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The United Nations say many of the Palestinian civilians injured during the carnage at a food aid convoy on Thursday suffered gunshot wounds, citing a UN team that visited the hospital where survivors were taken.
UN Secretary General’s spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told a news conference on Friday “from what they saw, in terms of the patients alive and getting treatment is that there is a large number of gunshot wounds,” Dujarric said.
At least 115 people were killed and 760 injured in an incident where Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops used live fire as hungry and desperate Palestinian civilians were gathering around food aid trucks, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said.
Dujarric added that the UN envoy, made up of members from OCHA, WHO and UNICEF, which visited Al-Shifa, didn’t examine any of the dead bodies so cannot say if the same is true for those killed.
Al-Shifa took in more than 700 injured patients following the food aid site tragedy and about 200 of those remain hospitalized, Dujarric said.
Conflicting accounts: There are mounting international calls for an independent investigation into the incident, with the circumstances disputed.
Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said Israeli tanks fired warning shots to “cautiously” disperse a crowd gathering around an aid convoy, after seeing that people in the crowd were being trampled.
But eyewitness accounts suggest the Israeli military opened fire on people near the trucks, causing drivers to pull away in panic.