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While the distribution of food and Gaza aid continues to be prey to violence and death, the influential clans and tribes that have long existed in the territory are trying to guarantee convoys of aid entering the region.
The national gathering of Palestinian clans and tribes, which helped escort a rare expedition of flour in the north of Gaza on Wednesday, said that it had started efforts together to keep the convoys of help and prevent looting.
Aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip have been limited, leading to scenes from chaos As vulnerable civilians are largely left aside when armed armed men and Israeli forces cause the violence that followed. Alaa El -Din al -Aklouk, one of the mukhtars – community leaders elected by large families who make up the clans – announced the plan on Wednesday with other leaders.
“The clans gathered to send a security and security message to the Palestinian people,” he told CBC freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife. “”[The clans] I will make every effort to provide help to those who deserve it … without any violence or abuse of others. “”
Since May 27, the Gaza Ministry of Health has at least said 549 people were killed And more than 4,000 were injured near the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites in the United States and Israeli or while waiting for the United Nations restoration trucks to enter. It is not known how many people killed or injured have been shot dead by the Israel Defense Forces (FDI), because criminal gangs were also present, according to witnesses who spoke to CBC News.
The GHF rejected the accusations that its aid distribution centers are dangerous, saying that it has provided aid in a “safe, controlled and responsible – eliminating risk of diversion”.
Look | Armed and masked men protect the convoy of help against looting:
Family clans take up arms to obtain convoys of help in the middle of current chaos on distribution sites and around trucks.
Investigation of war crimes
The latest efforts to obtain aid are involved as a military defender of Israel ordered an investigation Friday on possible war crimes concerning allegations according to which Israeli soldiers were ordered from the army to deliberately draw Palestinians trying to reach the aid distribution sites, according to an exclusive report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
Haaretz said that officers and soldiers, who were named, revealed that the commanders “had ordered the troops to shoot crowds to chase them or disperse them, even if they were clear that they were not threat”.
On Friday, in a statement to CBC News, a TSAhal spokesperson said that the army rejected the accusation made by Haaretz, saying that it did not indicate soldiers to deliberately draw civilians, including those who approached distribution sites.
“In the light of recent reports of incidents of damage to civilians who approached distribution centers, incidents are examined by the FDI authorities concerned,” he said.
The Israeli Prime Minister, on the other hand, denied allegations in a statement published on Friday.
“FDI soldiers receive clear orders to avoid harming innocent civilians – and they act accordingly,” said Benjamin Netanyahu.
Members of the rifle -armed clan, sticks
With the police infrastructure in Gaza collapsing in the middle of the war, the members of the clan took up arms to secure the aid trucks and ensure that they arrive at the barracks of non -governmental organizations (NGOs) in complete safety and, possibly, to the people.
On Wednesday, the trucks entered the region of Zikim in the west of the city of Gaza, armed and masked clans bordered the road – some with rifles and others with sticks. They checked the crowd and fired warning when someone was too close to the trucks.
“The securing of the aid will be carried out by the men of our clans,” said Al-Aklouk. “The clans have provided responsibility … so that it is delivered to all Palestinian households.”
There is an acute shortage of food and other basic supplies after the almost two years of Israel’s military campaign, which has moved most of the two million inhabitants of Gaza.
After a two-month-old ceasefire which broke down in March, Israel blocked the assistance supplies in Gaza for 11 weeks, which caused a famine warning of a global hunger instructor. Israel, who has only partially raised the blockade since, the veterinarians all help in Gaza and accuses Hamas of having stolen part, which the militant group denies.
Community leaders denounce the help flight
The Yazdan al-Amawi, director of the Gaza branch, Araera, an NGO which also operates in the West Bank occupied by Israeli, Lebanon and Jordan, said that it had safely received more than 20 aid pallets during its first expedition on Wednesday after more than 110 days, with the help of the clans.
“He was almost on the brink of famine [in Gaza]”Al-Amawi told CBC News.” We are so happy that women and children and the elderly will soon eliminate the rations of these products. “”
Look | The assembly deaths reported near the GHF help sites in the past month:
According to doctors, at least 20 people were killed and 200 others injured in Israeli fire near a Rafah aid distribution site, doctors said. Deaths are the latest mass shots that have killed at least 300 Palestinians in recent weeks, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, while they are trying to access food thanks to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution system supported by the United States.
Abu Salman Al-Mughni, another Mukhtar, said that the flight of the aid had been made by “bad apples” in the region which was not part of the community.
He blamed thefts to businessmen, who then increased the prices of goods on the local markets.
“The rights of the people are stolen and sold in this way,” he said. “And this is something that we will not accept and tolerate.”
“We will no longer allow thieves to steal the convoys of merchants and force ourselves to buy them at high prices,” said another man involved in the tribal effort, Abu Ahmad al-Gharbawi, at the Associated Press.
Israel accuses the Hamas of aid flight, stops distribution
On Thursday, Israeli officials said they would prevent help from entry into the north of Gaza for two days after a video was broadcast one day earlier, he showed dozens of masked men, some armed rifles but most of them carrying sticks, rising on aid trucks.
But Netanyahu, in a joint statement with the Minister of Defense Israel Katz, accused Hamas of stolen aid, saying that he had ordered the soldiers to present a plan within two days to prevent Hamas from taking control of the aid.
The national gathering of Palestinian clans and tribes replied, saying that no Palestinian faction – a reference to Hamas – had participated in the process. And Hamas denied any involvement.
An Israeli strike struck a street in the central city of Gaza de Deir El-Balah on Thursday, when witnesses said that people obtained bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit which had confiscated gangs of gangs loiling convoys.
The strike seemed to target SAHM members, a security unit responsible for arresting looters and repressing merchants who sell stolen aid at high prices. The unit is part of the Ministry of the Interior led by Gaza, but includes members of other factions.
There was no comments from the Israeli army during Thursday’s strike.
The video of the consequences showed bodies of several young men on the street with splashes of blood on the sidewalk and the walls of the buildings. The dead included a child and at least seven SAHM members, according to the neighboring Martyrs Aqsa hospital, where victims were made.
The war in Gaza was launched when activists led by Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli accounts.
According to the Ministry of Health and Women and Children.
