{"id":48593,"date":"2024-03-02T20:08:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48593"},"modified":"2024-03-02T20:08:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:08:54","slug":"au-chief-accuses-israel-of-mass-killing-of-palestinians-seeking-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48593","title":{"rendered":"AU chief accuses Israel of &#8216;mass killing of Palestinians&#8217; seeking aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>African Union chief Moussa Faki Mahamat on Saturday accused Israel of &#8220;the mass killing of Palestinians&#8221; and urged an international probe after dozens died following a rush on an aid convoy in war-torn Gaza.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mahamat strongly condemns an attack by Israeli forces, that killed and wounded more than 100 Palestinians seeking life-saving humanitarian aid,&#8221; the bloc said in a statement dated Friday but posted on X on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Chairperson calls for an international investigation into the incident to bring the perpetrators to account,&#8221; the statement said, urging &#8220;an immediate and unconditional ceasefire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli troops opened fire as Palestinian civilians scrambled for food supplies during a chaotic melee on Thursday that the Hamas-run territory&#8217;s health ministry said killed more than 100 people in Gaza City.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths came after a World Food Programme official had warned: &#8220;If nothing changes, a famine is imminent in northern Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said a &#8220;stampede&#8221; occurred when thousands of Gazans surrounded the convoy of 38 aid trucks, leading to dozens of deaths and injuries, including some who were run over. <\/p>\n<p>An Israeli source acknowledged troops had opened fire on the crowd, believing it &#8220;posed a threat&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Union chief Moussa Faki Mahamat on Saturday accused Israel of &#8220;the mass killing of Palestinians&#8221; and urged an international probe after dozens died following a rush on an aid convoy in war-torn Gaza. &#8220;Mahamat strongly condemns an attack by Israeli forces, that killed and wounded more than 100 Palestinians seeking life-saving humanitarian aid,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[650],"class_list":["post-48593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-au-chief-accuses-israel-of-mass-killing-of-palestinians-seeking-aid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}