According to the Ministry of Health, almost 550 people died and more than 4,000 died in the huge lines that form near the distribution centers
The President of the States, proved to be optimistic on Friday (27) about a new truce in, as criticism of civil deaths increases in food distribution centers supported by Israel in this territory devastated by war. Gaza is devastated for more than 20 months of war between Israel and Hamas, triggered on October 7, 2023. “We believe that until next week, we will get a ceasefire,” Trump said when questioned by journalists about the possibility of an agreement between both parties.
During the last days of Joe Biden’s government, Washington obtained a ceasefire with the support of the Trump transition team. But Israel broke the truce in March, with a new devastating offensive in Gaza and a humanitarian block for more than two months, which caused serious food and medicine. The blockade was partially raised in late May, when food supply was resumed through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), reinforced by the United States and Israel, and in which outsourced American security companies participate with Israeli troops on the outskirts.
“Militarized” system
UN Secretary-General António Guterres reported on Friday that there is a “militarized” system of humanitarian aid distribution that “kills people” in the Gaza Strip. This Friday, at least 80 people died at different points of Palestinian territory for Israeli bombing or shots, the local Civil Defense announced. Ten of them were killed while waiting to receive humanitarian aid. On Thursday had been an especially lethal day, with 65 Palestinians killed by Israeli shots, according to rescue services. Seven of them had compared to a center of the GHF.
“People die simply because they try to feed the same people and their families. Collecting food should never be a death sentence,” said UN Secretary-General in New York. Israel responded by accusing him of alignment with Hamas. GHF “has directly provided more than 46 million meals to Palestinian civilians, not to Hamas” since the end of May, the Ministry of Israeli Foreign Affairs replied on network X. “However, the UN does what it can to oppose this effort. In doing so, the UN aligns with Hamas,” he said. Trump, in turn, defended Washington’s action through GHF. “We are providing, as we know, a lot of money and food to this region,” said the leader. “These crowds of people who have nothing to eat,” he said.
‘Massacres in Series’
The NGO Doctors Without Borders also accused GHF of being a “food distribution simulacrum that produces series massacres”. Since the Humanitarian Foundation began its operations, occurrences of chaos, with numerous human losses. Netanyahu defended the army’s performance and “categorically” a article from the leftist Israeli newspaper Haaretz, according to which Israeli soldiers received shot orders against unarmed civilians who were expected to receive humanitarian aid in Gaza. “They are malicious lies designed to tarnish Israel’s defense forces, the most moral army in the world,” Netanyahu denounced this Friday in a statement.
The 80 people killed today, ten “expected humanitarian aid” in three different places of Palestinian territory, explained a Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal. Sought by AFP, the Israeli army said it was checking the spokesman’s statements, but categorically denied that its soldiers shot people waiting for help in the center of the Gaza Strip, where, according to Bassal, there was a death. Another six people died in the south, when they tried to reach a GHF food distribution center, and three more, waiting for humanitarian aid in the southwest of the city of Gaza, in the north of the track, according to the Civil Defense.
550 dead since the end of May
According to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, a territory ruled by Hamas, almost 550 people died and more than 4,000 died in the huge lines that form near the distribution centers since GHF began operating in late May. GHF states that its operations have developed without setbacks and denies that fatal shootings have occurred in the vicinity of their help points. At the same time, the Israeli army continues its military operations and bombing in Gaza, as part of an operation against Hamas in reprisal for its attack of 7 October 2023.
This attack caused the death of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP balance based on Israeli official data. In addition, Islamic militiamen kidnapped 251 people, of whom 49 sequences in Gaza, including 27 hostages that, according to the Israeli army, died in captivity. In response, Israel launched relentless intervention in Gaza, where 56,331 people have already died, also civilians, according to the Ministry of Health of the Hamas Government Territory, whose numbers the UN considers reliable.
Posted by Luisa Cardoso
*With information from AFP
