A humanitarian official has warned that Israel is “engineering chaos and massacres” in the Gaza Strip by continuing to impede aid deliveries and setting fire to Palestinians who are desperate for food supplies.
Despite the recent increase in the flow of aid, Caroline Willemen, the project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza, told Al Jazeera on Friday that food is still “critically scarce” in the besieged enclave.
There is little evidence that enough aid will arrive on time, according to Willemen. People risk their lives every day on the verge of food, according to the statement.
In the previous 24 hours, two more people, including two children, died of hunger and malnutrition, according to the Gaza Health Ministry on Friday.
Since Israel’s war on Gaza first started in October 2023, 162 people have died as a result of starvation, including 92 children.
According to medical sources, more than 80 Palestinians were killed on Friday in Israeli airstrikes across the Strip. According to the sources, 49 people died and more than 270 others were hurt while requesting medical attention.
A global hunger monitoring system issued a warning on Tuesday that the “worst-case scenario of famine” was occurring, which has increased this week.
Top UN officials have criticized the plan as expensive and dangerous while urging Israel to grant unimpeded humanitarian access to Gaza despite Israel’s recent authorization of a number of aid airdrops.
According to Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), “if there is political will to allow airdrops, which are highly expensive, insufficient, and inefficient, there should be a similar political will to open the road crossings.”
The only way to combat the famine is to flood Gaza with aid because the people of #Gaza are starving to death.
Although there has been a slight increase in aid being allowed in, it is still grossly insufficient, according to Olga Cherevko, a representative with the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA).
She said, “The slight increase in what is entering is not nearly enough to even scratch the surface.” The demands are “overwhelming.”
Deadly events become a daily occurrence.
Palestinians in Gaza continue to seek aid at notorious locations run by the US- and Israeli-backed GHF while putting their lives at risk.
Palestinian resident Ibrahim Mekki claimed to have waited at least six hours and was at risk of being shot by Israeli forces just in time to get some bags of pasta.
He claimed to Al Jazeera, “It’s a trap, a game.” “Loving you a little, then starting to fire”
Since May, when the GHF began operating in the region, at least 1, 373 aid seekers have been killed in Gaza, according to the UN’s human rights office.
According to the office, 514 people were killed while waiting along food convoy routes and 859 were killed close to GHF-run aid facilities. The Israeli military allegedly committed the majority of these killings, it continued.
Additionally, MSF’s Willemen shared a terrifying incident from earlier this week when Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians trying to reach aid trucks close to the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza.
She claimed that as a result of the gunfire and the commotion, “people were hurt in the panic and flee”
“These obscene incidents have been occurring on a daily basis in Gaza for too long,” said the statement. Engineering chaos and massacres are the most popular distribution techniques right now.
Despite the recent massacres and growing international criticism of the group’s operations in Gaza, Israel and its top ally, the US, have continued to support GHF.
Steve Witkoff, the US ambassador to Israel, and US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, met there on Friday to “assess the situation” and speak with GHF.
According to Witkoff, the trip was intended to aid in “developing a strategy to provide food and medical assistance to the people of Gaza.”
Last month, the Trump administration announced that it had approved funding for GHF’s operations worth $30 million.
Source: Aljazeera
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