Killings near Gaza aid centre will deepen criticism of Israel’s new distribution system

Witnesses and international medical teams reported terrible scenes of killing, as the Israeli forces opened fire on Tuesday’s hours before dawn on the Palestinians who were meeting at the new aid distribution site in southern Gaza. It was a “complete massacre” according to a foreign witness.

An official statement from the Israeli army describes a completely different picture. “Many suspects move towards the Israeli forces,” it is deviated from the specified access methods, “said many suspects. The forces “carried out a warning fire … additional footage was directed near a few individual suspects who advanced towards the forces.”

The killing of civilians who came in search of food aid will double the criticism of the controversial new system to distribute aid in Gaza.

The new relief centers in Gaza are a plan depicted by Israel with the support of the United States to replace the operation run by the United Nations and other experienced international relief groups. A new special body works, the Gaza Humanitarian Corporation (GHF), is employing armed security teams presented by an American company in its centers, which is now located in areas in southern Gaza under full Israeli military control.

GHF began after an Israeli -Israeli ban on food shipments and other aid in Gaza, leaving all populations at risk of starvation, according to the agency that collects data on food emergency situations on behalf of countries and the United Nations.

Israel claims that the United Nations staff stood as Hamas stole most of the aid coming to Gaza. The United Nations denies these allegations, as it insists that it can explain all the aid it distributes. He refuses to cooperate with GHF.

It is clear that the GHF system has basic defects, and it carries the worst concerns of relief specialists.

Jake Wood, GHF president, resigned slightly more than a week ago, that he would not be able to fulfill the principles of “humanity, neutrality, neutrality, and independence.”

The United Nations had a wide network of aid distribution points and providing components for common kitchens and bakeries that nourish hundreds of thousands.

The GHF system means that people must travel across a war zone in the ruins of South Gaza to collect a box of shares. The distribution appears to be messy, and it has been divided so far and repeatedly to free for all. The strongest young people can get help boxes for their families. Weaker do not get anything. There is not enough to wrap.

To approach the front of the waiting list, the Palestinians walk all night. Large gatherings of Palestinians, desperate to obtain food quotas that are difficult to manage by nature. It seems that this morning Israeli forces opened fire with fatal consequences.

In an interview with the BBC before the latest killings, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said that the GHF plan showed “a complete ignorance of civilians. Can you imagine people who were ever desirable for food, and medicine for about three months, and then they have to run for or try to get it in the most despair circumstances?”

He said that Israel’s behavior “shows the complete lack of respect for the laws of war to protect civilians.”

The GHF argument is better than nothing, and it provides a set of nutritional aid and can be expanded.

The argument against it is that Israel is used to control Palestinian civilians and the association. The Israeli ministers were open to the use of food aid as a war weapon. Defense Secretary Israel described it as a “crane” against Hamas.

The deadly turmoil surrounding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s operations comes at a time when Israeli allies, including the United Kingdom, France and Canada, are demanding significant changes in its behavior in Gaza, including allowing humanitarian aid needed to take care of more than two million people.

They have threatened concrete steps, probably sanctions and perhaps recognizing a Palestinian state, if Israel does not end its latest attack.

Western diplomats view the dismay of killing the hungry in Gaza, while deepening the international isolation of Israel.