Brian McDonald
Two men fishing in the waters off the coast of the Gaza Strip were killed on Wednesday by Israeli troops who fired at them with automatic weapons, James Elder, global spokesman for the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF, told CBS News.
Elder said he was in a truck trying to deliver food and medical supplies to 10,000 children in northern Gaza when his team was stopped at an Israeli checkpoint. From his position, he said he could see about 10 men fishing with a single net in knee-deep water.
“I was outside the vehicle and all of a sudden I saw a tank coming and then shooting, and I saw these two men trying to run away from the fishing spot and then fall into the sand,” Elder said.
Elder said he heard the sound of an automatic weapon coming near the tank before the men fell. He said his group eventually made contact with the military and that some of the fishermen who fled the shooting managed to return to the beach to recover the bodies of those killed.
“I don’t know if they were brothers or friends. I just saw those people carrying their dead friends or relatives, obviously in tears,” Elder told CBS News.
Asked whether the men in the water showed any signs of hostility toward Israeli forces, he told CBS News: “They were fishermen. They were fishing.”
When asked about the incident, which Elder first reported in a post on Instagramthe Israel Defense Forces requested the exact location and said they were investigating the claim.
Elder said he and his team were prevented from delivering the aid shipment and forced to turn back that day.
“We spent about eight or nine hours at military checkpoints. In the end, our truck, despite all approvals, was denied access and returned… Yes, let’s try again. consistent with the denials we and many other agencies have experienced,” Elder said.
Israel has previously said it allows hundreds of trucks carrying aid to enter Gaza daily, and the Israeli government blamed the UN for not distributing it.
Elder, who has visited the Gaza Strip repeatedly since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, told CBS News that the violence he has witnessed in recent days has escalated to levels he saw shortly after the conflict was sparked by Hamas on March 7. October. terrorist attack.
“It felt like the first day of the war again,” he said. “Walking in this hospital, absolutely packed with people, children, little, you know, 3-year-old, 7-year-old children with these grotesque war wounds, head injuries and burns… And the children are on the bed. They’re on makeshift gurneys. They are in beds. There is simply no capacity for Gaza to have seen the systematic devastation of its healthcare system, therefore, at a time when children are so woefully and wildly under attack from the skies. but also because of malnutrition on the ground, we have never needed more health care and we have never had less.”
Chris Livesay and Erin Lyall of CBS News contributed to this report.
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