who was shooting civilians. But today, we were shocked to discover the presence of gangs and militias,” he added.

At Nasser Hospital in the nearby city of Khan Yunis, Mohamed Kabaga, a man with serious wounds of shots in his neck, said, “A group of armed men who were organizing us in the shooting towards us directly.”

“We went to get aid. They said to stand in the queue. We stood in the queue and suddenly they started shooting at us. While I was standing, I was surprised when a bullet hit me, I felt dizzy and fell.”

The BBC Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) told that they were looking into reports.

GHF said in a statement that it had opened two sites on Monday in the Rafih neighborhood and the Saudi Wadi Gaza, in the middle of the tape, and that “the distribution of aid in both sites continued without an accident.”

When the BBC was asked about the reports of Tal Sultan, a GHF spokesman said there is nothing about our sites. “

However, a Facebook account told the group on Monday afternoon that the Tal Al Sultan Center had been closed because of the “chaos of the crowd”.

John Akri, the temporary executive director of GHF, said that he has provided more than 11 million meals over the past two weeks “without injury or a big accident in our distribution sites.”

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that the hospitals had received a total of 127 dead and 1,287 people with “areas designated for the distribution of aid” during the same period.

GHF, which uses American private security contractors, aims to bypass the United Nations as a major resource for aid to Palestinians.

The United Nations and other relief groups refuse to cooperate with the new regime, saying that it contradicts the humanitarian principles of neutrality, neutrality and independence.

They also warn that the 2.1 million people of Gaza are facing catastrophic levels of hunger after nearly three months of the Israeli siege, which was partially reduced three weeks ago.

The United States and Israel say the GHF system will prevent the aid stolen by Hamas, which the group denies.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.

At least 54,927 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health in the region.