Over as the aid convoy moved away. In the last hour, the Un Security Council has been meeting Behind Closed Doors to discuss the situation. It comes on the day that the hamas government says more than 30,000 people have been killed in the territory since this conflict began in october. Our special correspondent fergal keane reports from Jerusalem The Hunger created by war made this tragedy. That is a fundamental fact of what happened today. The dead and wounded were starving people, simply hoping to feed their families. Translation | am| one of the wounded. I was on al rashid street. We were there all day in order to get food for our children, but we paid for that aid with our blood. Thousands had gathered in the predawn darkness. Theyd heard trucks were coming with aid. There were farmers, mechanics, our bbc cameraman, teachers, a doctor from a local hospital. An israeli drone filmed people crowding the aid trucks. It is a striking depiction of human desperation. The military said tan
Since the start of the war, more than 30,000 palestinians have been killed in gaza. Now, several experts weve spoken to have said that the number of dead could actually be much higher than this. And thats because many hospitals in gaza where deaths are recorded are no longer operating. Now, lets take a bit of a closer look at this. Look at this graph its a breakdown of who exactly has been killed. And as you can see from this, the majority of those killed have been women and children. And how does this compare with previous conflicts in gaza . Well, this chart shows deaths in 2008, and you can see that more men were killed than women and children. And its a similar picture in the second war in 2014. Now, have a look at this chart which shows the current war. Now, the bars here for women and children show the deaths in red and purple and theyre significantly higher than the one for men. Keep in mind, this war has been going on for months, whereas the others lasted for weeks. So the deat
About an incident in gaza city. More than 100 palestinians have been killed while trying to get food aid in gaza city. These are images from the scene in the south west of the city. Joe biden described it as tragic and alarming as he spoke with the leaders of egypt and qatar. These are images from the scene in the southwest of gaza city. Eyewitnesses say a large number of people had approached the convoy of aid trucks as it passed a checkpoint, apparently trying to grab what they could. Since the war began, the amount of food getting into gaza has dropped dramatically, and aid agencies have warned of impending starvation. The Israeli Military released these aerial pictures. It says some soldiers on the checkpoint felt the crowd posed a threat and opened fire. In the chaos that followed, the trucks tried to move forward. Accounts differ, but one witness said that many of the deaths were caused by people being run over. The trucks were overwhelmed and the people driving the trucks, which
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