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"At least 798 people have been killed while seeking food at distribution points
operated by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and other
humanitarian convoys since the end of May, the UN human rights office said on
Friday.
The GHF, proposed by Israel as an alternative to the UN aid system in Gaza, has
been almost universally condemned by rights groups for its violation of
principles of humanitarian impartiality and what they have said could be
complicity in war crimes.
“Up until 7 July, we’ve recorded now 798 killings, including 615 in the
vicinity of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and 183 presumably on the route
of aid convoys,” the UN spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in
Geneva.
Israel backed the GHF after claiming that Hamas diverted aid from the UN-led
aid system, a claim for which the UN said there was no evidence. The private
company employs American mercenaries to oversee four food distribution zones,
as opposed to the previous 400 non-militarised zones run under the UN system.
The GHF said the UN figures were “false and misleading” and denied that deadly
incidents occurred at its sites. “The fact is the most deadly attacks on aid
sites have been linked to UN convoys,” a GHF spokesperson said.
GHF also denied that any injuries were inflicted at any of its sites, blaming
Israeli troops firing on Palestinians trying to reach the four hubs it has
established in southern and central Gaza.
In Gaza, the GHF has become infamous for the near-daily shootings of people
seeking food who have queued to receive meals since the group started operating
in early May. Palestinians seeking food have to navigate a complicated set of
instructions and stick to specific routes, as well as walk long distances to
access the food sites. Even then there is no guarantee they will be safe.
On Friday the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said its teams in Gaza
were witnessing “a sharp and unprecedented rise in acute malnutrition”. The
number of cases at its Gaza City clinic has nearly quadrupled over the past two
months.
At least 10 people were killed and more than 60 injured on Friday when Israeli
forces opened fire on a crowd in Rafah, southern Gaza, according to Ahmad
al-Farra, the head of paediatrics at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, which
received the dead and wounded.
At least 15 Palestinians were killed overnight and on Friday by Israeli
airstrikes in northern Gaza, including a strike on a school serving as a
refugee shelter.
“The situation in the hospital was like it always is during massacres: extreme
overcrowding, shortage of medical supplies and medicines, and a very high
number of injured compared with the number of doctors,” said Farra."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
