People are “weak, exhausted and desperate,” says the young woman. “Sometimes armed people come, tear the control, push everyone aside and load the relief goods into their own vehicles.” She saw how UN workers reversed “because it was just too dangerous”. The civilian population never gets the help. “It is heartbreaking. We only have to calm people down while they have to watch how the food is driven away.”
Terror organizations in the Gaza Strip have recently published videos of hostages that are emaciated to the bones. One of them is also German citizens. The pictures also provided horror and outrage internationally.
They apparently want to put pressure on Israel and show that the hostages are also affected by the lack of food. A strong contrast to the emaciated hostage was, however, in the last published video of the forearm of a kidnapper, which looked well -fed.
Israel repeatedly accuses Hamas of bringing relief goods under their control, the organization rejects this. The UN also say that Israel has not presented any evidence of this. However, residents of the Gaza Strip confirm that Hamas was also involved in the looting.
The United Nations accused Israel of creating chaotic circumstances through the warfare in the Gaza Strip that made an orderly distribution of relief goods impossible. Israel, on the other hand, accuses the UN that he has not distributed aid deliveries available in the Gaza Strip.
A spokesman for the responsible cogat authority said on request that four transitions into the Gaza Strip were currently active, the most important of them Kerem Schalom in the south and Zikim in the north. The distribution of the relief supplies is the responsibility of the international organizations, said the spokesman. Israel lets the deliveries drive into the coastal strips. 1,200 trucks have been picked up by UN and other international organizations there for a week.
According to the Israeli army, in addition to Germany, France, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Egypt have thrown food packages over the Gaza Strip. However, this use was criticized by the UN side as expensive and insufficient.
After his recent visit to the Gaza Strip, Ricardo Pires from the UN Children’s Aid Unicef described the situation as “absolutely apocalyptic” and warned of a dramatic increase in the number of victims-more and more children would be injured, killed and suffered from malnutrition. For 88 percent of the area in the Gaza Strip there are now eviction calls from the Israeli army. This requires the two million inhabitants of the coastal strip, which are already densely populated, to pose together to twelve percent of the area.
