Friday that a large number of people had been found with bullet wounds. The un is calling for a full investigation into what happened. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, spent the day piecing together more details of what happened. His report contains some distressing images. Although death is everywhere now in gaza, they had come thinking they would find aid to keep their families alive. Then shots ripped through the night. Shots crack through the night. People start to move. Then ran to escape. In this section of the crowd, panic. As casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation the situation was unimaginably crazy. If aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convoy left from here under Israeli Tank Escort and began to move towards the crowds waiting for food. The army supplied Drone Footage but there is no way of telling the sequence of the images because theres no
Shot into the crowd. The israeli army, which has released this overhead Drone Footage, admits its soldiers opened fire but claims most of the deaths were caused by a crush, or aid trucks running people over. The United Nations reported friday that a large number of people had been found with bullet wounds. Un secretary general Antonio Guterres is calling for an immediate investigation into what happened. Earlier we asked his chief of staff, stephane dujarric, how thats possible. At some point they will need to be an investigation. A credible investigation. They will need to be accountability for what happened. It is obviously challenging, to say the least, to conduct one in the midst of a conflict and this is one of the reasons that we want to see a humanitarian ceasefire as quickly as possible. At the end of the day, we had more than 100 people dying because they were dying to get food. And in the end, they were killed either by bullets from the israel army, trampled by others in a m
Into the crowd. The israeli army, which has released this overhead Drone Footage, admits its soldiers opened fire but claims most of the deaths were caused by a crush, or aid trucks running people over. The United Nations reported on friday that a large number of people had been found with bullet wounds. Un secretary general Antonio Guterres is calling for an immediate investigation into what happened. Earlier we asked his chief of staff, stephane dujarric, how thats possible. At some point there will need to be an investigation. A credible investigation. There will need to be accountability for what happened. It is obviously challenging, to say the least, to conduct one in the midst of a conflict and this is one of the reasons that we want to see a humanitarian ceasefire as quickly as possible. At the end of the day, we had more than 100 people dying because they were dying to get food. And in the end, they were killed either by bullets from the israel army, trampled by others in a mo
bret: but, obviously, breaking tonight, an historic day. one that both republicans and democrats described as, quote: a sad day. the first former or current president of the united states to be arrested and booked in federal criminal court. former president donald trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 counts in the indictment alleging that the former president illegally kept hundreds of classified documents at his mar-a-lago home, even after a subpoena to return them. potentially risking the disclosure of top secret national defense secrets. the former president is defiant, proclaiming his innocence from what he describes as as another witch-hunt and he accuses president biden s administration of targeting him, the leading g.o.p. challenger. the former president is on his way to his golf club in bedminster, new jersey where he will hold a fundraiser tonight and is expected to deliver remarks about this day and the charges he faces. correspondent mark meredith is outside the mi