UN and major aid groups have refused to work with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Defeated them on the field, Now, eliminating them in defeat. No humanitarian effort in the Gaza as legitimate aid groups are pulling out due to the dangers at the sites to the Palestinians and the relief effort. Tr__p needs to get off of his ass and stop the slaughter.
Jared Kushner has praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property” and suggested Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the strip. Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’, Jared Kushner, The Guardian.
UN and major aid groups . . .
refusing to work with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on Friday for a controversial Israel and US-backed relief effort in Gaza to be halted, branding it “slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid”.
MSF in a statement about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, (which began operating last month) said the Foundation “is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies.”
It said more than 500 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip while seeking food in recent weeks.
Starting in March, Israel blocked deliveries of food and other crucial supplies into Gaza for more than two months, leading to warnings of that the entire population of the occupied Palestinian territory is at risk of famine.
United Nations Efforts
The United Nations says Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is illegal under international law.
The densely populated Gaza Strip has been largely flattened by Israeli bombing since the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas.
Israel began allowing food supplies to trickle in at the end of May, using GHF — backed by armed US contractors, with Israeli troops on the perimeter — to run operations.
The latter have been marred by chaotic scenes and near-daily reports of Israeli forces firing on people desperate to get food.
There are also concerns about the neutrality of GHF, officially a private group with opaque funding.
The UN and major aid groups have refused to work with it, citing concerns it serves Israeli military goals and that it violates basic humanitarian principles.
The Gaza health ministry says that since late May, nearly 550 people have been killed near aid centres while seeking scarce food supplies.
“With over 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid and must be immediately dismantled,” MSF said.
Surge in gunshot wounds
GHF has denied that fatal shootings have occurred in the immediate vicinity of its aid points.
On Tuesday, the United Nations condemned what it said was Israel’s “weaponisation of food” in Gaza and called it a war crime.
MSF said the way GHF distributes food aid supplies “forces thousands of Palestinians, who have been starved by an over 100 day-long Israeli siege, to walk long distances to reach the four distribution sites and fight for scraps of food supplies”.
“These sites hinder women, children, the elderly and people with disabilities from accessing aid, and people are killed and wounded in the chaotic process,” it said.
Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Gaza, said the four sites were all under the full control of Israeli forces, surrounded by watch points and barbed wire.
“If people arrive early and approach the checkpoints, they get shot. Arriving on time but there is an overflow and they jump over the mounds and the wires, they get shot,” he said in the statement.
“If they arrive late, they shouldn’t be there because it is an ‘evacuated zone’ — they get shot.”
MSF said that its teams in Gaza were seeing patients every day who had been killed or wounded trying to get food at one of the sites.
It pointed to “a stark increase in the number of patients with gunshot wounds”.
MSF urged “the Israeli authorities and their allies to lift the siege on food, fuel, medical and humanitarian supplies and to revert to the pre-existing principled humanitarian system coordinated by the UN”.
Between what Israel is doing to Gaza and the West Bank, I have to say the parallels to what this country did to the indigenous people of North America is stunning. I always thought what we did was abhorrent so I hope I can say that what Israel is doing is abhorrent without being called anti-semitic. Do not expect Trump to do anything because he has the same plan with respect to people of color in this country–and not just undocumented people of color. The GOP is fully on board as is a majority of SCOTUS. Perilous times indeed.
@Nilles,
At least the Zionist colonial project was motivated by the search for a homeland for a people who had been persecuted throughout much of the world and history. The ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples in North America had no such justification. A much closer parallel there is to the Nazi quest for Lebensraum in Eastern Europe and the Western USSR. Americans did it with smallpox, measles and bullets instead of tanks and gas chambers.
Terry:
You are fine.
You, we, they do not get to murder others indiscriminately. From my viewpoint, this is an equivalent to another My Lai.
A person who never did any community service, Tr__p will do nothing to halt the slaughter whether by bullets or starvation. He will have his resort by the sea at their expense. Just move them down the way and forget about them.
The plan is there and no one is saying anything.
In a manner of restoring integrity? Department of Homeland Security is sending Thousands of Haitians back to Hati. According to the DHS, this restores integrity to our immigration system and ensures that Temporary Protective Status is actually “temporary.” The danger still exists. Our population will decrease.
I subscribe to Chris Hedges Report site. A descriptive take.
In 1968/69, I was with Headquarters Bn 2nd MarDiv. We were waiting on orders to embark to the Mediterranean. The order never came. The purpose was to secure Israel.
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