A warehouse of the world food program was looted by a crowd of Palestinians in Deir El-Balah in downtown Gaza, the UN body revealed, in a divergence with Israel about the delivery of assistance at the enclave. The crowd left nothing behind.
At least four people died, according to hospital authorities, when hundreds of Palestinians today invaded a food warehouse from the World Food Program () in the Gaza Strip, in a new episode of despair associated with food distribution.
The UN agency confirmed by its side two dead and several injured after “hordes of hungry” ran over a warehouse in Deir al-Balah, in the center of the territory.
“One Cultitude of Hungry People It invaded the warehouse for food that had been pre-posted for distribution, ”WFP said in a statement, insisting on“ safe and unrestricted humanitarian access to allow immediate and ordered food distributions ”in the Gaza Strip.
According to images from the agency France-Presse, they were scoop and the crowd left nothing behindtaking bags of food, wooden pallets and boards.
“WFP has consistently alerted to the deterioration of the situation And for the risks posed by the limitation of humanitarian aid to hungry people who desperately need assistance, ”he added.
The deaths in the center of Deir al-Balah occurred a day after a crowd was dispersed in shooting, allegedly by Israeli militarywhen invaded a new Humanitarian Aid Distribution Post in Rafah, southern Enclave, created by a foundation supported by Israel and the United States.
This incident provoked At least one death 48 injuredtoday informed the Ministry of Health of the territory. A Red Cross campaign hospital indicated that among the injured at the scene were women and children with bullet injuries.
Cross accusations
Israel accused the UN of try to block distribution help in the devastated territory for 600 days of war, while The UN insisted that it was doing everything This was possible to recover the limited amounts authorized by the Israeli authorities.
UN and other humanitarian organizations reject the new distribution system help with the Gaza Strip, stating that will not be able to satisfy The needs of the 2.3 million inhabitants and allows Israel to use food as an instrument of control of the population.
UN’s help has come to the territory gradually in the last two weeks, and the obstacles pointed to Israel are numerous.
Israel returned to open with the UN, this time about the Humanitarian Humanitarian System managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), created in the United States without the approval of the United Nations.
“The privatization of help and the use of help as a weapon constitute a very dangerous precedent. Not only in Gaza, but also in other conflicts ”, today warned the UN coordinator for the Peace Process in the Middle East, Sigrid Kaag, before the Security Council in a session on Palestine.
Israel defended this system and accused the UN of trying to sabotage himin a hard speech of your ambassador in New York, Danny Dany.
“Are using threats, intimidation and reprisals against the NGOs who decided to participate in the new humanitarian mechanism. The UN chose the wrong side once again: Not only does it refuse to condemn Hamasas well as being actively adding to him to block this help, ”criticized Israeli diplomat.
This discourse, accompanied by an attack on the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, adds to Numerous Disagreements of Israel with the UN, which accuses an anti-Semitic poison, to ally with Hamas and to doubt the versions of the events provided by Israel.
Insufficient aid
The Israelite army revealed that they entered Gaza 121 trucks carrying flour and food belonging to the UN and other humanitarian groups.
Most of the load has not yet reached the civilian populationaccording to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
OCHA warned today, in a statement that, since last week, about 800 trucks have been allowed to enter Gaza, But just over 500 of them They arrived on the Israelite side of Kerem Shalom and only the load of just over 200 trucks arrived on the Palestinian side due to “safety conditions and access restrictions ”.
The cabinet also denounced that the Israelite authorities continue to reject Attempts by humanitarian organizations to coordinate movements in Gaza, including a planned operation today to recover fuel in Rafah.
The Gaza Strip, with a population of about 2.1 million inhabitantswas subject to a blockade of help (food, medicines and other basic goods, such as fuel) for almost three monthsuntil Israel allowed limited access to goods last week.
Israel started a week and a half ago new terrestrial operation and aerial in the territory, after breaking the ceasefire in force in force in force with the Hamas Group.
The conflict was triggered by attack by the terrorist group Palestinian Hamas on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel, which made about 1,200 deadmostly civilians, and more than Two hundreds of hostages.
In retaliation, Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza Stripwhich has already provoked More than 54 thousand deadaccording to local authorities controlled by Hamas, the destruction of almost all infrastructures in the territory and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
