Why are hundreds of Palestinians getting killed trying to access food in Gaza?

The Al-Awda hospital prosecutor’s office in northern Gaza is striated with fresh blood while 146 injured Palestinians are there while waiting to be treated after people were slaughtered while trying to reach a food aid distribution site.

The scene Tuesday was the last of the almost daily violent incidents near the aid centers a month after the distribution was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

The GHF supported by the United States and the GHF supported by the United States has sparked non-managed rescue operations in Gaza for having used private American entrepreneurs and forcing people to the past of soldiers of the Israeli defense forces on the perimeter to reach these hubs.

On Wednesday, 549 people were killed and more than 4,000 were injured when they were trying to reach GHF sites or wait for other aid trucks to arrive since the start of the new system on May 27, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

“We went to get food for our children,” Mahmoud Abu Armana, 26, said at CBC News on Tuesday.

“They said the [road] opened so that the vehicles entered and they started shooting on the working people. We were running … the [Israeli military] Pulverified us with their weapons. People started going to bed on top of each other.

“They opened the distribution center and told people to come and seize [the aid]. Why do they execute us? “”

Hospital officials claim that 19 deaths on Tuesday resulting from gunshots.

The Israeli army said that a rally overnight had been identified alongside the forces operating in the central corridor of Netzarim in Gaza, and it examined victims.

Deaths come as humanitarian groups and the United Nations agencies continue to slam the distribution system, saying that this obliges people to risk their lives by entering the combat areas where they are dismissed on several occasions while trying to access food.

Civilians and health officials in Gaza have largely blamed the death of the Israeli army. Several people told CBC News on the ground in Gaza that they had been dismissed by Israeli forces a few kilometers from the GHF sites.

The Israeli army said as part of several incidents that it had drawn from the warning plans on people who have approached its forces close to the aid sites.

The Palestinian gangs were also accused by witnesses for part of the violence that bursts near the areas where help should arrive.

The Red Cross said that the “vast majority” of patients who arrived at its Gaza Field hospital during mass incidents in the last month had indicated that they had been injured when they were trying to access the aid or around the distribution points.

Rachael Cummings, humanitarian director of Save The Children, says that blood effusions further while parents are trying to recover food for their children is the result of a “dangerous” aid mechanism which is “designed to fail” – pointing a range of causes, including a lack of confidence among the locals, an inability to reach the most vulnerable and the difficulties in controlling chaotic crowds.

Lack of confidence in the field

Cummings said that the key to distributing Gaza aid in a calm, safe and worthy way is the commitment and the relationship with the community.

“If people know that there is a predictable nature around distribution, they know today that this is not my day, but tomorrow will be my day, then [they] Can react calmly and once again, we can facilitate safe and worthy distributions, “Cummings told CBC News on Monday.

The distribution system that GHF uses “is not help, it is not humanitarian, it is not based on needs and it does not follow humanitarian principles,” said Cummings. “It is designed to fail. It is designed to be dangerous – and that’s exactly what we see.”

Cummings said that civilians complained of unpredictable opening time and quantities of food and no list of people who are eligible for food that day – causing “survival of the fastest” so that people can get their hands on vital assistance.

“People are forced to make decisions. They are not choices. They are forced to make decisions for their family’s survival,” she said, adding that she saw men carry knives for fear of being stolen by leaving with help.

In an email at CBC News, a spokesperson for the GHF denied that its three sites – two in the south of Gaza and one in the north – were dangerous, claiming that it has brought aid in a secure, controlled and responsible way – eliminating the risk of diversion “. He added that the group” works daily to establish confidence with people on the ground “.

In a report on Tuesday, GHF said that he had officially raised complaints with Israeli defense forces “possible harassment” by Israeli soldiers directed against his convoys who were on his way to his North distribution site.

Al-Awda treated dozens of injured in similar incidents last week. The hospital treated more than 60 injured and received 10 bodies of people who were killed after trying to obtain help from the GHF distribution center in the Netzarim region, Dr. Suleiman Shaheen said last week.

“It’s not [a] humanitarian [method] in the aid distribution. “”

While witness reports and human rights groups say that many shots did not seem to be provoked and occurred without warning, Israel said that his actions were necessary to control the crowds that constituted a threat to his troops or to prevent violations of limited areas.

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GHF working on “maintain secure corridors”

Since the end of May, GHF said that it has distributed nearly 35,000 aid boxes on its three “without incident” distribution sites.

“This contrasts strongly with the United Nations, which sees its invaded sites and its trucks looted by bad players,” the group told CBC News on Tuesday.

“We work in partnership with international monitors to maintain secure corridors for the civil movement, minimizing any exhibition to violence.”

The group said its sites had been managed by civilian humanitarian teams, who include local Palestinian partners.

“Our humanitarian workers are civil entrepreneurs trained in humanitarian operations, not combatants,” he said in the press release.

The GHF aid system was launched after a complete blockade The duration of almost three months on medical supplies, fuel and food imposed by Israel has been lifted in the territory.

The war in Gaza was launched when activists led by Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli accounts.

The Air and Terrestrial War of Israel in Gaza killed around 56,077 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, while moving almost the entire population of more than two million and walking a hunger crisis.

Last week, UNICEF said that the aid distribution system managed by GHF “aggravated a desperate situation”.

Apart from the aid distributed by GHF, Cummings said that non -governmental organizations in Gaza obtain “very limited” aid on trucks through border passages, most of which are arrested and looted after entry.

Despite the limited entrance help, Save The Children has helped provide drinking water to around 20,000 people every day in Gaza, even if there is a width Destroyed water infrastructure.

Unicef ​​also struck the alarm last week, saying that Gaza faces a drought caused by man As its water systems collapse, with only 40% of the drinking water production facilities remaining functional.

“Without immediate access and massively put on the fundamental means of survival, we risk a descent into famine, additional chaos and the loss of more lives,” said Tom Fletcher, emergency coordinator, said in a UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) in a statement Earlier this month.

“Hunger should never be encountered with bullets. Humanitarian workers must be allowed to do their job.”