At least 31 Palestinians died on Sunday for the shots of Israeli forces in the center of food distribution in Rafakh, in gas, according to witnesses. According to the witness and medical workers on Monday, on Monday there were three dead. And on Tuesday, again, Israeli troops killed another 27 people, according to accusations of Gazati.
These events strengthened the criticism of the new gas distribution system, the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GAF), controlled by Israel and supported by the United States, and not the UN and humanitarian aid organizations of accredited solvency. The Supreme Commissar of the UN Human Rights, Volker Turk, said on Tuesday that the Palestinians have an impossible dilemma in front of them: “Hurry to die or risks being killed when trying to get access to low affordable food.” Civil attacks are a war crime, he added.
What do we know about the incidents of recent days?
Three events occurred in the same area, not far from the ring interchange of al-Alam, about one kilometer from the GHF distribution center in Rafaha. The Israeli army was not present in the same place – controlled by American contractors – but controls the surrounding areas.
Saved workers and witnesses said on Sunday that the Israeli forces began to shoot when people began to gather in order to collect bags of food. Israel denied the shooting “close or inside” from this place, but the Israeli military source later admitted that “warning shots were made in relation to several suspects,” about a kilometer. GHF denied that during his operations there were “wounds, low or incidents.” The Civil Defense Agency in Gaza reported that 31 people and injuries of 176 were killed.
The Israeli army recognized on Monday, again made warning shots against “suspects who advanced to the troops and posed them a threat.” According to the Red Cross, three people died from shots, and dozens were injured.
On Tuesday, witnesses said that the shots began about four, as the crowd began to gather in the hope of giving food before it was exhausted. Mohammed al-Shaer told AFP that “the Israeli army shot into the air, and then directly to the people,” and that there was a helicopter and drones in the area, where there was a barrier that separated people from Israeli forces.
Israeli defense forces (IDF) said the “suspects” did not retire after the notification shots and “shoot several specific suspects who advanced to the troops”. In the statement, he defended that these people did not follow the “access routes specified” in the location of GHF. The fund said that civilians had to reach only the coastal route, the route that the expert announced Bi -Bi, was “neither safe nor effective”.
Local health workers said that there were 27 dead, at least three of whom were children. Mohammed Sakr, Director of Pediatrics in the Nasser Hospital, who received bodies, told Keeper This was a wounds from the Shrapnel, which corresponded to be the object of a tank or artillery fire.
What these facts tell us about how the GHF system works?
Evidence of the scene suggests that in addition to the Israeli forces, there are other factors that exacerbate the situation.
The food ends very soon every day, according to the indications that generate more chaos among people who desperately try supplies for themselves and their families. Even if all GHF centers open, large groups of people will be gathered in a very small place. Since there is only one open center, and you can get to it only from the point of view, the effect is aggravated.
And then there are great physical difficulties to make a trip for those who live far. “The achievement of the distribution point from here was three or four hours,” said Amjad al-Shava, director of the network of Palestinian non-governmental organizations in the city of Gaza.
“There are thousands of people for a very limited number of packets with food, so there are Torah.
Is a sufficient amount of food distributed?
GHF says that so far he has distributed more than millions of dishes, and that in the next few days he will continue to increase the volume. But on Tuesday, he announced that the distribution centers would close on Wednesday for “work on date, organization and efficiency.” The Israeli army warned that although the places were closed, the access regions would be considered by the “combat regions”.
The fact that the food ended so fast is a sample of how poorly adjusted demand and supply, which is desperate. According to UNICEF, almost the entire population of the strip, numbering about 2.1 million people. Every fifth is in the dangers of hunger, and about 71,000 children and 17,000 mothers need urgent treatment from acute malnutrition.
Is there any expectation that the process is improving?
As much as the GHF emphasizes the amount of food, which he has already distributed, there is reason to doubt that he can manage the centers in a more ordered way.
Its founder and executive director Jake Wood resigned last week, arguing that the organization cannot work consistently with “humanitarian principles”; On Tuesday, he was replaced by St. Johnny Moore. The substitute was appointed Commissioner for International Religious Freedom Donald Trump, but Moore does not have to know, not experience in complex assistance operations. On the other side, Washington Post He said that the Boston Consulting Group, which helped to develop the program, went to its team in Tel Aviv. Sources close to leadership are declared Mail This “the fund must continue to work without consultants who helped to create it.”
Since the situation worsens, Israel is faced with great diplomatic pressure from European countries and Canada. But the Trump government continues to provide absolute support, as shown on Wednesday, according to the UN Security Council resolution, which required access without restrictions to help.
Given such circumstances, it is difficult to imagine that the local situation is improving. “People have no choice but to continue,” admitted Shava, who warned: “Tomorrow they will return to food. But they will pay for this, their life. ”