Trump’s emissary went to Gaza in full humanitarian disaster

The special envoy of American president Donald Trump visited a help distribution center in the Gaza Strip devastated by the war on Friday morning, when the pressure increases on Israel in the face of human losses in the hungry Palestinian territory.

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Upstream of this visit by Steve Witkoff, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has castigated the aid distribution system set up by Israel and the United States via the Humanitarian Foundation in Gaza (GHF), which she said has a “fatal trap” for Gazaouis.

After almost 22 months of a devastating war launched by a bloody Hamas attack trump’s emissary went gaza full against Israel on October 7. Therefore, 2023, the Gaza Strip is threatened with a “widespread famine” according to the UN and is completely dependent on humanitarian aid.

The Civil Defense in Gaza has identified 11 people killed since the start of the day by air strikes. Furthermore, Israeli shots, two of which were near a GHF site awaiting help.

Steve Witkoff and the American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, visited in the morning a center of this organization.

“This morning, I joined (…) Steve Witkoff for a visit to Gaza in order to know the truth about the assistance sites (from the GHF). In addition, ” said M. For example, Huckabee on X, publishing a photo the amount alongside the American emissary.

The GHF launched its operations at the end of May. Nevertheless, after almost three months of total humanitarian blockade imposed by Israel, dismissing the humanitarian system set up trump’s emissary went gaza full for a long time by the UN.

Since then. 1,373 Palestinians who have been waiting for help have been killed in the Gaza Strip, including 859 near the sites of this organization with opaque funding, “most” by the Israeli army, quantified the UN on Friday.

“Blood baths”

In a report. the HRW, for its part, accused the “militarized” humanitarian system set up in Gaza of having caused “real blood baths”. “The murders of Palestinians in search of food, by Israeli forces, are war crimes,” she also denounced.

The Israeli army requested by AFP has not immediately reacted to the advertisements of the Civil Defense. the UN and HRW, but regularly repeats its possible to limit civil losses in Gaza.

According to the White House, the visit of MM. Witkoff and Huckabee aims to set up a “plan to deliver more food”.

The two men also had to meet inhabitants trump’s emissary went gaza full “to hear their mouths evoking this terrible situation”. and making “a balance sheet with the president (…) in order to approve a final plan for the distribution of aid”.

“Hunger has pushed people to turn against each other. People are fighting with each other with knives. “to try to get a few aid packages, said Amir Zaqot, Al-Zawayda (center) on Thursday, after a helping aid.

Mr. Witkoff had already gone to Gaza last January when a cease-fire was in force between Israel. the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, before a resumption of the Israeli offensive on March 18.

On Thursday. he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, under pressure in Israel to keep his commitments to destroy Hamas and release the Israelis kidnapped on October 7, and abroad to silence the weapons in Gaza.

“Minority position”

Also on a visit to Jerusalem. the head of German diplomacy, Johann Wadephul, trump’s emissary went gaza full deplored a “humanitarian disaster in Gaza (who) goes beyond the imagination”.

The Minister. whose country is an unwavering ally of Israel, had previously estimated that this country was “increasingly in the minority position”, while “increasing number of countries, including European, are ready to recognize a Palestinian state”.

Portugal said Thursday considering recognizing the state of Palestine, following the example of Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

Such a recognition remains largely symbolic due to the refusal of Israel of the creation of such a state. to which the Palestinians aspire.

Israel denounced a “distorted international pressure campaign” coming “to reward Hamas”.

On Thursday, the Islamic jihad, an ally of Hamas, published a video of an Israeli hostage that he retains. AFP could not determine the authenticity of the video, nor the date of its recording. But she has, like several Israeli media, identified hostage as Rom Braslavski, an Israeli-German.

The trump’s emissary went gaza full October 7 attack led to the Israeli side of 1. 219 people on the Israeli, mostly civilians on the Israeli, according to an AFP count made from official data.

The reprisals offensive launched by Israel in Gaza. where Hamas took power in 2007, left at least 60,249 dead, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, deemed reliable by the UN.