US- and Israeli-backed aid system in Gaza an ‘abomination’
Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, has labelled the aid distribution system in Gaza that is run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) an “abomination and utter disgrace”.
“It is an inversion of all the global humanitarian principles about independence, impartiality and neutrality,” he told Al Jazeera.
The UN and aid groups say the GHF does not abide by humanitarian principles, accusing it of weaponising aid since it began operating in late May.
“As we’ve seen, around about 550 Palestinians have been killed in trying to get food there, to travel by foot, long journeys, and then the families worry whether they’ll ever come back again,” Doyle said.
Pointing to the lack of accountability and the urgent need to change the current aid system, Doyle described the situation as another example of where “Israel enjoys complete and utter impunity from any of the norms of war, of international law.
“This has to be dismantled now, and the proper systems of delivery and distribution of aid set back up,” he added.
Daily raids in occupied West Bank conducted to make life ‘miserable’
The large-scale campaign of Israeli arrests in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023 is part of a concerted effort to destabilise Palestinian communities and push young people out of the territory, analyst Amjad Abu el-Ezz has told Al Jazeera.
“This is a policy being conducted by the Israeli occupation power under justifications like October 7,” said Abu el-Ezz, a professor at the Arab American University in Ramallah.
“But the truth behind this policy is to create fear, to make our life in the West Bank miserable and difficult, and to push the Palestinian youth to leave the land and become immigrants in Europe or elsewhere.”
Moreover, he added that Israeli soldiers are conducting daily raids, arresting young people even in towns and villages that have seen no unrest.
“Why is this policy being conducted when some towns and villages don’t have any problems, don’t have any activities, but they’re still being targeted?” he questioned.
