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29 Feb 2024

On 29 February 2024, at least 112 Palestinians were killed and roughly 760 wounded around an aid-flour convoy at the Nabulsi roundabout on al-Rashid Street in Gaza City; witnesses and Gaza health officials said Israeli forces fired on the crowd, while the Israeli military said most victims were trampled or run over in a crush around the trucks. UN experts condemned the killings and called for accountability, and a CNN review of video evidence and witness testimony, assessed by forensic experts, cast doubt on the Israeli military's timeline, indicating gunfire began before the stated start of the convoy crossing.

🇮🇱 Official responseIDF statement (via Times of Israel)
Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_Massacre
⚑ Excuse: on file 🕊 Response: condemnation & concern⚖ Sanctions: none✈ Arms exports: uninterrupted

The record — 11 sources

Date, publication and headline for each source, as the source itself published them. Forensic Architecture is pinned first; the rest by publication date. 11 of 11 dated; a blank means the publisher's page didn't expose it, and we don't guess.

DatePublicationHeadline
2024-04-26Forensic Architecture (attacks on aid)Attacks on Aid in Gaza: Preliminary Findings
2024-02-29NPRScores killed trying to get food from an aid convoy during a chaotic scene in Gaza
2024-02-29AxiosDozens of Palestinians killed in incident around Gaza aid convoy
2024-03-01Al JazeeraFlour massacre: How Gaza food killings unfolded, and Israel’s story changed
2024-03-01France24‘Flour massacre’: Lifesaving aid becomes a deadly struggle in Gaza
2024-03-01Washington PostAnalysis | Gaza’s spiraling, unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe
2024-03-05UN OHCHRUN experts condemn ‘flour massacre’, urge Israel to end campaign of starvation in Gaza
2024-03-05+972 MagazineSurvivors of Gaza aid convoy massacre describe ‘indiscriminate’ Israeli fire
2024-03-14NBC NewsHow did 118 people die in Gaza's Al-Rashid aid convoy violence?
2024-03-16Le MondeGaza: Israeli army again denies having opened fire on crowds queuing for aid, killing twenty people
2024-04-09CNNDying for a bag of flour: Videos and eyewitness accounts cast doubt on Israel’s timeline of deadly Gaza aid delivery | CNN