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
Secure passage throughout gaza to reach the people that need humanitarian aid. Our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has more on the International Pressure for an independent investigation. Israelis will say, look, we will investigate this. We will see if there are lessons to be learned. Theyve said theyre going to do that. Whether they will do a kind of open, internationally supervised investigation of the kind thats being alluded to by some outside israel, i slightly doubt that. But they clearly recognise that theyre under pressure to explain what happened in the early hours of thursday morning, because now it isntjust a question of what the israeli army is saying versus what palestinian doctors are saying. You now have, for the first time, International Observers in the form of representatives from the un who were in Shifa Hospital yesterday and who met people who they said had experienced gunshot wounds. Now the un team says they did not see dead bodies, so they were not able t
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
This hospital was treating more than 200 people that were injured yesterday. We have seen people with gunshot wounds. 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. President biden has promised that the us military will airdrop humanitarian aid into gaza in the coming days. The air drops will be coordinated with the jordanians, who have been at the forefront of efforts to send assistance to gaza by air. There has also been a lot of other International Reaction to life loss following a rush on aid convoy in gaza. French president Emmanuel Macron wrote, Deep Indignation at the images coming from gaza where civilians have been targeted by israeli soldiers. I express my strongest condemnation of these shootings and call for truth, justice, and respect for international law. African union has released a sta