Pressure for a cease-fire deal intensified last week after more than 100 civilians were killed during an aid delivery in Gaza, triggering outrage from European leaders.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians on Thursday who were taking food from delivery trucks in Gaza City. Israel contests this, saying most of the injuries were caused by people stampeding toward the trucks for supplies.
Israel is under pressure to agree to a cease-fire with Hamas to bring an end to the conflict in Gaza that was triggered by an attack by the militant group on October 7.
Since then, Gaza’s health ministry says that Israel’s defense forces have killed more than 30,000 Palestinians and international leaders have become more critical of Israel’s retaliation. The United Nations has warned that a quarter of the population in Gaza are “one step away from famine,” saying civilians are depending on “woefully inadequate” food aid.
