The Israeli army will resume on Saturday night the air launch in the Gaza Strip in the middle of The growing humanitarian crisis due to food shortagesS, has reported in a statement.
“After an evaluation of the situation carried out this afternoon, a series of actions have been initiated to improve the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip and refute the false statement of deliberate famine in the strip,” the note collects.
In this first aerial operation that, as detailed by the statement will be carried out in coordination with international organizations, the army and the COGAT (Israeli agency that manages civil affairs), some will be launched Seven pallets with flour, sugar and canned food.
During the past year, Israel has already launched this method of aid delivery that was criticized by international organizations by considering that it endangers the life of the Gazati. In fact, Dozens of Gazatis died with the launch of some of these pallets that derived in chaos scenes and stamped.
In addition, the army said in its statement that it will establish humanitarian corridors designated to “facilitate the safe movement of the UN convoyes that deliver food and medicines to the population.”
Since the end of May, UN agencies, which until then were responsible for the distribution of help, were relegated to the background with the arrival of the controversial Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza (GHF), backed by the United States, in whose militarized complexes more than a thousand people have died while waiting in the long lines.
“The army is prepared to implement humanitarian pauses in densely populated areas and will continue to operate to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure and eliminate terrorists in the activity areas,” he added.
Israel’s decision comes when Deaths due to malnutrition in recent weeks have shotespecially between children and babies. Only in the last 24 hours, five people have died because of malnutrition, including a baby and two children.
There have also been in these last days more critical and pressure from the international community, added to the complaints of media and international organizations to the restrictions that Israel has continued to impose on the entry of food, medicines and fuel to a strip of gaza devastated by the bombing.
The images of skeletal Gazati children in the absence of food have occupied some of the main covers of the international press. This Saturday, the Gazatí government warned that, if in the next few days did not enter formula milk and nutritional supplements ,.
“The Army emphasizes that there is no famine in the Gaza Strip; it is a false campaign promoted by Hamas. The responsibility for the distribution of food to the population of Gaza falls to the UN and the international organizations of humanitarian aid,” the Army insists in its statement.
