On the cover of newspapers worldwide, images of emaciated children. Hungry women and men who ask for some food. After months of war and siege, the Gaza Strip is threatened with a “generalized famine,” alerts the UN. Donald Trump’s interview, who worried this Tuesday, July 29, with a “true famine”, moving away by spending his Israeli ally Benjamin Netanyahu, whose ministers continue to deny their existence.
“Many people are starving,” he told the US president, announcing the establishment of food distribution centers in the Palestinian enclave, “where people can enter freely, without limits.”
Rare fact: the American emissary Steve Witkoff was on the site this Friday to inspect the humanitarian aid distribution sites and meet the residents. Against the famine, the only hope of the 2.4 million people living in the Gaza Strip is humanitarian aid, whose distribution has resumed in mid -May by the Israeli decision.
Two types of humanitarian aid arrive, with difficulty, in Gaza: an orchestrated by the World Food Program (PAM), transported by truck or fallen by the air; The other, under the name of the Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza (GHF), orchestrated by Israel with the financial support of the United States and that gives rise to chaos scenes.
1,400 Palestinians killed in distributions
The last example, Thursday, July 31, with the discovery of the bodies of several dozen men killed by bullet around trucks that transport food, reports an AFP correspondent. The civil defense has already reported the day before at least 40 people killed by the Israeli army fire, most of which expected “help in northern Gaza.”
“The Israeli army allows the trucks of the Global Food Program to pass through the crowd. And there, people take bags and the Israeli army open fire,” denounces BFMTV Jean-Guy Vataux, emergency coordinator of doctors without edges (MSF) in Gaza.
“There are still many bullets that are thrown in the back. Therefore, the idea that the Palestinians want to attack the Israeli army that defends it by shooting it, it is clearly flan,” he said.
Almost 1,400 Palestinians have been killed since May 27 at the Gaza Strip, “the majority” by the Israeli army when they waited for humanitarian aid, they accused the UN this Friday.
“Most of these murders have been committed by the Israeli army,” said the Office of the Palestinian Territories of the High Commission of the United Nations. On the Internet and in the media, the images of empty humanitarian aid loads are numerous, the phenomenon is in the heart of the war between Hamas and Israel, in the field, this time, of communication.
Mutual accusations
The two enemies are jointly accused of looting on the roads that lead to Almacenes, which prevent humanitarian aid being sent to Gazauis, in an instrumentalization of famine for its benefit.
With, in recent days, another illustration of this war of opinion: on Tuesday, the Israeli authorities said 200 humanitarian aid trucks had been transmitted in the gaza strip and the food fell through the air.
“Hamas stole the food of his own people. Israel acted,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in the process on Wednesday in X. And in Hamas to replicate accusing Israel “of organizing famine” by “transforming food into a slow weapon of death and humanitarian aid into a tool of chaos and disturbing.”
Professor of Science Po Paris and specialist in the Middle East, Jean-Pierre Filiu represents with BFMTV “a world without law, a world without rules, where all the norms of the humanitarian law are violated, where the United Nations are humiliated, where there are mercenaries that benefit from this scandal and this terror.”
“General Chaos”
In a closed enclave and under control, it is difficult to unravel to the true of the false “between two resolutely opposite and contradictory narratives,” as David Rigoulet -rez, a researcher at the French Institute for strategic analysis (IFAS), adding that the situation in Gaza is “of chaos” in the enclave.
“Israel systematically rejects accusations of obstruction to the distribution of humanitarian aid, evoking the embezzlement of the embezzlement of this aid by Hamas, which, on the other hand, does not intend to give up its domain of distribution, explains the specialist in the Middle East.
And to add: “In addition, the looting of this humanitarian aid by criminal groups also seems proven, even if this does not explain the large -scale humanitarian disaster, which is a reality that is difficult to question.”
“The great argument of the Israeli government for the Humanine Foundation of Gaza and today for the drops, is that we do not want Hamas to benefit from it. Therefore, it is obviously ridiculous, since the characteristic of the distributions of the Humaninitary Foundation of Gaza, is that there is no control over who recovers food,” said Jean-Guy Vataux.
Who are the “Palestinian gangs”?
In a report, the American government agency USAID also confirmed that he had not found any evidence of Hamas systematic looting, which accuses Israel of retaining the militias of food or finance responsible for doing so. In Gaza, the NGOs denounce the unharmed transport of humanitarian aid, when Israel accuses them of not taking care of certain rented trucks in the area and praises food distributions, although chaotic and murderers, of the GHF.
“These looters are quite linked, even directly, in the Israeli army,” said Professor Jean-Pierre Filiu. NGOs denounce that “Palestinian gangs” would have been recruited within the local civilian population and would be funded by the Hebrew state to divert humanitarian aid, store or resell at gold prices: it is estimated that almost half of the shipments are taken before they can reach the population.
And NGOs are not the only ones who have this speech. Former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman brought this accusation during an interview on the radio, in Kan News, transmitted by Liberation. According to him, the Israeli government provides weapons to these militias.
These “Palestinian gangs” are formed by “young people who have no chance of having any income and are ready to risk their lives. They go there every day, it is their work to get food in the sites, where they have to play elbows and fight to bring food bags and then, two in three, are fired by the Israeli army,” says Vatale Jean-guy. “They are 17 to 30 years old because physical strength is needed,” he adds.
“It is an unbridled capitalism system that is working today with a hungry population,” summarizes, stating that “there is a deliberate will of the government not to give enough food to the Palestinians.”
The participation for the Israeli government and for Benjamin Netanyahu would be double, he said. The idea is to “let it pass enough so that one cannot be accused of not doing so”, in particular by the international community outraged by the situation in Gaza and “maintain support” and not risk “the diplomatic isolation that is deadly long -term.”
“Emergency Aid”
This Friday, August 1, France threw 40 tons of food above the Gaza Strip, welcomed the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and his Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barot, who emphasizes that this “emergency help” is obviously insufficient. “
Jean-Guy Vataux of Physicians Without Borders denounces “a smoke screen” aimed at “calming the outrage of the part of the French citizens exasperated by the situation.” “40 tons are two trucks and trucks, 400 per day are needed,” he insists.
And to deplore: “It is a famine that affects all social classes, several degrees, of course, but in general, that does not affect the entire population.” Since October 7, 2023, at least 60,000 people, mostly civilians, have died in Gaza, according to data from the Hamas Ministry of Health, considered reliable by the UN.
Source: BFM TV
