The spokesperson for the Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza Chapin Fay says this Monday on BFMTV wanting to feed “as many people as possible” in the Palestinian enclave via Its organization described by the UN and other NGOs.
It is a controversial organization which recognizes itself that the distributions of food aid that it organizes for the Gazaouis are “not perfect”, according to its spokesperson Chapin Fay.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) continues its operations in the Gaza Strip, despite its methods decried by several other NGOs and the UN. The latter refuse to collaborate with this organization.
“We came to help them and feed them”
To defend itself, Chapin Fay recalls that the Palestinian enclave is “an active war zone”, but says that “it goes better and better every day”. In BFMTV this Monday, July 28, he says he saw “hungry and desperate people who die of hunger” in the Gaza Strip.
“We loaded eight food trucks, it represents thousands of boxes and pallets. Thousands of Palestinians came very quickly to have help,” he said.
Describing the operating mode of his organization, he shares on our antenna the “innovating” desire for his association “to feed as many people as possible”.
“We have kept part of the help for women and children. Once the crowd started to disperse and the men left, there were lines of women and children who formed. They sat and we came to help and feed them,” describes Chapin Fay on our antenna.
For the UN, GHF is not “neutral and independent”
The methods of the Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza, supported by Israel and the United States are criticized by many international organizations. The spokesperson for the UN Secretary General Stéphane Dujarric has already indicated that the organization does not respect the principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence “.
According to the UN figures shared on July 22, more than 1,000 people have been killed since the end of May trying to obtain help, the vast majority of which near the GHF Foundation.
Their distributions give rise to chaotic scenes, Tsahal having fired several times to try to contain hundreds of desperate Gazaouis.
“For many inhabitants, trying to reach a bag of flour or a hot ration amounts to risking your life,” denounced the UN at the end of June.
Another criticism, Doctors Without Borders deplores that the GHF distribution sites are “all located in areas entirely controlled by Israeli forces after the inhabitants have been moved by force, are the size of a football field and are surrounded by observation posts, land embankments and barbed wire”.
“Their fenced entry allows only one access point,” deplored MSF in a press release at the end of June. The NGO hopes that this “Mechanism for Distribution of Deadly Food put in place by Israel and the United States” will be “immediately arrested”.
The GHF began to distribute food products on May 26, after a blockade of more than two months imposed by Israel at the entrance to any humanitarian aid and despite the risk of famine.
Malnutrition “alarming” levels
The Hebrew state has slightly loosened its vice on the Palestinian enclave, announcing a break from the fighting, in certain sectors of the Palestinian territory ravaged by almost 22 months of war. The first trucks loaded with aid crossed the border from Egypt to the besieged and hungry Gaza Strip.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malnutrition rates in the Gaza strip reach “alarming levels”. “Malnutrition follows a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a peak of death in July,” the WHO said in a statement this Sunday.
Some 2.4 million Palestinians have been besieged there since the start of the war launched by an attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, 2023 on Israeli soil.