Gaza War: Foundation: Second Distribution Center for Aid Funds in Gaza

According to Tumulten, the Gaza Humanitrian Foundation (GHF) opened another distribution center when it was used for the delivery of relief goods in the Gaza Strip. There, food aid was distributed from eight trucks without incidents, the foundation said.

Contradictory information about incidents at the start

According to the UN Human Rights Office, one person was killed in Tumulten in the area of ​​the first distribution center in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and 47 others were injured. According to this information, the Israeli military has given shots, said UN human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani of the German Press Agency.

However, the foundation contradicted this presentation. There were no shots on Palestinian crowds in the center and there were no fatalities. The Israeli army had announced that soldiers had made warning shots outside the center.

More than 14,000 food packages distributed

So far, 14,550 food packages have been distributed at the two open distribution centers, the foundation continued. Each package can feed 5.5 people for three and a half days. It is 840,262 meals. New foods have also arrived at the first distribution station in Rafah and should be distributed there. At first there were reports on delays.

The operations should now be extended to all four planned locations. “The construction of other distribution centers in Gaza is planned in the coming weeks,” it also said.

Israel wants to handle Hamas with a foundation

In view of a month -long blockade of relief goods by Israel, which had recently been relaxed, the desperate location of many people has worsened again in the contested coastal strip. In the area populated by around two million Palestinians, which is largely destroyed, there is a lack of food, drinking water, medication and almost all things in everyday needs.

According to the will of the Israeli government, the GHF should in future be responsible for the distribution of the relief goods. Israel wants to deal with the UN and other international helpers so aid organizations. With the distribution strategy supported by the United States, the Israeli government claims to prevent Hamas from branching and resold deliveries for its own purposes, in order to then pay fighters and weapons. UN representatives say that Israel has not submitted any evidence of this.

Netanyahu speaks of “current loss of control”

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Tuesday evening of a “current loss of control” when distributing the relief supplies. The aim is to “have a sterile zone in the south of Gazas in which the entire population can move to their own protection”.

Many Palestinians fear a new wave of flight and displacement from the Gaza Strip, similar to during the war in the course of the foundation of Israeli in 1948 and during the 1967 Six Day War. On Israel’s approach in the coastal area, where dozens of deaths are reported as a result of Israeli attacks.

Aid organizations criticize new distribution mechanism

Aid organizations continue to criticize the distribution mechanism of the new foundation. “Yesterday it was a great failure for this structure you created,” said the director of the Palestinian Health Organization Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) in Ramallah, Mustafa Barghouti. “This whole idea is an Israeli idea to use a Netanyahu idea to use humanitarian needs as a weapon,” said the NGO representative. The new foundation is “problematic because humanitarian aid for political and military purposes is being exploited,” said Riad Othman, Middle East consultant of the aid organization Medico International.

600th day since the kidnapping

The emergency in the coastal area has drastically intensified in the course of the Gaza War since October 2023. The war was triggered by the worst massacre in the history of Israel: Terrorists of the Hamas and other Islamist groups killed around 1,200 people in a raid on the south of the Jewish state and dragged more than 250 into the Gaza strips. According to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, more than 54,000 Palestinians in Gaza were then killed in the war. The number of people, which is barely checked, summarizes fighters and civilians.

The relatives of the Israeli hostages still held in Gaza are reminiscent of the fact that their loved ones have been in Hamas’ violence for 600 days. According to Israeli information, there are currently at least 20 living hostages in the Gaza Strip. With three other kidnapped people, it is unclear whether they are still alive. In addition, the remains of 35 abducted areas are located in the sealed area with countless underground tunnel systems.