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Limited humanitarian aid entering Gaza just for show
Today is the fourth day since the Israeli military announced the opening of a humanitarian corridor, which only exists on paper because none of these aid trucks are making their way to the designated areas or people who are in need.
The vast majority of people are left without any proper access to food, and therefore, they resort to other alternatives, which are often dangerous or even deadly, like going to the Zikim area, for example, waiting for trucks to come in, or the distribution centres in the southern and central parts of the Strip.
Most people are not eating well. They’re not getting the food that they need to survive these conditions. There is agreement among people here that everything that has been happening [regarding the humanitarian aid] for the past four days has just been for spectacle.
Global community allowed ‘engineered starvation’ to take place in Gaza
It’s shocking that the international community allowed the situation in Gaza to get to the point that “we see children dying … from an engineered starvation,” Jamil Sawalmeh, country director of ActionAid Palestine, tells Al Jazeera.
“We know that aid is being blocked. We know that a significant amount of aid has piled up at the crossings, and unfortunately, it is quite shocking for us to see that the global community has allowed this to happen … because of impunity and because of lack of interest in political engagement to force Israel to abide by its obligations under international law,” he said.
“We have seen that Israel has actually enjoyed the diplomatic cover from many countries in the world, and they have allowed this to happen,” Sawalmeh added.
“The world has to act at this point, there has to be action, there have to be sanctions, and there have to be meaningful actions taken by the international community and the EU space to hold Israel accountable to its obligations under international law.”
Gaza mothers forced to give babies water as milk and formula run out
The youngest in Gaza are the most vulnerable to the starvation crisis caused by Israel’s months-long blockade of the Strip. Supplies of baby formula have run out, and food shortages are so severe that more than 88 children have died of starvation since the start of the war.
UN food security experts said the worst-case scenario of famine is now unfolding in Gaza.
