Israel has re -authored the partial entry of private goods in the Gaza Strip beshed threatened with the famine, the COGAT, an organization of the Ministry of Defense by the Civil Administration of this Palestinian territory on Tuesday, August 5.
“A mechanism has been approved to gradually control and control the entry to the goods through the private sector in Gaza,” said a COGAT statement.
“The objective is to increase the volume of the aid that enters the Gaza Strip, while reducing the dependence on the collection of aid by the UN and international organizations.”
This measure is taken “after the decision of the Cabinet (of the Prime Minister) to expand humanitarian aid and after a preparatory work carried out by security services.”
Basic foods, baby foods, hygiene items …
To “establish this mechanism, the security system has approved a limited number of local merchants, subject to various criteria and a rigorous security control,” says the COGAT. The payment of goods “will only be made by bank transfer, under control and supervision.”
“Approved products include basic food products, baby food, fruits and vegetables and hygiene items,” Cogat said.
All goods will be subject to rigorous control by the authority of the land passages of the Ministry of Defense before entering the Gaza Strip, this organization underlines.
The Israeli army, “through the COGAT and in collaboration with security services, will continue to implement control mechanisms and monitoring of the entry of aid in the Gaza Strip, while taking all possible measures to avoid the participation of the Hamas terrorist organization in the transport and distribution of aid processes,” concludes the press release.
Humanitarian aid largely insufficient
Since the beginning of the war, Israel has been accumulated in a territory of 365 km2, already subject to an Israeli block for more than 15 years.
At the end of May, it raised the total humanitarian block at the end of May that imposed in early March, but only authorizes the entry of very limited amounts, considered insufficient by the UN. The Palestinian territory, totally dependent on humanitarian aid, is now threatened with a “generalized famine.”
According to COGAT, more than 300 help trucks entered Gaza on Monday, a higher figure than the average of the last days, and “hundreds of others are waiting to do it.” Air also fell 120 food plots, in cooperation with the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Germany, Canada and Belgium.
Hamas said that “only 95 help trucks entered Gaza on Monday, in a context of humanitarian disaster that worsens.”
“The majority have been looted due to the security state of the chaos established deliberately by the Israeli occupation as part of its systematic chaos and the hunger management policy, destined to dismantle social cohesion and experience the resistance of civilians,” the Islamist movement accused again.
UN agencies estimate that at least 600 the number of trucks necessary to help populations in the Palestinian territory.
Source: BFM TV
