After almost two weeks tense between Iran and Israelinternational attention and management of Benjamín Netanyahu He returned to the Gaza Strip. This Friday there broke out a controversy for the “Militarized system” of delivery of humanitarian aid, which would have caused hundreds of deaths of Palestinians in need in the distribution sites.
The Haaretz newspaper, one of the most prestigious media in the country, referred to the fact as a “massacre” of Palestinians in these circumstances and mentioned the Israeli Defense forces (FDI).
“It is a massacre field: FDI soldiers received the order of Deliberately shoot Against unarmed Gazati who expected humanitarian aid, “Haaretz titled, in a report that shook to the UN headquarters.
Israel soldiers denounced orders to shoot humanitarian centers
The newspaper cites several soldiers, who from anonymity claimed to receive orders from shoot against crowds Concentrated near the aid distribution centers, even when they did not represent any threat.
The newspaper report adds to the complaints of the Gaza Ministry of Healthaccording to which almost 550 people died and more than 4,000 were injured in the tails formed to reach the Centers for Aid Distribution The questioned Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza (GHF).
At the beginning of March, Israel imposed a humanitarian blockade to the Palestinian territory, which caused a serious shortage of food, medicines and other essential goods. The limitation was partially lifted at the end of May, when the GHF, supported by Israel and the USA began to distribute the aid.
A soldier said it is “A death field”: “Where I was destinedthey killed between one and five people per day. They are treated as a hostile force: without crowd control measures, without tear gas, only real fire with everything imaginable, “he said.
In his statement, the man detailed “heavy machine guns, launched, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shootings cease and know that they can approach. Our form of communication is the shots”
“We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to put in their tail from a few hundred meters away and sometimes, sometimes We simply load against them From short distance. But there is no danger to the forces, ”he said.
According to him, there are no “record of any response fire. There is no enemy, there are no weapons,” he added.
“Gaza is no longer interested in anyone,” said a reservist who completed another service round in the north of the strip this week. “It has become a place with its own rules.” He added that “the loss of human lives means nothing”, and that it is not even an “unfortunate incident”, as it used to say.
Asked by the AFP the Israeli army acknowledged that, on several occasions, in these types of situations, their soldiers opened fire against “Suspect” that represented a “threat.” “We firmly reject the accusation raised in Haaretz’s article,” said a spokesperson.
In a statement released after the publication of the note, Netanyahu and its Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, rejected the accusations, which they described as “Bloody slander.”
“The state of Israel categorically rejects The disgusting accusations of ritual murder [sic] Posted in the newspaper Haaretz“They wrote in a joint statement.
The UN Chief said that Gaza’s helping operation supported by the US is “insecure and kills people”
The Secretary General of United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterressaid Friday that the Help operation backed by the US in Gaza is “intrinsically insecure.” In that line, he pointed out that “he is killing people.”
He also stated that humanitarian efforts led by the UN are being “strangled”, that humanitarian workers themselves go hungry and that Israel It is obliged to accept and facilitate help deliveries in the Palestinian enclave and in its entire territory.
Source: Ambito
