President Biden confirmed plans on Friday to airdrop aid supplies into Gaza in the coming days after a stampede toward aid trucks killed over 100 Palestinians this week. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
President Biden confirmed plans on Friday to airdrop aid supplies into Gaza in the coming days after a stampede toward aid trucks killed over 100 Palestinians this week.
The airdrop campaign comes after more than 100 people were reported dead and hundreds more wounded when Palestinians rushing toward trucks loaded with humanitarian aid encountered fire in Gaza City early Thursday, according to local media reports.
The exact circumstances surrounding the deaths remain unclear; while several reports suggested Israeli troops fired on the crowd as they descended upon the trucks, the Israeli military suggested that most who died were trampled.
Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesman for the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, said at least 104 people were killed and around 760 were wounded, describing the incident as a "massacre."
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Dozens of Palestinians were killed and at least 280 were wounded when they were fired upon during a humanitarian aid delivery in Gaza City early Thursday. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Essa, File)
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Hamas says it holds Israel and Biden's administration "fully responsible" for the incident and for the "ethnic cleansing" of its people. The group called for worldwide demonstrations against Israel's bombardment of Gaza.
"We have mercy on the souls of our people’s martyrs, and we affirm that their sacrifices and blood will not be in vain and that we will remain loyal to our cause, our land, and our sanctities," the group posted to Telegram.
Fox News' Michael Dorgan and Reuters contributed to this report.
Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.
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