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UN rejects Israeli ‘scheme’ to bypass humanitarian aid routes
A group of UN and non-government organisations working together to coordinate humanitarian assistance to Gaza has issued a statement rejecting Israel’s plan to sidestep humanitarian organisations after it blocked all goods from entering Gaza for 64 days.
“Israeli officials have sought to shut down the existing aid distribution system run by the United Nations and its humanitarian partners and have us agree to deliver supplies through Israeli hubs under conditions set by the Israeli military, once the government agrees to re-open crossings,” The Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) said in a statement.
“The UN Secretary-General and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator have made clear that we will not participate in any scheme that does not adhere to the global humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality,” the statement added.
The humanitarian organisations said that their teams “remain in Gaza, ready to again scale up the delivery of critical supplies and services: food, water, health, nutrition, protection and more”.
They urged world leaders to use their influence to lift the blockade so that “significant stocks” waiting at the border could be delivered.
Israel wants to control the population with food indefinitely, dystopian horror.
‘The occupation cannot be a humanitarian mediator’: Gaza Media Office
Gaza’s Government Media Office has categorically rejected “the malicious Israeli plan to distribute aid through it, as an occupying force, which violates humanitarian principles and perpetuates the blockade”.
It said Israel is seeking to impose a new mechanism for distributing humanitarian aid through centres under the control of its army and subject to arbitrary security conditions.
“This transforms aid from a neutral humanitarian effort into a tool for political blackmail and collective punishment,” an office statement published on Telegram said.
“The occupation cannot be a humanitarian mediator; rather, it is the source and instrument of the tragedy. Gaza needs no more promises, but rather an immediate lifting of the blockade, the opening of the crossings, the entry of aid, and the restoration of human dignity, which the occupation violates every hour,” it added.
Israeli forces kill 19 Palestinians in early morning attacks on north Gaza
Gaza Civil Defence says that its crews have recovered the bodies of 15 people killed in an Israeli attack on three apartments in the Al-Rumuz tower in the al-Karama area of Gaza City. Ten people were wounded in the attack, the Civil Defence added.
Four people were also killed and five others wounded in an attack on the al-Attar family home in the al-Sultan area of Beit Lahiya, civil defence said in a post on Telegram.
