Shot into crowd

Riots over aid deliveries in Rafah

In Rafah, right on the Egyptian border, 1.3 million people are crowded together in a very confined space.

(Bild: AP)

Several dozen people have attempted to storm a truck carrying aid supplies at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip. Police intervened and drove the crowd away, the local authority controlled by the Islamist Hamas announced on Friday. 

Shots can be heard in videos and black smoke can be seen. Eyewitnesses reported that police deployed by Hamas had fired into the crowd and killed a teenager. The authorities initially refused to confirm this.

People living in tent camps in a very confined space
In Rafah, right on the Egyptian border, 1.3 million people are crowded together in a very confined space. Most of them have fled from other parts of the Gaza Strip to seek protection from the war. They live in huge tent camps or on the streets. Aid organizations are barely able to provide them with the basic necessities.

Aid supplies enter the sealed-off coastal area via the border crossing with Egypt after Israel has controlled it. The Gaza war was triggered by the unprecedented massacre carried out by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist Palestinian organizations on 7 October in Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip.