The ministry of health on Tuesday reported that Israeli tank shellfire killed at least 51 Palestinians as they awaited aid trucks in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip adding that dozens of others were wounded.
According to medics, more than 200 people were wounded, with at least 20 of them in critical condition.
Witnesses said Israeli tanks fired at least two shells at thousands of people awaiting aid trucks.
Nasser Hospital wards were crowded with casualties, and medical workers had to place some on the ground and in corridors due to the lack of space.
The incident was the latest in nearly daily mass deaths of Palestinians who were seeking aid in the past weeks, including near sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Israel’s subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health ministry, while internally displacing nearly Gaza’s entire population and causing a hunger crisis.
The assault has also triggered accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice and of war crimes at the International Criminal Court.
Israel, however, denies the accusations.
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, on Monday, announced that Nigeria’s headline inflation rate has dropped to 22.97 percent This marks a 0.74 percentage point decrease compared to the 23.71% recorded in April. On a month-on-month basis, inflation slowed to 1.53% in May, down from 1.86% in April indicating a more moderate rise in overall prices On a year-on-year basis, the NBS said the headline inflation rate was 10.98 per […]
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