The inhabitants of Gaza are hungry, and one of the only ways they can obtain food is to risk death by going to a distribution of aid managed by the famous humanitarian foundation (GHF), supported by Gaza, supported by the United States (GHF).
The Sanad agency in Tel Aviv Tribune analyzed the Satellite imagery of the GHF AID Distribution Center in the Shakoush region in Rafah, taken on July 13.
We draw the journey of hungry people desperately waiting for hours, sometimes days, to walk a glove of Israeli tanks, armored vehicles and drones where they risk being shot by Israeli soldiers.
Here is what they have to go through:
How do people enter the center?
It is far from being as simple as “getting there”. People are allowed to take vehicles or carts to a particular point, after which they have to land.
This point is at least 1.5 km (0.9 mile) of the distribution center, which means that they should start this distance again by carrying the bags or the food boxes they can obtain.
To try to make sure they get something, people are starting to arrive at hours or even days before the center distributes. Once arrived, they do not leave because they do not want to lose their place, because some have already worked for hours to get there.
What is “Al-Joura”?
Wanting to avoid waiting in the open air, people hurry over a distance of about 560 meters (1,800 feet) after an Israeli barrier in “al-Joura”, a sandbag between the dunes, where they are looking for a blanket for Israeli balls and settled to wait an unknown period.
Physical difficulties are aggravated by unbearable heat and long expectations, because families often arrive from 12 to 24 hours earlier to wait for a “Go signal” to obtain food.
What happens when the “Go signal” arrives?
Usually, hearing the “Go signal” – normally drones in ruffles – means that people can approach the aid distribution point, which is still about 1 km (0.6 mile).
But things often do not work this way, and the risk of shooting increases considerably from here.
In addition to the full military control over Rafah, the Israeli army has barriers and many military vehicles surrounding the aid distribution point.
Witnesses say that the nests of Israeli elite shooters, drones and military outposts strengthen this control.
The displaced Palestinians await a signal from the Israeli army, which tells them that it is sure to go to the help site. However, witness reports say that people have been killed even when they waited for a “Go signal” to the center.
The video published by Palestinian activists on July 14 showed an Israeli fire on crowds in al-Joura, a few moments before their approach to the distribution door.
On July 12, Israeli forces killed 34 people while waiting for food aid on the GHF website.
So, the people who go to the distribution center are ok?
No, not always.
In addition to the general ill -treatment with which the Palestinians faced in the hands of Israeli soldiers, the video became soldiers who turned Palestinians at the forefront while they are approaching the center.
What does it get help?
For people who arrive at the center of the center, the fight is far from over.
Rafah’s journalist Muhannad Qeshta himself discussed the aid distribution process with Tel Aviv Tribune.
He described scenes of chaos fed by poor coordination, a lack of clear distribution calendars and a total absence of measures to organize the crowd.
People rush into the center, where tables have been installed with aid packages stacked above. It becomes a free for everyone, with desperate people who grow and fight to get any amount of food they can manage.
Most end up leaving empty -handed hands due to overwhelming demand and limited supplies, without order imposed on who obtains a help package.
Those who get food must come back to the same road where hundreds or thousands of hungry people are still trying to make their way in the help center.
The difficulties broke out while desperate people try to tear the food from the arms of each other.
Who are victims of help?
On Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health published a press release on its Telegram channel, offering an update on “victims of aid”.
The ministry said in the past 24 hours, 31 people died and more than 107 injured when they arrived in hospitals. This increased the total number of deaths of “subsistence victim” to 922 and injuries to 5,861.
On July 16, at least 21 Palestinians were killed during a stampede while he was trying to receive food rations.
According to an assessment supported by the United Nations published in May, one in five people in Gaza is currently faced with famine due to Israeli blocking on food and aid, while 93% of the population suffers from serious food shortages.
Why is GHF “notorious”?
Faced with international pressure to leave aid to Gaza and want the already established UN touch and international agencies that worked there, Israel proposed the GHF, saying that it had to prevent help from turning to the Palestinian group of Hamas.
Israel has had no evidence of food and medical help to divert towards combatants or to be used for something other than their objective.
The UN and humanitarian organizations argue that the GHF plan violates fundamental humanitarian principles.
UN humanitarian leader Tom Fletcher told the Security Council in May that GHF “restricts aid to a single part of Gaza while leaving other disastrous needs”.
He argued that the GHF makes conditional aid for political and military objectives, transforms famine into a negotiation tool and serves as “cynical slideshow” and a “figurine sheet for new violence and displacement”.
Eleven humanitarian organizations and human rights have signed a statement in which they judged the GHF “a project led by western and military security personalities, coordinated in tandem with the Israeli government”.
