Location at an overview: Gaza aid centers should open – USA prevent resolution

The controversial auxiliary centers in the contested Gaza strip should be accessible to the needy population after one day “renovation work”. At the time that the institutions closed on Wednesday, the Gaza Humanitrian Foundation (GHF) did not say on its Arabic-speaking Facebook page. After repeated reports on fatal shots on Palestinians at the centers, security should be improved there.

USA: Resolution would have strengthened Hamas

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio justified the Veto of the United States in the UN Security Council, with which Washington prevented a resolution that would have requested an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and unhindered access for relief goods. “We will not support a measure that fails to condemn the Hamas” and to demand from the Islamist terrorist organization to disarm itself and leave the Gaza Strip, he said, according to a message.

A farewell to the resolution would have strengthened Hamas to undermine the ongoing diplomatic efforts to undermine a ceasefire. All other 14 member states of the Security Council voted for the decision.

Against the background of growing concern, this happens on the distribution of aid deliveries in the sealed coastal area, where, according to the UN, more than two million inhabitants are threatened by hunger after Israel had imposed a complete ban on deliveries of food and other relief goods for eleven weeks. According to the Israeli government, the pressure on Hamas should be increased so that the last hosts kidnapped during the terrorist attack in Israel on October 7, 2023.

Reports of fatal incidents

Just about two weeks ago, Israel had relaxed the blockade of the aid deliveries. Their distribution was recently taken over by the GHF. The organization funded by Israel and the United States is bypassing aid organizations of the United Nations and other initiatives, endangers civilians and violates neutral help against proven standards.

According to reports on fatal shots on Palestinians at the aid stations in the past few days, the GHF wanted to improve security there. It is worked on making the distribution of food packages as safe as possible, it was said in the message on Facebook. For security reasons, all Palestinians who are traveling to the distribution centers are urgently asked to follow the routes defined by the Israeli armed forces.

Auxiliary centers should open again

However, the announcement of the controversial foundation does not contain any information on whether all of the distribution centers it operates will be opened again and when exactly. As soon as the “maintenance and repair work” has ended, information will be announced during the opening hours, it said. This should make it difficult for the residents of Gaza to plan the long and dangerous foot marches to pick up the help, wrote the “Times of Israel”.

On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the Israeli military shot on Palestinians who had approached the troops, the newspaper reported. They deviated from a path approved in advance. According to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, Israeli soldiers are said to have killed at least 27 Palestinians near a distribution center near Rafah and injured around 90 more.

In contrast, Israel’s army said that soldiers had seen around half a kilometer from the distribution center suspected who had presented a threat. However, since these had not returned despite warning shots, the Israeli soldiers had shot on individual suspects. None of the information on both sides can currently be checked independently.

Wade phulic receives Israeli colleagues

The Israeli government justifies the controversial realignment of humanitarian aid with the fact that the deliveries had previously been stolen by Hamas. According to the UN organizations, Israel has not presented evidence of the systematic robbery of humanitarian aid by Hamas.

Federal Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul welcomes his Israeli colleague Gideon Saar in Berlin after he had promised further weapons aid on Wednesday in the Bundestag. In the morning, the CDU politician wants to visit the Holocaust memorial with his Israeli guest and put a wreath on the monument to the murdered Jews of Europe. Your subsequent consultations should also be about Israel’s massive military approach and the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.

The war was triggered by the attack by Hamas and other Islamist terrorists on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were delayed as hostages. Since then, according to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, more than 54,600 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip. The number does not differentiate between fighters and civilians and can hardly be checked independently.