Gaza is “the most confronted place on the earth,” said the United Nations, as Israel continues to block everything except a net of humanitarian aid when entering the band, where famine tracks the whole Palestinian population, and the Israeli army relentlessly bombs the besieged enclave.
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (OCHA), said on Friday that 100% of the population of 2.3 million Gaza was now on the verge of “catastrophic hunger”.
The “limited number of future trucks (Gaza) is a net – it is food on drop by drop,” said Laerk.
“The help operation we have ready to ride is in the process of operational that makes it one of the most obstructed aid operations not only in the world today, but in recent history,” he added.
The shortage of aid enters the enclave is under the control of a new dark NGO supported by Israel and the United States – Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Friday, sources in the Gaza hospitals told Tel Aviv Tribune that 20 people had been killed by Israeli troops while they were desperately attempting to get food at a GHF aid distribution point.
This distribution site, located near the Corridor of Netzarim of Israel, binding the territory, is the third to have been set up, after two distribution points were established in the southern city of Rafah.
Armed surveillance is administered 24 hours a day. “People tell us that the sites managed and operated by the GHF are counters from the place where the Israeli army is stationed. They can see the tanks, they can see armored vehicles, “said Hani Mahmoud d’Tel Aviv Tribune, reported by Gaza City.
Ten people were killed earlier this week by trying to access food distribution points, and the images showed that many were gathered in cage -shaped lines. Palestinians who do everything they can to get help to their family must risk Israeli fire and military forces.
“There are also reports of forced disappearances. Many families have reported that many of their children, family members, who have gone to the sites … disappeared when they were trying to have food,” said Mahmoud.
The aid delivery program was strongly condemned by United Nations officials and the humanitarian community, who accused the group of helping the objectives of the War of Israel by forcibly shifting the Palestinians under the guise of aid.
Critics argue that the currently inadequate aid could be securely extended to Gaza, if Israel would allow access to help and leave organizations that have experienced experience.
“Thanks to this dangerous and reckless approach, food is not distributed where it is the most necessary, but it is rather directed only to areas where Israeli forces choose to raise civilians,” said doctors without borders, secretary general Christopher Lockyear. “This means that the most vulnerable – especially the elderly and people with disabilities – have practically no chance of accessing the food they desperately need.”
Famine is declared in an area where at least 20% of households face a lack of extreme food. At the levels of famine deprivation, 30% of children suffer from acute malnutrition and at least four children out of 10,000 people die every day of famine or illness linked to malnutrition. Ocha said that at least 1 in 5 people in Gaza are currently facing famine.
Michael Fakhri, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, says that he is “sure to say that there is famine” in Gaza. Fakhri told Tel Aviv Tribune that Israel uses the aid “as bait for corral people” and pushes them out of the north and in militarized areas “.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza was already catastrophic when Israel imposed a total blockade on March 2, which made the conditions deteriorate even more. After increasing international pressure, the Israeli authorities said they would authorize minimum food and medication supplies in the band, but critical supplies would still not reach the people.
The threat of France’s sanctions
Friday, the choir of condemnation against Israel was underlined by French president Emmanuel Macron. The French chief warned that Paris could “apply sanctions” unless the Israeli government is responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Speaking during a visit to Singapore on Friday, Macron said that the international community could not remain passive while the Palestinians of Gaza faced a crisis of in -depth hunger which is “untenable”.
“If there is no answer in the hours and days to come online with the humanitarian situation, we will have to harden our collective position,” he added, suggesting that France could consider applying sanctions against Israeli colonists.
Palestinian daily deaths as a ceasefire remain uncertain
On Friday, at least 30 people were killed since dawn during attacks in the south of Deir El-Balah, northern Jabalia and in eastern Khan Younis.
The Israeli army has also widened its military operation on the ground, issuing new orders of forced travel for five areas in northern Gaza. According to a UN spokesperson, nearly 200,000 people have been moved to Gaza in the past two weeks by Israel’s travel orders.
Meanwhile, the hopes of an elusive truce did not remain unrealized. Hamas said on Friday that it currently examined a new proposal for an American ceasefire which, according to Washington, had been signed by Israel, but that in its current form will only “the continuation of murder and famine” in Gaza.
The press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said on Thursday that Israel had “signed” on the cease-fire proposal, and the Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, had submitted to Hamas for examination.
Trump said he thought that his administration will have an announcement later on Friday, “or maybe tomorrow”.
“We have a chance of that,” he told journalists from the Oval Office.
The details of the new proposal were not made public, but the senior manager of Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, told the Reuters press agency that, above all, he did not contain commitments from Israel to end his war in Gaza, withdraw from the enclave or allow the help of entering the territory of the war freely.