Death traps’: PFLP warns people in Gaza against approaching GHF aid centres
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has warned that aid distribution centres set up by the US and Israel in the Gaza Strip represent “collective death traps”, and warned citizens not to approach them.
The leftist group said these centres are being used to arrest people and are “part of the ongoing war of genocide” against Palestinians.
It also said the centres, set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), are being used as tools of displacement, forcing Palestinians southwards.
The GHF has faced criticism, including from the UN, that it is using humanitarian relief as a political tool.
Israeli army highlights ‘gradual opening’ of Gaza aid centres
The Israeli army says it has set up four aid distribution centres “in recent weeks” in Gaza. Two began operations today “as part of the gradual opening of the distribution centers”, it said in a statement. The sites are giving out food packages, it added, without specifying how many were distributed.
The centres were set up “in coordination” with the US government, a private US security company and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has been labelled “a distraction” by the United Nations.
The army’s statement comes as the UN announced it has no information on whether the GHF has actually distributed any aid in Gaza as famine looms.
