Michigan - We, at the American Center for Justice (ACJ), express our deepest condemnation of killing 112 civilians and wounding 760 other Palestinians while receiving humanitarian aid in western Gaza at dawn last Thursday. Thes victims were shot by the Israeli army. We also stress that the attempts of the Israeli army to evade its responsibility for the horrific crime by publishing a fragmentary aerial video footage and claiming that stampeding and trampling were the cause of the killing of such a large number of Palestinian civilians is unacceptable. 

Video footages and field information followed by the technical team of tge ACJ showed that the reason for the killing of dozens of Palestinians in what is known as the “flour massacre” was due to Israeli tanks firing heavily towards Palestinian civilian gatherings while trying to receive humanitarian aid west and south of Gaza City.

We stress that Israel bears full responsibility for directly targeting and killing hundreds of civilians in a full-fledged war crime. It also bears responsibility for the crime of starvation that prompted masses of civilians, under famine imposed by Israel for 146 days, to rush towards trucks carrying aid, which the army forces obstruct its entry in quantities appropriate to the population that are driven by hunger to risk their lives in order to secure what satisfies their hunger and the hunger of their children.

The American Center for Justice stresses that these horrific crimes are committed in parallel with the continued silence of the international community, which is following the genocidal practices against the Palestinians without any responsible or moral position. The Center confirms that all international parties, especially countries supporting Israel, bear responsibility for the continued deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians from five months ago to this day.