He number of gazaties They have been killed When they tried to access food, it has already risen to more than a thousand since the controversial humanitarian foundation in Gaza began to operate in the strip, the UN agency for the Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) warned, who stressed that humanitarian assistance “is not a work for mercenaries.”
“Snakes shoot at the crowds as if they had a license to kill, it is a massive hunt for people with total impunity,” said the agency’s general commissioner, Philippe Lazzarini, whom Israel He denies the entrance in Gaza for more than a year.
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His words were complemented at a press conference this Tuesday by Unrwa Juliette Touma spokeswoman, who added that the agency’s international staff has been able to enter the Palestinian territories for almost six months for Israel’s refusal to extend them visas.
“We still maintain Palestinian personnel who endure in Gaza and the West Bank, doing a great job in very difficult circumstances,” Touma said from Amán, the Jordanian capital, by telematic route for the accredited press before the UN in Geneva.
The Israeli authorities They have blocked since March, even before the unilateral rupture of Alto El Fuego, the entry into the food strip and other goods of extreme need, and since mid -May it put in the hands of the Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza, created by Israel and the US, the work delivery work.
That foundation, which was official in Geneva (although the Helvetic authorities ordered their dissolution earlier this month), is linked to former military and former intelligence responsible for intelligence USAand the UN He refuses to collaborate with her.
The Israeli army killed at least 52 Gazatis on Sunday and wounded 120 after opening fire against a group of people awaiting the arrival of trucks with flour. Photo: EFE/Red Crescent Palestine
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“Its alleged distribution methods are a sad mortal trap,” said Lazzarini, who said they are the United Nations and their humanitarian partners “who have the experience and resources necessary to provide safe, dignified assistance and with the necessary scale.”
This help should not only include food, but also other basic goods such as diapers, added Touma, who said that in Gaza Many mothers use plastic bags to supply the lack of these essential products for their babies.
“More than 6,000 trucks with humanitarian aid wait in Egypt and Jordan Green Light to be able to enter Gaza, ”added the UNRWA spokeswoman, a UN Agency to which Israel has repeatedly accused of having members of Hamas among her staff in the Fringe.
