The United Nations accuses Israel of hindering the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza | International
The entrance of A small humanitarian help to the population of Gaza He continues to face numerous obstacles and the United Nations indicated this Saturday directly to the government of Benjamín Netanyahu as responsible. The office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) of the International Agency has accused the Israeli authorities of “preventing” their work intentionally. “It seems that Israel’s will is not to facilitate an effective humanitarian response,” said Jonathan Whittall, director of that agency in Palestine. The protest takes place on the same day Desperate crazy for hunger They sacked 86 trucks with humanitarian load inside the enclave, where local sources say that most of the population did not notice the limited reopening of the humanitarian flow.
The Israeli bombings in the area persist and the Gazati authorities recorded more than 60 victims on Saturday, while The option of a high fire Follow in the air. The Islamist militia Hamas issued his response to the truce raised by the White House this Saturday, which Israel had already accepted publicly. The Palestinian group announces its predisposition to free 10 Israeli hostages live and 18 deaths, but reiterates its demand for guarantees for the end of the Israeli retirement of the strip, something that Washington’s proposal did not include and on what has already expressed its refusal.
May 18, Israel announced that she raised the absolute block imposed on the strip. The decision, encouraged by the United States, closed two and a half months in which the Israeli authorities did not allow the entry of a bottle of water or the flour bag into the enclave. A private foundation outside the United NationsLed by Israel and the United States, he managed to just over a week part of the limited help that arrives in Gaza. Humanitarian voices denounce that this mechanism does not meet humanitarian standards. Despite this, Gaza continues to suffer a drop of deaths of malnutrition. The entire population of the strip (2.1 million people) is at risk of severe food insecurity, according to OCHA a few days ago.
In a declaration, this United Nations Agency considered Israel responsible for a good part of the “obstacles” that face their supplies. It regrets “delays” in the reception of permits by the Israeli authorities and denunciation that offer “inappropriate routes” to transport the goods, something that compromises the mission. “We face desperate crowds that take part in our load,” said Whittall, who concluded: “Our work is obstructed”.
On Friday evening, the head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, had expressed itself in similar terms: “The current mass famine can be avoided. Politics will only be necessary”.
In the middle of lack, despair arises. Amjad Shawa, director of the Ngo Palestinas Network that acts in Gaza, confirmed to this newspaper that the hungry crowds have on Saturday 86 trucks. Most of them, he says, wore flour. The assault was launched by civilians who stopped armed vehicles and clans. “They are against these gangs and armed assaults. This is a crime,” Shawa explained from the enclave: “But at the same time I can understand it. People are hungry, we can see the pain of children because of malnutrition. Bring some bread to their children saves life.”
Shawa is the Gazati in 600 daily foods, medicines and fuel trucks, something that share the United Nations representatives. Remember that this flow existed during the short truce that ended in March, as well as before the conflict. The humanitarian director denounces that the help that entered Gaza from the Israeli announcement for his recovery “is not a drop in the ocean”. From 19 May, when the entrance of aid was reopened, up to 29 °, over 840 trucks received green light to access the enclave. According to the registers of Shawa, those who really accessed were 590. Of these, only 192 were able to move towards the distribution points, reaching the hands of the Gazatis.
The sound of war planes is recorded in the vocal messages of Shawa. The Israeli offensive has left at least 60 fatal victims in 24 hours, according to the health authorities of Gazati. As in the previous days, at least two of them died while looking for food in one of the distribution points of the new mechanism supported by the United States, that the humanitarian field as a whole considers an extension of the Israeli military operation.
Hamas asks for the truce to guarantee the end of the war
Meanwhile, Hamas has avoided rejecting the plan for a truce launched by the United States and accepted by Israel. The militia accepts the supply of hostages, but added fundamental amendments to the proposal.
The offer above the table is the latest version of Steve Witkoff’s proposal, special correspondent for the White House in the Middle East and which includes Hamas’s exit of 10 living hostages and 18 hostages who died in two phases (59 are left in the strip) in exchange for a 60 -day high fire.
Unlike Previous plans that the Israeli government did not likeThis text does not contemplate guarantees for an end of the war or for the Israeli retirement of the Enclave, something that Hamas asks to be rectified. In his response, he states that from the huge sense of responsibility for the suffering “of the population, he pursues” the high permanent fire, the complete retreat (of the Israeli army) of the strip and guarantee the humanitarian flow (towards the enclave) “.
The request of the Palestinians constitutes a counter -proposal on which the Israeli Prime Minister ruled on Saturday evening. Netanyahu said that Hamas “keeps his refusal” and that Israel “will continue his action in Gaza for the return of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas”.
Witkoff, who acts as a mediator, anticipated the Israelis and expressed in social networks that sees Hamas’s response “unacceptable”: “It only makes us go back”.
Subsequent negotiation rounds since the end of 2023, after Hamas to the attack of Israel on October 7 and the offensive that the Israelis have unleashed, ended in a dead end. The Israeli government wants the exile and disarmament of the militia, and even the march of the Palestinians of the Enclave, while the fundamentalist group refuses to disarm if the credible roads are not established for the creation of a Palestinian state.
