Palestinian deaths in Gaza pass 30,000 as witnesses say Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid

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18. They weren't "waiting." It was a stampede on the first aid trucks to reach northern Gaza in a month.

The AP headline no longer contains the word "waiting." Your headline no longer matches the AP article's headline, which apparently has been amended as more facts have come to light. The article explains that it is becoming "nearly impossible" to deliver aid to northern Gaza due to a "breakdown of public order":

While many Palestinians fled the Israeli invasion in the north, a few hundred thousand are believed to remain in the area, which has suffered widespread devastation and has been largely isolated during the conflict. Trucks carrying food reached northern Gaza this week, the first major aid delivery to the area in a month, officials said Wednesday.

Aid groups say it has become nearly impossible to deliver humanitarian assistance in most of Gaza because of the difficulty of coordinating with the Israeli military, ongoing hostilities and the breakdown of public order, with crowds of desperate people overwhelming aid convoys. 

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-29-2024-f9b5a62a80d8b83eac4946d3c85af58b?taid=65e05a21b0ea880001d4fa3d

As the article indicates, this occurred at night, right before daybreak, after word got out that aid trucks had arrived, and crowds of hundreds of men started swarming the trucks as they tried to drive down the road. Many were run over by the trucks trying to drive away.

The IDF troops were there to guard the trucks and got overwhelmed and threatened. It is a tragic situation.

Gift WaPo link shows aerial view of the men stampeding the trucks: https://wapo.st/3OXXedW