“They are called mortal areas.” From Gaza-Ville, Mahmoud Al-Ghura, father of four children, tells our British colleagues in the BBC their “fear” to go to the assistance centers of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to look for food.
“I’m afraid that if I have a flour bag, I return in one of them. Every day, people go there and die,” he said, explaining that his family is content with eating bread and salt.
After having relaxed at the end of May, a total blockade imposed on the Palestinian territory in early March, the Israeli authorities established a mechanism for helping aid by the GHF. An organization supported by the United States: the United States Department of State announced on Thursday paying $ 30 million and called “other countries to support” their “essential work.”
Since the end of May, its help distribution has resulted in chaotic scenes. According to the local civil defense, the Palestinians are almost horn by seeking humanitarian aid in these distribution centers.
From the beginning of GHF’s distributions, at least 450 people killed
This Thursday, June 26, six people waiting to receive help were killed by the Israeli fire according to the aid. The same sad report the previous day: six people were killed and 30 wounds “for the Israeli fire against thousands of civilians who expected help” near the Netzarim corridor in downtown Gaza, said the spokesman for the local civil defense, Mahmoud Bassal.
The multitudes of Palestinians gather every night in this sector to wait for the opening of help distribution sites where they hope to receive food, have noticed the AFP correspondents.
This Tuesday, June 24, at least 46 people were killed and 150 wounded by the Israeli fire almost two distribution centers, one near the crossroads of Netzarim and the other near Rafah in the south of the enclave. A sinister evaluation that made France react. Paris condemned the civilians of “Israeli shots who had played” during the night “, the civilians gathered around a help distribution center in Gaza, which left dozens of dead and injured.”
“Humanitarian aid should not be instrumentalized for political or military purposes. France asks the Israeli government to allow immediately, massive and without obstacles to humanitarian aid in Gaza,” said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In total, since the GHF began its distributions at the end of May, at least 450 people died and almost 3,500 wounds when trying to reach the aid distribution points, according to the last evaluation given Monday by the Ministry of Health of the Government of Hamas. An evaluation that, therefore, does not take into account the death of the last days.
“We live in anxiety”
“Why is the life of our children perceived as as little value?” He asked the BBC a mother, Umm Raed Al-Nuaizi, whose son was injured by Bullet and then placed in intensive care after having gone to look for food in the center of the enclave.
Mona Mahmoud Al-Dam, had the opportunity to see her son, Alaa Hani al-Akawi, return “in One Piece.”
“When we send our children like that, we lived with anxiety. There, he returned alive, but tomorrow he could be dead, that is our daily life,” he explains in Francetv’s microphone.
According to the NGO, Save The Children, “children have been killed or injured in more than half of the fatal attacks to food distribution sites in Gaza” for four weeks.
Questioned by the AFP in these quasi-quota-quota shots, the Israeli army replies that “examines the situation”, which is not “conscious” of the “incident” or then does not respond. On Saturday, when eight people died in these circumstances, Tsahal said that their soldiers had shot “warnings” to prevent the “suspects” from approaching them, and said they “examined” the complaints of accusations.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), on the other hand, denies that mortal incidents have occurred in the vicinity of their aid points.
“Mortal traps for civilians”
“The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has established its distribution centers next to the Israeli military bases. Therefore, Israeli soldiers consider civilians as threats and shoot people,” said Francetv, Eyad Amawi, coordinator of local NGOs. “These distribution centers are fatal traps for civilians.”
“The so -called ‘mechanism’ of recently created aid is an abomination that humiliates and degrades desperate people. It is a deadly trap, which costs more lives than it saves,” said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has described as “war crime” the use of food as a gun in Gaza and urged the Israeli army to “stop shooting people who try to obtain it.”
“No information suggests that the murdered or injured people were involved in hostilities or represented a threat to the Israeli army or GHF distribution points,” HCDH said.
“Large -scale aid is essential to save lives”
Several human rights organizations on Monday asked the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to “cease their operations.”
By pointing out that the population of Gaza hungry for more than 20 months of war “had desperately needed more help,” the Foundation said it was “ready” to collaborate with other humanitarian organizations to reach those who need it most. “Until now, the UN and other humanitarian NGOs refuse to work with GHF due to concerns about their procedures and neutrality.
The Foundation said “collaborating” with the Israeli government to “open additional sites in northern Gaza.”
While more than two million Gazauis live in conditions near the famine, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to ban humanitarian aid in Gaza.
The Israeli prime minister on the other hand ordered his army for an army “to prevent Hamas from taking advantage of”, accusing the Palestinian Islamist movement of having “recovered control of humanitarian aid that enters north of the Gaza Strip.”
For the first time since March 2, the date on which Israel imposed a blockade in the Palestinian territory, the World Health Organization announced Thursday that it had made its first delivery of medical supplies in the Palestinian enclave. “These medical supplies are just a drop of water in the ocean, said the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in the social network X”. Large -scale help is essential to save lives. “
Source: BFM TV
