The bombs have silenced for five hours on the Gaza Strip. That is the time that the special envoy of the White House has passed to the Middle East, Steve Witkoffthis Friday at the Palestinian enclave. Together with the American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabeehave visited the humanitarian aid distribution points of the controversy Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (FHG), supported by Tel Aviv and Washington, where, in the last two months, hundreds of people walked by Israeli soldiers or American mercenaries have died. At least 42 people have died in Gaza, including 15 aid applicants, since this morning.
“By order of the US president, Huckabee and I met yesterday with Israeli officials to talk about the humanitarian situation In Gaza, ”Witkoff explained in X on his trip to Israel started on Thursday.“ Today we spend more than five hours in Gaza, analyzing The facts on the groundevaluating the conditions and meeting with the Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza, and other agencies; The objective of the visit was to provide the president with a clear understanding of the humanitarian situation and help elaborate a Plan to deliver food and medical aid To the population of Gaza, ”he said, without specifying anything about this new plan.
In turn, the US president Donald Trump He has talked about Gaza by phone with the news site Axios. “We want to help people. We want to help you live. We want to feed it. It is something that should have happened a long time ago, ”he said in a call in which he also has blame for Hamas to steal and sell the help that has entered Gaza. Before, Trump described the Israeli prime minister, Binyamine Netanyahuas “a competent person” in statements to the US NBC chain. “We want to make sure that people receive food,” Trump said, adding that a “good management” will prevent the theft of help. “Hopefully the Israelis provide it,” he concluded.
“War crime”
Israel continues to insist that the controversial FHG sites must continue to function as the Israeli authorities allow the Entry of more help to Gaza. This organization was created to avoid the United Nations, and Israel is not willing to abandon it, despite the resistance of the International community to collaborate with her in any way, because she is accused of violating humanitarian principles. The concern has reached the American Senate to the possibility that US citizens can be declared responsible for the death of the hundreds of Palestinians killed by trying to get help in one of those sites.
Human Rights Watch He states that Israeli troops in the FHG sites have killed Palestinian aid applicants in acts that constitute war crimes. “The serious humanitarian situation is a direct result of the use of Israel of the Hungry for civilians as a weapon of war – A war crime – as well as the continuous intention crime against humanity of extermination and acts of genocide”, Have denounced in a report published this Friday. At least 159 people have died of starvation throughout the enclave since the beginning of the war against Gaza in October 2023. About 90s are children.
More than 1,300 dead waiting for help
The United Nations has also spoken about deaths in these supposedly safe sites. The organization’s human rights office has denounced that a total of 1,373 Palestinians They have died while waiting for help in Gaza since May, when the FHG took over the food distribution. Of these, 859 died near the help sites administered by FHG and 514 died while waiting in the Food convoys routes. “Most of these murders were committed by the Israeli army”, Added. A few days ago, the Israeli authorities announced the establishment of“ humanitarian pauses ”and safer routes to facilitate the access of poor help.
However, Israeli attacks have continued aggressively and change has been minimal. “The slight increase in what is coming is not enough to cover the surface of the people’s needs here on the ground ”, he said Olga Cherevkomember of the United Nations Office personnel for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, to Al Jazera From Deir El-Balah, in Center of Gaza. “People keep starving, malnutrition rates continue to increase, people risk their lives to get food and really There is no substantial or operational change “he added while he has pointed to the huge bureaucratic restrictions to help flow as the main difficulty in reverse widespread malnutrition.
Subscribe to continue reading
