The UN Human Rights Office said it believed 47 people were injured in Gaza on Tuesday when crowds packed an aid distribution center run by a controversial new group backed by the US and Israel.
According to foreign media, a senior official said that the UN was still gathering information, but according to him, most of the injuries were due to gunfire and that "the shooting was being done by the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]."
Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry said one person was killed and 48 others were injured, A2 CNN reports.
The IDF said it was verifying the reports. A spokesman said troops fired "warning shots" into the air in the area outside the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site in the southern city of Rafah, but said they did not shoot at people.
The GHF aid distribution system uses American security contractors and bypasses the UN, which has dismissed it as unethical and dysfunctional.
The US and Israeli governments have said they are preventing aid theft by Hamas, which the armed group denies having done, writes A2 CNN.
UN agencies have warned that Gaza's population of 2.1 million is facing catastrophic levels of hunger after a nearly three-month Israeli blockade was eased last week. (A2 Televizion)
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