“Since July 13, we have recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to obtain food; 674 of them were killed near GHF sites, “said Thameen al-Kheetan, Ohchr spokesperson.
The remaining 201 victims were killed during the search for food “on the itineraries of convoys of aid or close convoys” managed by the UN or the United Nations operating in the enclave broken by the war, Al-Kheetan told journalists in Geneva.
The murders linked to controversial aid centers in the United States and the Israeli began shortly after starting to operate in southern Gaza on May 27, bypassing the UN and the other established NGOs.
The last murderous incident occurred around 9 a.m. on Monday, July 14, when information said that the Israeli army bombed and pulled to the Palestinians looking for food on the GHF site in the Shakoush region, northwestern Rafah.
According to Ohchr, two Palestinians were killed and at least nine others were injured. Some of the victims were transported to the International Committee of the Red Cross Hospital (ICRC) in Rafah. On Saturday, doctors received more than 130 patients, the “overwhelming majority” suffering from ball injury and “all reactive people” reporting that they were trying to access food distribution sites.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWAA, expressed deep concerns concerning the continuous murder of civilians trying to access food, while fatal malnutrition spreads in children.
“Our teams on the ground – UNRWA teams and other United Nations teams – have spoken to survivors of these murders, these hungry children included, who were shot dead while on the way to pick up very little food,” said Juliette Touma, director of communications at UNRWA.
Speaking by video of Amman, Ms. Touma insisted that the almost total Israeli blocking of Gaza led babies to die from the effects of severe acute malnutrition.
“We have been forbidden to bring all humanitarian aid to Gaza for more than four months now,” she said, before pointing to a “significant increase” in children’s malnutrition since the start of the Israeli blockade on March 2.
Ms. Touma added: “We have 6,000 trucks waiting in places like Egypt, like Jordan; It’s from Jordan to the Gaza Strip, it’s a three -hour journey, right? »»
In addition to food supplies, these United Nations trucks contain other vital supplies if basic supplies, including soap bars. “Medicine and food will soon expire if we are unable to obtain these supplies to the people of Gaza who need it most, including a million children who are half of the Gaza Strip population,” Ms. Touma continued.
Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the Palestinians continue to be killed in violence which, according to Israeli colonists, of Israeli colonists, said the United Nations agencies.
According to the Ohchr, Laila Khatib, two, was shot in the head by the Israeli security forces on January 25 while she was inside her house in the village of Ash-Shuhada, in Jenin.
On July 3, Walid Badir, 61, was shot dead by Israeli security forces, when he was in the process of returning to his home prayers, passing through the periphery of the Nur Shams camp, the United Nations Rights Office continued, pointing to the intensification of “killings, attacks and harassment of the Palestinians in recent weeks.
“This includes the demolition of hundreds of houses and the displacement of forced mass of the Palestinians,” noted Mr. Al-Kheetan of the Ohchr, with some 30,000 Palestinians forcibly moved since the launch of the Israeli operation “Iron Wall” in the north of the West Bank occupied earlier this year.
“We must remember that international law is very clear on this subject in terms of occupation power obligations,” he said. “Bringing a permanent demographic change within the occupied territory can constitute a war crime and is equivalent to ethnic cleaning.”
“We continue to have a silent war that increases, when strong restrictions on the movement continue, where poverty increases as people are cut off from their livelihoods and unemployment is soaring,” said Touma of UNRWA.
With its current accent on the West Bank occupied by the North, the Israeli military operation had an impact on the refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams.
“This has caused the greatest displacement of the Palestinian population in the West Bank since 1967,” continued Ms. Touma.
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