Today, three Palestinians were killed and 35 injured by an Israeli fire near a help distribution center in the southern city of Rafah of the Gaza Strip. The attack one day after Israeli tanks opened fire on thousands of desperate and hungry Palestinians on the same site, killing at least 31 people. One person was also shot down to another distribution site near the netzarim corridor in the center of Gaza on the same day.
There are currently only four sites of this type distributing food to the hungry population of Gaza of two million people who, for almost three months, were forced to cope with a complete Israeli blockade which prevented the entrance to all the aid in the enclave.
On May 19, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose a recovery of “minimum” aid deliveries in Gaza, having determined that imminent mass famine was a “red line” which could compromise eternal support from the United States, the traditional partner of Israel in crime and primary of his slaughter.
And yet, these mass killings suggest that the new “minimal” arrangement offers Palestinians a resolutely horrible choice: either die of famine or die trying to obtain food – and not, of course, that these are the only two options to die in a genocidal war in which Israel led to the indiscriminate bomb.
The aid distribution centers are managed by a new summary outfit called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), initially an Israeli idea that operates as a private aid organization recorded in Switzerland and the American state of Delaware. As the newspaper Guardian noted, the GHF has “no experience in the distribution of food in a famine area”. However, it has links with the United States and Israeli governments and employs former military officers and American intelligence.
It is therefore that the distribution of food in Gaza is now transpired under the supervision of American security entrepreneurs armed with hubs located near the Israeli military positions. The four sites that are currently operational are located in the center and southern Gaza while a large part of the enclosure population is in the North. To reach the hubs, many Palestinians must travel long distances and cross the Israeli military lines, putting their lives more in danger.
No mechanism is in place to distribute food to the elderly, sick or injured – not to mention hungry people unable to engage in such a physical effort in the hope of putting something in their stomach.
In addition, the GHF initiative feeds Israel’s forced travel plan by which surviving Palestinians will be concentrated in the south in preparation for their possible expulsion, according to the plan of the American president Donald Trump for a reborn Gaza strip largely devoid of Palestinians.
In other words, the GHF is not in Gaza to mitigate hunger or meet the needs of its population; The food distribution centers are rather a lucrative blow of public relations aimed at creating a “humanitarian” distraction of a continuous policy of famine and deliberate genocide.
The United Nations and the aid organizations castigated the armament of humanitarian aid when the situation was apparently too much to manage even for Jake Wood, the former American marine sniper who served as executive director of the GHF before his recent resignation on the grounds that it is not possible to implement this plan while strictly adhering to the humanitarian principle of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and impartiality and impartiality and impartiality independence.
The massacres of the last two days are not the first incidents to occur on the GHF watch. Since the launch of the initiative at the end of May, there have been many Palestinian murders near the distribution points. According to the Gaza Government Media Bureau, the total number of people killed while asking for help from this program has reached 52 so far.
And yet, the slaughter of the Palestinians in Gaza trying to engage in this human activity the most necessary to eat is hardly new. Recall that on February 29, 2024, at least 112 desperate Palestinians were massacred during the queue for flour southwest of Gaza City. Over 750s were injured.
After this particular episode, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced that the United States would have a ventilated food in Gaza, another expensive public relations show incapable of providing even a drop in the bucket in terms of humanitarian needs of the population. A simpler and more effective decision would obviously have been to put pressure on the Israelis to stop blocking trucks to enter Gaza on the ground – and for the United States to stop, stop bombing Israel with billions of dollars in aid and weapons.
It turned out that Airdrops can also be fatal, and just a week after Biden’s announcement, five Palestinians were killed when a parachute attached to a palette of aid did not open its doors. Admittedly, there are few more abominably ironic things than hungry people killed by food aid literally crashes on their heads.
Call this humanitarian slaughter.
Then there was the Humanitarian Aid of $ 230 million in Biden, which closed in July after only 25 days of service. It was strongly criticized by help groups as another expensive, complex and ineffective means of obtaining food and other aids in Gaza. But then again, efficiency has never been the point.
Now, if the beginnings of Gaza of GHF are an indication, the militarized distribution of food will continue to provide possibilities for mass murder while the crowds of hungry Palestinians meet around aid centers. The expression “pulling fish in a barrel” comes to mind – as if the Gaza strip was not already sufficient.
Admittedly, the idea of attracting hungry people with specific geographic points to facilitate the genocidal conquest of Israel is singularly diabolical. And while the United States persists in allowing the approval of the barrel fish of Israel, everyone at a distance would refuse to appease the arrangement longer.
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