Gaza residents killed as US-backed foundation begins distributing aid
Confusion is spreading in the Gaza Strip because Israeli troops reportedly opened fire on people heading to a food distribution point.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing food on Tuesday. It made the move after Israel and the United States claimed that relief supplies delivered by the UN were winding up in the hands of the Islamic group Hamas.
The foundation announced on Wednesday that it had given out roughly 840,000 meals at two distribution points in the territory.
But authorities in Gaza said three people were fatally shot by Israeli soldiers as they gathered to get food on Tuesday.
Multiple Arab news outlets reported on Wednesday that six people had been killed by Israeli gunfire as they tried to reach a food distribution point.
Ref : NHK