Chaotic scenes from gauze strengthen criticism at the expense of a controversial foundation
A private organization with which Israel wants to create a bypass around the United Nations agencies When delivering humanitarian aid into gauzethe day after one of her distribution centers flooded thousands of desperate Palestinians, according to those responsible, there were activities smoothly, while criticizing her methods of activity intensified in humanitarian circles.
United Nations representatives reported that at least 47 people were injured in the chaos that broke out in front of the distribution center in Rafa, south of Gaza, and authorities also reported three deaths in the Palestinian enclava. UN Human Rights Office Head of Palestinian Territories Ajith Sunghay He claimed that most of the wounded were shot and the responsibility for their injuries was attributed to the Israeli army based on known information so far.
Philippe Lazzarini, Head of the UN Agency to help Palestinian refugees: « Yesterday we saw shocking images of hungry people who are fencing in desperate food search. » Photo: Kazuhiro Feet/AFP
According to the UN representatives, most of them were injured in Tuesday’s hirt at the distribution center. Photo: Reuters
On Tuesday, she confirmed that her members had intervened when thousands of people crashed into a distribution center in the hope that they would receive food packages, but stressed that they were shooting only in the sky. In this explanation, in a statement of AFP Today also insisted by an army representative, Colonel Olivier Rafowiczsaying that Israeli soldiers were « in no case shot in the crowd. »
Chaotic, unworthy, dangerous
The events in Rafi clearly warned the dimensions of the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, where more than two million people live in fear of hunger. Under even greater scrutiny, it also placed a controversial foundation, which is trying to privatize humanitarian activity in the enclava, thus allegedly preventing the help of civilians in Hamasa’s hands.
Authorities in Gaza, consisting of members of the extreme Palestinian movement, described Tuesdays as a « intentional massacre and a complete war crime, cold -blooded against civilians, weakened after more than 90 days of starvation due to siege » and « undisputed evidence of the complete failure of the Israeli occupation in controlling the humanitarian disaster. »
Convicts of the alternative system of delivery of assistance to gauze were also strengthened by the United Nations agencies, which have been exposing the controversial methods of GHF for weeks for weeks, pointing out that they are in the middle of humanitarian standards such as independence and impartiality.
From a mysterious organization, in response to Tuesday’s events in Rafa, they announced that they opened another distribution center today and distributed a total of 14,500 assistance packages, which is supposed to be sufficient for more than 840,000 meals. Photo: Hatem Khaled/Reuters
“Yesterday we saw the shocking images of hungry people who are fencing in desperate food search. It was chaotic, unworthy and dangerous, ”she reports Reuters saying Philippe LazzariniHead of the UN Agency for Assistance to Palestinian Refugees (Unrwa), and expressed his belief that the Israeli-American attempt to create a bypass around existing humanitarian channels is « wasting resources and distraction from atrocities. »
Foundation continues to enjoy US support
From the mysterious organization, which was helped by former US intelligence and security officials and businessmen, in response to Tuesday’s events in Rafa that they opened another distribution center today, and a total of 14,500 assistance packages, which should be sufficient for more than 840,000 installments, was reported.
Foundation, according to all, still enjoy the support of both Israel and the US President’s administration Donald Trump. At the US Foreign Ministry, in response to chaotic scenes from Gaza, they stressed that problems with distribution of assistance were not uncommon in such a demanding environment and rejected critics at the expense of GHF. « A real story is that help and food are moving to a large scale gauze, » she insisted Tammy Brucethe speaker of the State Department.
