The Israeli army rejects the accusations of HRW and ensures that Hamas “prevents the success of the food distribution in Gaza”
“The murders of Palestinians in search of food, by Israeli forces, are war crimes”denounced a new report from the Human Rights Watch organization published on Friday.
“The disastrous humanitarian situation [à Gaza] is the direct consequence of the use by Israel of famine as a weapon of war – a war crime – as well as its intentional and continual blocking of humanitarian aid and basic services “added the human rights organization.
Subsequently, in a commentary transmitted to the France-Presse agency, the Israeli army rejected these accusations and ensures that Hamas, “Brutal terrorist organization”, “Handing and endangering the population to maintain their control over the Gaza Strip”. The Palestinian Islamist movement “Do everything in its power to prevent the success of food distribution in Gaza”.
According to The New York Timessenior Israeli officials would have declared that “Nothing proves that Hamas has regularly stolen the UN”which provided most of the food aid in Gaza. “A Hamas representative did not immediately respond to requests for comments”said the American daily in this article published last week.
On July 25, the reuters news agency reported that a study by the United States government had “Finded no evidence of systematic flight by Hamas of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, which questions the main reason invoked by Israel and Washington to set up a new militarized aid distribution system, strongly criticized”.