The Ministry of Health in Gaza said Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for aid at the Kuwait Roundabout in north Gaza once again, killing 19 people and injuring 23 others. 

The Government Media Office in Gaza reported that thousands of starved Palestinians had been waiting for flour and aid trucks when the Israeli occupation forces and military tanks opened fire and shot them down.

Several victims and martyrs were transported to Al-Maamadani Hospital, while others' bodies were left at the site of the massacre, unable to be moved.

Horrifying: In a new #FlourMassacre, Israeli occupation forces killed several hungry Palestinians as they sought humanitarian aid at the Kuwait roundabout in Gaza City. #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/l5ufypZ5av

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The office denounced the recurrence of this crime and held the occupation, the United States administration, and the international community fully responsible for the starvation war imposed by "Israel" that is worsening in Gaza, specifically against 700,000 Palestinians in the north, alongside the constant aggression and war crimes and massacres that are being carried out against women and children every day. 

This comes at a time when a UN-backed report on Monday saying famine is likely to happen by May if the war on Gaza does not end, the United Nations human rights chief said on Tuesday that "Israel's" restrictions on humanitarian aid for Gaza may amount to a starvation tactic that could be a war crime. 

"The extent of Israel's continued restrictions on the entry of aid into Gaza, together with the manner in which it continues to conduct hostilities, may amount to the use of starvation as a method of war, which is a war crime," proclaimed Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Tuesday.

Moreover, Turk stated that "Israel" has a responsibility to guarantee access to food and medical assistance for the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

Oxygen, water, dates top the list of aid denied by 'Israel'

CNN has interviewed more than two dozen humanitarian and government officials who revealed that the Israeli agency that authorizes access to Gaza for the multi-billion-dollar aid attempts has enforced arbitrary and contradictory criteria.

It further looked into documents assembled by major contributors in the humanitarian operation that list the aid items that were most declined entrance by the Israeli occupation and found out that they mainly include anesthetics and anesthesia machines, oxygen cylinders, ventilators, and water filtration systems. 

CNN also discovered that other rejected items are dates, sleeping bags, cancer medication, water purification tablets, and maternity kits.

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