The United Nations (UNICEF) children’s funds criticized new plans from Israel and the United States to resume humanitarian aid in Gaza, and said it would aggravate the suffering of children and families.
The American State Department spoke earlier about a solution which, according to her, was “steps” which would allow the distribution of aid to Gaza. He said he will be announced soon.
The conversation takes place among the rescue organizations concerning an proposal to suppose an institution called “Gaza Relief Foundation”, the distribution of food from four “safe distribution sites”, which is similar to the plans announced by Israel earlier this week, and caused criticisms that it could in fact lead to an exacerbation of the trip between the residents of the Sector.
“It seems that the Israel project presented to the rescue community would exacerbate the continuous suffering of children and families of the Gaza Strip,” said Unicef spokesman James Elder.
Elder added that his speech also applies to the new institution, which is supposed to be part of the plan extended itself.
Rescue organizations already reject all the plans that would give the occupied force a role in the distribution of aid to Gaza.
A foundation document said the sites will be “neutral”, and the American ambassador to Israel, Mike Hakapi, said on Friday that Israel will not participate in the distribution of aid.
However, Elder said that the use of these centers, which, according to the institution, says that each of them will initially serve 300,000 people, involves risks for children and families during their movement to obtain aid and could lead to additional displacement.
“The use of humanitarian aid as a taste to force people to move, especially from North to South, will leave them in front of an impossible choice: a choice between travel and death,” said Elder, who has participated in several tasks related to Gaza since the start of war.
He added: “It is clear that the objective is to improve control of the basic ingredients of life as a tactic of pressure.”
Instead, called Israel to lift the seat he imposed more than two months ago at the entrance to the sector’s aid, which caused generalized hunger and arouses fears of deaths due to malnutrition.
He said: “There is a simple alternative, which is to lift the seat and allow the entry of humanitarian aid to save lives.” (Agencies)
