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Flour massacre: How Gaza food killings unfolded, and Israel’s story changed
At least 112 Palestinians were killed after waiting for much-needed aid in Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
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What did Israel say?
The Israeli military said the trucks were managed by private contractors as part of an aid operation overseen by them for the past four nights.
But the Israeli version of events changed over the course of the day.
Reporting from occupied East Jerusalem, Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith said the Israeli military “initially tried to pin the blame on the crowd”, saying that dozens were hurt as a consequence of being crushed and trampled in a stampede when aid trucks arrived.
“And then, after some pushing, the Israelis went on to say that their troops felt threatened, that hundreds of troops approached their troops in a way they posed a threat to them so they responded by opening fire,” Smith added. But they didn’t explain how those people posed a threat.
Witnesses insisted that the stampede happened only after Israeli troops started firing at people looking for food.