Israeli troops gun down thousands of Palestinians awaiting aid in north Gaza

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Many of the casualties in the chaos that erupted in Gaza at a food distribution site were killed as a result of aid trucks ramming people as people tried to escape Israeli fire, according to a local journalist in Gaza, Khadeer Al Za'anoun.

Al Za'anoun, who was at the scene and witnessed the incident, told CNN that, though there were large crowds waiting for food to be distributed from aid trucks, the chaos and confusion that led to trampling only started once Israeli soldiers opened fire.

"Most of the people that were killed were rammed by the aid trucks during the chaos and while trying to escape the Israeli gunfire," he said.

He said that around 20 were killed directly by the gunfire, and the rest were killed under the aid trucks' wheels.

CNN says 20 people were shot, triggering a stampede that killed a lot more. Where did this site get "thousands"?

Firing into a crowd of thousands*

The number of casualties is going to be different.

The title is "guns down thousands". That means directly shoots thousands, not 20 in a giant crowd.

Fine.

Doesn't change the fact that Israel shot at a crowd of starving people.

Yeah, like the truth is bad enough. Why embellish it? That helps no one.