It is a controversial organization that recognizes itself that the food aid distributions organized for the gazaouis “are not perfect”, according to its spokesman Chapin Fay.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) continues its operations in the Gaza Strip, despite its methods reported by several other NGOs and the UN. The latter refuses to collaborate with this organization.
“We came to help and feed them”
To defend itself, Chapin Fay remembers that the Palestinian enclave is “an active war zone”, but says “it is better and better every day.” In BFMTV this Monday, July 28, he says he saw “hungry and desperate people who die of hunger” in the Gaza Strip.
“We loaded eight food trucks, it represents thousands of boxes and palettes. Thousands of Palestinians came very quickly to have help,” he said.
When describing the operational mode of your organization, you share in our antenna the “innovative desire” of your association “to feed as many people as possible.”
“We have kept part of the aid for women and children. Once the crowd began to disperse and the men left, there were lines of women and children who formed. They sat and came to help and feed them,” describes Chapin Fay in our antenna.
For the UN, GHF is not “neutral and independent”
Many international organizations criticize the methods of the Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza, with the support of Israel and the United States. The UN spokesperson for the UN Secretary, Stéphane Durric, has already indicated that the organization does not respect the principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence. “
According to the UN figures shared on July 22, more than 1,000 people have been killed since the end of May trying to get help, the vast majority of which near the GHF Foundation.
His distributions give rise to chaotic scenes, Tsahal shot several times to try to contain hundreds of desperate gazaouis.
“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.
Another criticism, doctors without borders deplora that GHF distribution sites are “all located in areas completely controlled by Israeli forces after the inhabitants have moved by force, are the size of a football field and are surrounded by observation posts, earth grounds and spike wire.”
“Its fenced entrance allows only one access point,” MSF deplored in a press release at the end of June. The NGO expects this “mechanism for the distribution of fatal foods established by Israel and the United States” to be arrested immediately. “
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.
Malnutrition levels “alarming”
The Hebrew state has slightly loosen its vice in the Palestinian enclave, announcing a break from the struggle, in certain sectors of the Palestinian territory devastated by almost 22 months of war. The first trucks loaded with help crossed the border from Egypt to the strip of besieged and hungry.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malnutrition rates in Gaza’s strip reach “alarming levels.” “Malnutrition follows a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a death peak in July,” the WHO said in a statement this Sunday.
Some 2.4 million Palestinians have been besieged there since the beginning of the war launched by an attack against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, 2023 on Israeli soil.
Source: BFM TV
