This past hour that washington will air drop humanitarian aid into the gaza strip. And thats where we are going to start. Theres growing International Pressure for a full investigation into what went wrong yesterday. As the aid convoy arrived in Northern Gaza. The israeli army has acknowledged that its soldiers opened fire at one point but says most of the deaths were caused by a crush, or lorries running people over. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, has spent the day piecing together more details of what happened. His report contains some distressing images. Shots cracked through the night. People start to move. Then run to get away. In this section of the crowd there is panic. And 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. We dont want to live on the blood of our children. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convo
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
We have seen amputees and we have seen children as young as 12 that were injured yesterday. These events cannot be allowed to go on. We need to have safe, secure passage throughout gaza to reach the people that need humanitarian aid. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, has been piecing together more details of what happened. And just a warning 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. 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 Fo
Eventin yesterdays tragic and alarming event in north gaza, trying to get humanitarian assistance in there, and the loss of life is heartbreaking. People are so desperate that innocent people got caught, a terrible war, unable to feed their families, and you saw the response when we try to get aid in. And we need to do more and the United States will do more stock in the coming days we willjoin with our friends the coming days we willjoin with ourfriends in the coming days we willjoin with our Friends Injordan and others are providing air drops of additionalfood and of additional food and supplies. Of additional food and suwlies of additional food and su lies. , supplies. President biden there. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, has been piecing together more details of what happened. And just a warning his report contains some distressing images. Although death is everywhere now in gaza, theyd come thinking they would find aid to keep their families aliv
A nuclear response. If the alliance decides to send troops to ukraine, the im told me on that people welcome to the program alarming unacceptable. A nightmare. Just some of the International Reactions to a deadly incident in gaza, which all scores of people die in a chaotic scramble for food. Though they are conflicting reports of what exactly happened, how much Health Officials a more than a 100 people were killed off days. Ready soldiers opened fire on a crowd near an aid, conroy is ready. Officials, a most of the dad were trampled in a stampede mall in this report. These ariel images have been released by israels military. It says the show by the stadiums in garza city, running towards it trucks in the early hours of thursday morning presenting in the day, at least im beat it for 45. 00 for you m up. Im bush, the a trucks bringing that con void to a halt. As you can see, in this video, the tags that were there to secure the condo boy sees the goes on to being trampled and cautiously