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Jessica LE MASURIER

‘Flour massacre’: Lifesaving aid becomes a deadly struggle in Gaza

The bodies of people killed in the 'flour massacre' at al-Shifa hospital, Gaza City in the Gaza Strip on February 28, 2024. © Mohammed Hajjar, France 24

At least 112 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 others were injured on Thursday after Israeli troops opened fire on civilians gathered at a convoy of food trucks southwest of Gaza City, Palestinian health officials said. Israel denied it was to blame, saying that many victims were run over by aid trucks in a rush to obtain food. The massacre comes as the UN warns of an “almost inevitable famine” in the besieged Palestinian enclave amid increasing reports of children dying of starvation.

At dawn on Thursday morning in Gaza City, photographer Mohammed Hajjar got word that trucks carrying food had finally made it into the capital of the besieged Palestinian enclave.

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