Israel announced on Sunday that he stopped fighting in certain regions of the Gaza Strip to facilitate the delivery of aid after International indignation has swelled In recent days on the dead in increased malnutrition and generalized famine caused by Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid.
The announcement published by Israeli Defense Forces said that it would implement “humanitarian corridors” for the safe movement of United Nations aid trucks and “humanitarian breaks” in some of the most densely populated areas in Gaza.
The army’s “tactical break” will take place from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. in areas where the Israeli army does not work: Al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah and Gaza City, said the FDI, and will continue “until further notice”.
Additional secure routes will be in place between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. to allow the safe passage of help trucks, said the IDF, adding “prepared to extend the scale of this activity if necessary”.
The trucks began to move to Gaza from Egypt after the announcement of Israel, the Egyptian red crescent saying that the convoy included more than 100 aid trucks containing more than 1,200 tonnes of food.
However, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health of Gaza, Dr. Khalil al-Daqran, told NBC News that 25 had been killed by an Israeli army fire until now Sunday morning, including 11 people in search of aid in the center of Gaza. Al-Daqran added that Israeli air strikes through the band are underway.
The World Food Program praised the implementation of humanitarian corridors, saying that it already has enough food in the region, or on its way to feed the Gaza population for three months. Gaza needs more than 62,000 tonnes of food aid per month, he said in the statement on Sunday.
Israel also said that he had placed seven aid packets in the enclave on Sunday after inviting foreign countries to do the same. Air aid delivery has been criticized by international organizations as a “distraction” of road dams imposed by Israel on the delivery of land aid, which remains the only way to obtain a significant amount of food and other supplies in Gaza.
“AID Drops is a grotesque distraction of the reality of what is necessary in the field in Gaza at the moment. They can never deliver the volume, consistency or the quality of the necessary aid and services,” said Ciarán Donelly, vice-president of the international program of the International Rescue Committee, to the BBC.
According to the Ministry of Health, 6 other additional people in Gaza have succumbed to malnutrition in the past 24 hours, which brings the total to at least 133 people killed by famine, including 87 children.
The population wider 2.2 million people in the enclave is also threatened with mass famine, warned the aid organizations, slamming the aid mechanism of Israel, which they say they are riddled obstructive bureaucracy, delays and arbitrary refusal.
Thousands of aid trucks are stacked outside the passages to the borders of Gaza while waiting to be delivered, but Israel says that it is the responsibility of the United Nations Aid Agencies Distribute inside GazaWho in turn blame Israel for the erection of bureaucratic and logistics obstacles so complex that only a fraction can be distributed through the enclave.
“United Nations and International Organizations should improve the efficiency of aid distribution and ensure that help does not reach Hamas,” the FDI said on Saturday.
Israel has long argued that aid restrictions are in place to prevent Hamas from stealing food, although an analysis of the internal American government found no evidence systematic flight of Hamas in the last 20 months.
OCHA, the United Nations humanitarian aid agency and the World Food Program, previously argued that they had not seen any evidence of Hamas.
Israel has raised its total blockade of total aid of almost three months in May to allow certain organizations to distribute limited aid, and argued that there is no hunger inside Gaza, with the FDI saying on Saturday: “that there is no famine in the Gaza Strip; it is a false campaign promoted by Hamas.”
International assistance agencies, hospitals and medical organizations, as well as NBC News reports on the groundhave largely documented mounting hunger across Gaza.
“The food crisis in Gaza is a humanitarian disaster,” Jagan Chapagain, director general of the International Cross-Red Federation said on Sunday.
