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  • Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, US airdrops, deaths at Gaza food line

    Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, US airdrops, deaths at Gaza food line

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    An injured Palestinian receives medical treatment in Al-Shifa Hospital after Israeli forces open fire on Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid trucks at Al-Rashid Street in Gaza City, Gaza on February 29. Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu/Getty Images

    The United Nations Security Council has expressed “deep concern” over a devastating incident that killed more than 100 Palestinians seeking aid on Thursday in northern Gaza, while acknowledging that an Israeli investigation is underway.

    “The council members express deep concern regarding reports stating that over 100 individuals lost their lives with several hundred others sustaining injuries, including people with gunshot wounds as observed by UN-OCHA, in an incident involving Israeli forces at a large gathering surrounding a humanitarian assistance convoy southwest of Gaza City,” the Security Council said in a statement Saturday.

    “The council members take note that an Israeli investigation is underway,” it added.

    On Thursday, the day of the incident, Security Council members were unable to agree on a statement because of US objections.

    The statement released Saturday said members of the Security Council “reiterate their demand for parties to the conflict to allow, facilitate, and enable the immediate, rapid, safe, sustained and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale to the Palestinian civilian population throughout the Gaza Strip.”

    “The council members urge Israel to keep border crossings open for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, to facilitate the opening of additional crossings to meet humanitarian needs at scale, and to support the rapid and safe delivery of relief items to people in all of the Gaza Strip,” the statement said.

    The carnage: At least 118 people were killed and 760 injured Thursday when Israeli troops open fired on Palestinian civilians who were gathering around food aid trucks, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza.

    CNN is unable to independently confirm these numbers.

    Israel’s military has denied that account, saying it fired warning shots to disperse a crowd.

    On Friday, a spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, citing a UN team that visited the hospital where survivors were taken, said many of the injured civilians had suffered gunshot wounds.

    “From what they saw, in terms of the patients alive and getting treatment is that there is a large number of gunshot wounds,” Stéphane Dujarric said.

    Following the incident, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said an effective independent investigation was required.

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  • Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, deaths at Gaza food line

    Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, deaths at Gaza food line

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    Palestinian women and children walk past buildings destroyed during Israeli strikes in Beit Lahia, Gaza, on February 26. AFP/Getty Images

    UN Women, a United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, called the war in Gaza “also a war on women.”

    In a statement Friday, the organization estimated 9,000 women have been killed in Gaza since the October 7 attack.

    “As the war on Gaza approaches its five-month mark, Gazan women continue to suffer its devastating impact,” the statement read. “While this war spares no one, UN Women data shows that it kills and injures women in unprecedented ways.”

    UN Women reported an average of 63 women are killed every day in Gaza, with an approximate 37 mothers who are killed daily, “leaving their families devastated and their children with diminished protection.”

    “More than 4 out of 5 women (84 per cent) report that their family eats half or less of the food they used to before the war began, with mothers and adult women being those tasked with sourcing food, yet eating last, less, and least than everyone else,” the statement added.

    Displaced Palestinian women prepare bread inside a tent in Rafah, Gaza, on December 27.
    Displaced Palestinian women prepare bread inside a tent in Rafah, Gaza, on December 27. Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

    UN Women also pointed out that 87% of women in Gaza find it harder to access food than men.

    “Some women are now resorting to extreme coping mechanisms, such as scavenging for food under rubble or in dumpsters,” UN Women said.

    They called for immediate humanitarian aid to reach Gaza and an end to “the killing, bombing, and destruction of essential infrastructure in Gaza.”

    “Unless there is an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, many more will die in the coming days and weeks,” UN Woman said.

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  • Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, deaths at Gaza food line

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    More than 100 people were killed in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire Thursday, triggering panic as hungry Palestinian civilians were gathering around food aid trucks, Palestinian officials and eyewitnesses said.

    CNN is unable to independently confirm the death toll, and the Israeli military has given a different account of the circumstances.

    What we know: The carnage unfolded early Thursday when a group of trucks carrying desperately needed aid arrived at Haroun Al Rasheed Street in western Gaza City, in the Sheikh Ajleen neighborhood.

    People had swarmed around the newly arrived aid trucks when Israeli forces started shooting, according to witnesses. Many of the victims died when they were run over by trucks, according to one account.

    As the aid trucks tried to escape the area, others were accidentally rammed, causing further deaths and injuries, an eyewitness told CNN.

    A local journalist in Gaza, Khader Al Za’anoun, who was at the scene and witnessed the incident, said the chaos and confusion that led to people being hit by the trucks only started once Israeli forces opened fire.

    What the IDF says: An Israeli official told CNN IDF troops did use live fire on people surrounding aid truck as “the crowd approached the forces in a manner that posed a threat to the troops, who responded to the threat with live fire. The incident is under review.”

    Israeli government spokesperson Avi Hyman also told reporters the incident was “obviously a tragedy, but we’re not sure of the specifics quite yet.”

    What Hamas says: Hamas senior member Izzat Al-Risheq warned that Thursday’s incident could lead to the failure of ongoing talks aiming at the release of hostages and a ceasefire.

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