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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Distribution Sites have been closed to carry out “maintenance” work.
THE Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) – a dark organization supported by the United States and Israel – will not immediately resume the distribution of aid in the territory torn by the war after A day closure WednesdaySaying that operations will restart when maintenance and repair work on its distribution sites are completed.
In a press release published on Facebook, the GHF said that “its distribution sites will not open on Thursday morning and that it” would share information on the opening hours as soon as the work is finished “.
The GHF has also strongly urged applicants to help their locations to “follow the roads” established by the Israeli army to “ensure a safe passage”.
On Wednesday, the Israeli army warned the Palestinians not to approach GHF aid distribution sites while “reorganization work” was underway, saying that the access roads in these places would be “considered as combat areas”.
The Israeli army apparently has apparently published no new directive concerning the security of GHF distribution sites while they remain closed for a second day.
The suspension of the distribution of food supplies by the GHF in Gaza comes after the Israeli forces open fire On the Palestinians looking for help for the fourth time near a GHF distribution site in Rafah, in southern Gaza, early on Tuesday.
The Israeli attack killed at least 27 people and injured around 90 others, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Sunday, Israeli forces opened fire on thousands of assistance seekers Near the same site in Rafah, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 150, according to the Gaza Civil Defense Agency. One person was also fell On another aid distribution site, south of the Netzarim corridor in the center of Gaza, the same day.
Then, Monday, three other people were killed and around 30 injured when Israeli forces again open fire Near the GHF Rafah distribution site.
“Unprecedented” mass incidents
The Israeli army had denied having pointed out that its troops drew on civilian civilians or from the GHF aid distribution site on Sunday, saying that its forces were only pulling strokes on people who did not use “designated access roads”.
The spokesman for the Israeli army, Effie Defrin, then said that soldiers only drew towards people who “approached in a way that endangered” the troops.
GHF, which started chaotic help distribution operations On May 26, also labeled the reports of aid applicants killed in large numbers of “pure and simple manufacturing”, saying that it has not yet seen evidence of an attack on or near its facilities.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed that it had received a “mass influx of 179 cases” after the attack on Sunday, including 21 patients “declared dead when they arrived”. Women and children were one of the victims, the group said, the majority suffering from “ball injury or bus”.
The ICRC has also warned that Gaza Palestinians face an “unprecedented scale and frequency of recent mass incidents”.
Aid reports killed by Israeli forces in recent days have led to international indignation, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, demanding an independent investigation into deaths and so that “the authors must be held responsible”.
On Wednesday, the United Kingdom called for an “immediate and independent investigation” on fatal incidents. British Minister of the Middle East, Hamish Falconer, said that deaths were “deeply disturbing” and called the new “inhuman” aid measures.
Israel continues to advance its wider assault on Gaza, with at least 48 people killed in attacks across the strip on Wednesday, according to the Civil Defense of Gaza. Among the victims, at least 18 people were killed in a strike on a tent housing the Palestinians displaced in the south of Khan Younis.
At least 54,418 Palestinians were killed and 124,190 wounded since Israel launched his war against Gaza in October 2023, according to statistics from the Enclave Ministry of Health.
On Wednesday, the United States is once again vetoing a draft United Nations Security Council resolution requiring unhindered access to humanitarian aid through Gaza and an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
