Israel news outlet says soldiers targeted Palestinians at aid sites
發佈日期: 2025-06-28 21:06
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Israeli news outlet Haaretz has published a report quoting Israeli soldiers as saying they were ordered to shoot at Palestinians approaching aid distribution sites in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz rejected the report, calling the findings "malicious falsehoods designed to defame" the military.
This as U.S. President Donald Trump says a peace deal in Gaza is close, while Iran's Foreign Minister says the damage to nuclear sites after a recent U.S. attack is "high".
Palestinians make their way to a U.S.-backed aid distribution site in central Gaza.
Some head back with sacks of flour over their shoulders; some, like this man, come away empty-handed; and some don't make it back at all.
Sameer from the Nusairat refugee camp said it is terrible that the price to get aid is 30 to 40 people getting killed. You could survive today but tomorrow may be your turn, he said.
Around 500 Palestinians have been killed trying to reach the distribution areas, with Israel saying they posed a threat to soldiers.
The Haaretz report quoted some soldiers as saying they were ordered to shoot even if they were not threatened, which Netanyahu firmly rejected.
Danger on the ground and danger from above, with Israeli airstrikes in Jabaliya and Gaza City killing a total of 11 people.
After 21 months of devastation in Gaza costing 56,000 lives, Trump said he is confident of a peace deal as early as next week.
"I think it's close," said Trump. "I just spoke with some of the people involved. And it's a terrible situation that's going ... Gaza, he's asking about. And we think within the next week we're going to get a ceasefire. And I look at those crowds of people that have no food, no anything. And, you know, we're the ones that are getting it there."
At the United Nations, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said aid distribution should be given priority.
"The problem of the distribution of humanitarian aid must be solved," said Guterres. "There is no need to reinvent the wheel with dangerous schemes. We have the solution. A detailed plan grounded in the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence. We have the supplies, we have the experience."
Meanwhile, Iran is admitting for the first time that the recent American bombing of three nuclear sites caused severe damage.
Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi told Iranian television that the level of damage is high and serious, and Tehran has yet to decide whether to allow in U.N. nuclear inspectors.
He added that no agreement is yet in place to restart negotiations with the U.S. on Iran's nuclear programme.
But Trump said Tehran is eager for talks. "Well, they may say that to you. Don't you think they want to meet me? Don't you think we have sanctions on there that they can't do anything? Wouldn't you think that they want to meet me. I mean, they're not stupid people."
In Tehran, thousands of mourners lined the streets of the capital today for the funeral of the head of the Revolutionary Guard and other top commanders and nuclear scientists killed during a 12-day war with Israel.
The caskets of Guard's chief General Hossein Salami and ballistic missile programme head General Amir Ali Hajizadeh and others were driven on trucks along Tehran's Azadi Street.
