The UN accused this Tuesday, July 22, the Israeli army of having killed Gaza on Tuesday, July 22, since the end of May, more than 1,000 people who tried to obtain help, the vast majority of which near the GHF Foundation supported by the United States and Israel.
“The Israeli army has murdered more than 1,000 Palestinians while trying to obtain food in Gaza since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began operating,” said the UN High Commission of Human Rights.
“As of July 21, we identified 1,054 people killed in Gaza while trying to obtain food; 766 of them were killed near the GHF and 288 sites near the convoys of the UN AID and other humanitarian organizations,” said the High Commission of Human Rights.
“Our data is based on information from multiple reliable fields in the field, including medical teams and humanitarian and human rights organizations,” he said.
Israel defends the “citation”
On Sunday, almost 100 Palestinians died in Gaza after trying to recover humanitarian aid in the territory besieged by Israel for more than 21 months, according to the Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip.
The Civil Defense spokesman, Mahmoud Bassal, said that 93 people had been killed and dozens injured after “Israel, editor’s note) about people who expected help” in different parts of the territory. According to him, 80 people have died markedly in the Zikim area, northwest of the city of Gaza (North).
The World Food Program (PAM) said that one of his convoys who transported food aid had entered the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning and had known, in the Zikim sector, “huge crowds of hungry civilians who have suffered.” PAM has “completely unacceptable” any violence against these civilians.
Requested by AFP, the army spoke of “call to rule out an immediate threat that weighed”, confronted with a group of “thousands” of people. She denied the civil defense registry.
“Risk your life” to “try to reach a flour bag”
At the end of June, the UN warned about hunger that “progresses in Gaza” and in help distributions, which “already rare, continue to be the objective of violence.” The United Nations reproach the Humanitarian Foundation in Gaza (GHF) for “establishing unusual distribution sites, exposing the population over fire and bombing.” And denounces the fact that “Israel still prohibits humanitarian organizations from proceeding to distributions.”
The GHF began distributing food products on May 26, after a blockade of more than two months imposed by Israel at the entrance to any humanitarian aid and despite the risk of famine. The UN and the main help organizations refused to work with GHF, saying that it served the Israeli military objectives and violated the basic humanitarian principles.
GHF distributions have resulted in chaotic scenes, the Israeli army that has shot several times to try to contain hundreds of desperate Palestinians. “For many inhabitants, trying to reach a meal bag or a hot ration is equivalent to risking their life,” the UN denounced at the end of June.
MSF points out the GHF organization
According to Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, Mésecins Frontières Médecins Improvement Coordinator, the four GHF distribution sites, “all located in areas fully controlled by Israeli forces after the inhabitants were moved by force, are the size of a football field and are surrounded by observation posts, land and ships. Access.”
“GHF workers deposit palettes and food boxes and open fences before letting thousands of people enter to fight until the last grain of rice at the same time,” he said in a NGO statement at the end of June.
“If people arrive too early and approach the control points, shoot them. If they arrive on time, but there are too many people and jump on the tracks and the barbed wire, they are shot,” the Zabalgaageazkoa air deplored. “If they are late, they should not be there because it is an ‘evacuated area’, they are shooting,” he added.
Sitting by Israel since the beginning of the war in October 2023, the 2.4 million inhabitants of Gaza are subject to a serious shortage of food and basic needs. The director of the Al-Chifa hospital in Gaza-Ville, Mohammed Abu Salmiya, said on Tuesday that the deaths of 21 children “dead in malnutrition or hunger” were recorded in 72 hours in several establishments, including those of it, the Martyrs hospital in Al-Aqsa in Deir El-Balah and the Nasser hospital in Khan Younès.
The EU states that killing civilians looking for help for Gaza “is indefensible”
The Israeli army “must cease” to kill Palestinian civilians who meet in the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza, the head of the European Union, Kaja Kallas said Tuesday.
“I clearly indicated that the Israeli army should stop killing people in the” humanitarian aid distribution points, he said in X after an interview with the Israeli foreign matter Gideon Saar. Killing civilians looking for help in Gaza “is indefensible,” he insisted on the Estonian official.
The European Union announced two weeks ago that an agreement with Israel had concluded on an improvement in humanitarian aid deliveries in Gaza. “Israel respected certain commitments, as I said last week, but it is clear that there is still much to do,” said a spokesman for the EU diplomatic service, Anouar the Anouni, anouni, emphasizing that Kaja Kallas “maintained pressure” with Israel.
Source: BFM TV
