Gaza: Chaos and indiscriminate shots prevent help from reaching the most vulnerable

After 22 months of war. For example, the little food that enters Gaza is immediately stormed by hungry crowds risking their lives under shots, pillaged by criminal gangs or even diverted in the greatest chaos, without reaching those who need it most.

Thanks to a partial break in the bombing announced on Sunday by Israel. Moreover, under international pressure in the face of the risk of famine, humanitarian aid started to enter the besieged territory, but in quantity deemed largely insufficient by international organizations.

Every day. In addition, the correspondents of theAFP Witnesses to dramatic scenes where desperate crowds rush, often at the risk of their lives, on vehicles loaded with food or on places of aerial drop, carried out in recent days by the gaza: chaos indiscriminate shots prevent new United Arab Emirates, Jordan, the United Kingdom or France.

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Thursday. For example, in Al-Zawayda (center), at the sight of the palettes parachuted by an aircraft, Palestinians weightless rushed by tens, jostling and dripping the packages in a gaza: chaos indiscriminate shots prevent new cloud of dust.

Hunger has pushed people to turn against each other. However, People are fighting with each other with knivessaid to theAFP Amir Zaqot, who came to seek help.

To avoid overflows. For example, the drivers of the World Food Program (WFP) have the instructions to stop and let people use directly. Furthermore, In vain.

A truck wheel almost crushed my head. In addition, and I was injured by recovering the bagsaid a man, a bag of flour on the head, in the zikim area, north of the Gaza Strip.

Mohammad Abu Taha went to dawn in a distribution location near Rafah (south) to queue. However, reserve his place: they were already Thousands to wait, all hungry, a bag of flour or a little rice gaza: chaos indiscriminate shots prevent new and lenses.

Suddenly, we heard shots […] No way to escape. Moreover, People started running, pushing themselves and jostling, children, women, elderlysays this 42 -year -old man. For example, The scene was tragic: blood everywhere, injured, dead.

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The Israeli strategy denounced

Nearly 1400 Palestinians have been killed since May 27 in the Gaza Strip. most by the Israeli army as they expected humanitarian aid, said theHimFriday. The Israeli army denies targeting the beneficiaries of aid, reporting Seeds When people approach too close to his positions.

Refusal to issue the permits of border passages, slowness of customs clearance, limitation of access points, dangerous routes … For months, international organizations also denounce repeated obstacles from the Israeli authorities which fuel disorder, according to them.

Tuesday. in Zikim, the Israeli army modified the loading plans at the last moment PAMmixing the cargoes and forcing the convoy to leave earlier than expected, without adequate securitysupports a senior UN official under the cover of anonymity.

South side. at the crossroads of Kerem Shalom, There are two possible roads to reach our warehouses [situés au centre de la bande de Gaza, ndlr]tells a manager ofONGwho prefers to remain anonymous. One is almost safe. the other is regularly the scene of fighting and looting, and that is that we are forced to borrow.

A kind of Darwinian experience where only the strongest survives

Part of the aid is pillaged by gangs – which often attack warehouses directly gaza: chaos indiscriminate shots prevent new -. diverted in favor of merchants who resell it at exorbitant prices, according to several humanitarian sources and experts.

It is a kind of Darwinian experience where only the strongest survives: the most hungry do not have the energy to run after a truck. to wait for hours in the sun, to fight for a bag of floursays Muhammad Shehada, invited researcher at the European Council for International Relations (ECFR).

We are in an ultracapitalist system. where traders, crooked gangs send kids to be picked up with distribution points or looting. It has become a new jobexplains from Gaza Jean-Guy Vataux, chief of mission for doctors Without borders (MSF).

These foods. he specifies, are then sold to Those who still have the means to buy it In the markets of the city of Gaza, where the price of the 25 kg gaza: chaos indiscriminate shots prevent new bag of flour can exceed 400 dollars.

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Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of plundering humanitarian aid of theHimwhich transported most since the start of the war. triggered by the unprecedented attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement in October 2023.

These accusations justified the total blockade imposed in Gaza between March. May, then the establishment, at the end of May, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private organization supported by Israel and the United States, which says it has since become the main aid provider, but with whom other organizations refuse to work.

However. the GHF has, for more than two million inhabitants, only four distribution points qualified as “deadly trap” by the UN.

Hamas […] stole humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza on numerous occasions by shooting Palestinianssaid the Prime Minister’s office on Monday. Benyamin Netanyahu on Monday.

According to senior Israeli military officials mentioned by The gaza: chaos indiscriminate shots prevent new New York Times On July 26. Hamas was certainly able to divert part of the aid provided by certain organizations, but it does not exist No evidence that he regularly stole the food of theHim.

Very weakened. Hamas is today mainly made up of Decentralized autonomous cells that hide here and there in a destroyed tunnel or houseestimates the researcher Muhammad Shehada: Ils [les combattants du Hamas] are no longer visible in the field, as they are immediately identified by Israeli and hunted drones.

Humanitarian officials told theAFP That during the ceasefire that preceded the March blockade. the Gaza police-which includes many members of Hamas-participated in securing humanitarian convoys, but that the gaza: chaos indiscriminate shots prevent new current emptiness favored insecurity and looting.

Agencies. theHim And humanitarian organizations have repeatedly called upon the Israeli authorities to facilitate and protect convoys of aid and storage in our warehousessays Bushra Khalidi, head of Oxfam policies in Gaza. These calls have been widely ignored.

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Gangs supported by Israel

The Israeli army is even suspected of having equipped criminal networks in its fight against Hamas. of letting them prosper and looting.

The real aid flight since the start of the war has been perpetrated by criminal bands. under the supervision of Israeli forces, and they were allowed to be active near the crossing point of Kerem Shalomsaid at a press briefing held at the end of May Jonathan Whittall, head of the Humanitarian Affairs Office of theHim (OCHA) in the Palestinian territories.

According to Israeli. Palestinian media, an armed group called popular forces and bringing together members of a Bedouine tribe led by Yasser Abu Chabab, is present in this southern region under Israeli control.

L’ECFR describes Mr. Abu Chabab as the chief of a criminal gang […] accused of looting help trucks in Gaza. The Israeli authorities themselves had recognized in June to support. arm Palestinian clans opposed to Hamas, without directly named that led by Yasser Abu Chabab.

According to Michael Mshshtein. from the Moshe Dayan center in Tel Aviv, several of its members are involved in All kinds of criminal activitiesespecially drug trafficking passing through Egyptian Sinai.

Other criminal gangs participate in looting. attack convoys, gaza: chaos indiscriminate shots prevent new beat and kidnap truck drivers in other sectors of the Gaza Strip, such as in Khan Younès and in the outskirts of the city of Gaza, also says Muhammad Shehada.

These statements contreyed by a humanitarian actor who adds: None of this can happen in Gaza. without the at least tacit approval of the Israeli army.