TEHRAN – Thousands of Palestinians on Tuesday reported that they had travelled through the fence to reach humanitarian supplies at a distribution site run by the previously unknown US-backed Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Rafa, southern Gaza.
The chaotic scene of hungry people was scrambling desperately for food. The scene was also recorded as humiliation for the Palestinians in Gaza.
According to eyewitnesses, around 50 people were injured due to the stampede. Also, Palestinians were killed as Israeli soldiers fired in the air to disperse hungry people.
“This is not a natural disaster. It is a brutal combination of manufactured violence and the indifference of the collective world. Gaza’s hunger is not a secondary damage, but a deliberate result of a policy designed by the Israeli government to maximize suffering and death.”
The wise man cannot understand why humanitarian assistance was suspended in the Gaza Strip for 11 weeks. The United Nations said Israel uses food as a weapon.
If Israel’s sole purpose was to prevent Hamas fighters from starving and surrendering, it would not have happened, but what was the sin of hundreds of thousands? The whole world, especially the Palestinians, will not forget these scenes where the Gaza people were intentionally hungry.
UNRWA chairman Philip Lazarini has accused the chaotic scenes of aid distribution points of “resignation” and “unsafe.”
Jens Larke, a spokesman for the UN Aid Coordination Agency, criticized the GHF Aid Program as “distracting things from what is actually needed, reopening all intersections within Gaza, a safe environment within Gaza, and a fast promotion of the permit and ultimate approval of all emergency supplies outside the border.”
Hardin Lang, vice president of policy and programs for refugees international, said the US- and Israel-backed aid initiatives are not humanitarian and run by the military.
The way food distribution was another reflection of the Israeli-US collaboration that has been in place since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, primarily induced by Israel.
When Paul Bremer disbanded the Iraqi army in May 2003, 400,000 Iraqi forces were kicked out of work. The move set the stage for the rebellion to the extent that secular army officers ordered ISIS terrorists when they invaded Iraq.
It was clear that the oceans of people suffering from large-scale hunger would not stay in line to receive food aid, especially as the amount of food being distributed is like a decline in the ocean.
“This is not a way you try to feed your population, but a much smaller population is on the hunger crisis,” he told Al Jazeera.
This is why the United Nations had predicted such a chaotic scene, and therefore refused to cooperate with schemes that did not respect the fundamental humanitarian principles of humanity, equity, independence and neutrality.