After more than 500 people were killed while looking for food in humanitarian aid distribution centers, the NGO denounces that Humanitarian Foundation Gaza was ‘created to humiliate the Palestinians’
A Ong The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF, Humanitarian Foundation) of being a “fictional food distribution system that produces series massacres” in the Palestinian territory and called for its dismantling. The food distribution system, supported by the United States and Israel, “seems to have been created to humiliate the Palestinians” in condemned MSF, denouncing that “more than 500 people were killed and nearly 4,000 were injured as they sought food in these places of distribution.”
MSF teams receive people dead or injured every day as they sought food at one of the distribution points. They also noticed a sharp increase in bullet injuries. Due to the restrictions imposed by Israel to the press in Gaza and the difficulties of access to the war zone, AFP cannot independently verify the reports of organizations on site. The foundation, which uses armed contractists to ensure safety in its centers, denies any incident during the distributions.
The operation is “a food distribution simulation that produces series massacres and should be interrupted immediately,” said the MSF. The NGO observed that GHF forces the Palestinians “to choose from starving or risking their lives for a derived amount of food.” Israel imposed a humanitarian blockade on Palestinian territory in early March, leading to a serious shortage of food, medications and other basic products.
The block was partially suspended in late May, when GHF began distributing help. “The four distribution centers, located in areas fully controlled by the Israeli forces after the forced displacement of their inhabitants, are the size of football fields and are surrounded by observation stations, land barriers and barbed wire. Its surrounded entrance allows only an access point,” explains Aitor Zabalgogeaska, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza.
“If people arrive very early and approach the control posts, they are shot. If they arrive on time, but there are a lot of people and jump the barriers and barbed wire, they are shot,” and “if they arrive late, they should not be there because it is an” evacuated area ‘, and they are shot, “he says. UN and humanitarian NGOs harshly criticize GHF and refuse to work with the foundation due to concerns about their procedures and neutrality.
*With information from AFP
