From 3h ago
16.27 GMT
Biden says killing of more than 100 Palestinians
near aid trucks will complicate ceasefire talks
Joe Biden
said moments ago outside the White House, while on his way to the US-Mexico
border, that he’s reviewing the reports of Israeli troops shooting people
crowding for desperately needed food aid in Gaza – but he already is clear that
that the deadly incident will complicate talks on a ceasefire.
“I know it
will,” the US president told reporters gathering on the south lawn at the White
House as he left for a visit to the US-Mexico border today, when asked whether
the tragedy Gaza unfolding in would complicate negotiations.
Health
authorities in Gaza said the IDF fired on people waiting for aid near Gaza City
on Thursday had killed 104 Palestinians and wounded 280, with one hospital
saying it had received 10 bodies and dozens of injured patients, Reuters adds.
Biden
added:
We’re
checking that out right now. There’s two competing versions of what happened. I
don’t have an answer yet.
The
president also said that his previous comments that he hoped for a temporary
ceasefire by Monday, in the battle Israel is waging in Gaza with the goal of
destroying Hamas, would now “probably not” happen.
17.42 GMT
10m ago
18.57 GMT
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) was not
involved in the aid distribution in northern Gaza today that turned deadly and
resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people, the head of the agency has
said.
“Another
day from hell,” UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini posted to social
media, noting that more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since
the outbreak of war in October. He wrote:
An
additional 100 people are reportedly killed & 700 injured when they were
desperately trying to get lifesaving humanitarian aid from a convoy.
Neither
UNRWA nor any other UN agency were involved in this distribution. When will
this madness end?
The scenes
we are seeing unfold in Israel and Gaza mark a new chapter in the Middle East
conflict. The consequences and scale of losses are already devastating, and the
recent attack – and the war that now follows – is likely to shape global
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18.51 GMT
The US is
urgently seeking information on what took place in northern Gaza, where health
authorities said more than 100 Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces as
they waited for an aid delivery, a spokesperson for the US state department has
said.
Matthew
Miller, speaking to reporters, said the US understands that Israel is
conducting an investigation of the incident.
He added that Washington will be pushing for answers and continues to make clear to Israel that all possible measures must be taken to allow the entry of m
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