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As Gazans crowded for aid, Israeli troops opened fire

Israeli soldiers are accused of shooting hundreds of Palestinians getting food from aid trucks. What happened, and as famine looms, could ceasefire negotiations provide relief?
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A health worker leans over a with a white bandage on his chest and expression of pain in a hospital bed.
A Palestinian man who was wounded by Israeli fire while waiting for aid, according to health officials, lies on a bed at Al Shifa hospital on March 1, 2024. ( REUTERS/Kosay Al Nemer)
Front Burner24:16As Gazans crowded for aid, Israeli troops opened fire

Gaza health authorities say 118 people were killed and 760 people were injured while trying to get food staples like flour from aid trucks on Thursday, after Israeli soldiers opened fire. 

The Israeli military claims most people were killed in a stampede of people around the trucks, but accounts from witnesses and medical workers say most of the victims were shot. 

So what precipitated this deadly search for aid? How close is Gaza to famine? And what would it take to get food to the people there who are starving?

Yarden Michaeli explains. He's a reporter with Haaretz based in Tel Aviv. 

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