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The international humanitarian team on the occupied Palestinian land expressed its rejection of Israel’s plan to deliver humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and stressed that it “contradicts humanitarian principles.”
The team said, through a late statement yesterday, Sunday, that Israeli officials “sought to close the current aid distribution system managed by the United Nations and its humanitarian partners.”
He continued, “They also sought to make the team agree to deliver supplies through Israeli centers on conditions set by the Israeli army, as soon as the government agrees to reopen the crossings.”
The team added that “the Israeli authorities – for 9 weeks – prevented all supplies to enter Gaza, regardless of their importance for people to survive.”
He pointed out that “this situation led to the closure of societal bakeries and kitchens, the depletion of supplies from the warehouses of humanitarian organizations and the spread of hunger among children.”
On criticizing the proposed Israeli plan, the international team said that “the design of the plan submitted to us means that large parts of Gaza – including the less powerful and weak people – will remain without supplies.”
The threat of lives
The international team stressed that the Israeli plan “is inconsistent with international humanitarian principles … it is dangerous, pushing civilians to military areas to obtain subsistence shares, threatening lives, including humanitarian workers, and increases the consolidation of forced displacement.”
The humanitarian team is a strategic body to make decisions, led by the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territory, and it includes heads of international international and international NGOs.
The United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres and emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher announced that the organization will not participate in any plan that does not adhere to global humanitarian principles: humanity, integrity, independence and neutrality.
Israel has been besieging Gaza for 18 years, and about 1.5 million Palestinians out of about 2.4 million in the besieged sector, without shelter after the extermination war destroyed their homes, and Gaza suffers from famine as a result of Israel closing the crossings in the face of humanitarian aid.
With absolute American support, Israel has committed since October 7, 2023 genocide crimes in Gaza, which left more than 170,000 among a martyr and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.
