A desperate gasia overwhelms the aid center managed

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The waves of the desperate Palestinians covered a humanitarian distribution center in southern Gaza on Tuesday, as a new controversial system run by a group by the United States unknown previously, its operations began in the pocket.

The chaotic episode added to the concerns related to the ability of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to manage aid distribution in the region, as the United Nations warned that half a million people are facing hunger after Israel prevented all aid delivery operations for more than two months.

GHF said that “one moment late in the afternoon, the size of people” at the relief center was that his team “retreated to allow a small number of Ghazan to help safely and dispel.”

The person participating in the center’s management said that the situation has become chaotic and that the operators lost control. The Israeli army said its soldiers fired warning shots nearby.

The broadcast of the footage on the island showed huge crowds of people who are flowing through what appears to be wired fence residues while they were rushing to reach aid.

GHF said that normal operations had resumed after the accident.

The desperate conditions created by the Israeli blockade and the renewed attack have been drawn Intensive international criticism. The United Kingdom freezes trade talks with Israel on what the “hateful” situation in Gaza called, and the European Union pledged last week to review its trade agreement with the country.

Even Germany, one of the Israeli allies, joined the condemnationand With Counselor Friedrich Mirz said on Tuesday that he was “shocked” from the “horrific suffering of the civilian population” in Gaza and that the government will discuss how to respond.

In its statement, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that since the operations in Gaza began on Monday, it distributed 8,000 food boxes, equivalent to 4,62,000 meals. She has already said that she was planning to reach more than 1 million Palestinians “by the end of the week.”

The Israeli army said that four distribution centers were established in recent weeks, including two – both near a southern in southern Gaza – they started work on Tuesday.

Until Israel imposed the overall siege on Gaza in March, handover operations were supervised by the United Nations, which brought aid to people in multiple locations around the coastal pocket.

Under the new system led by GHF, Razan’s individual families will travel – in many cases on foot – to receive meals trapped from the distribution centers guaranteed by American private security and Israeli security contractors. The axes will be primarily in southern Gaza.

Israeli officials say the new approach is designed to prevent transfer to Hamas. But United Nations officials say they did not see the transformation of aid on a large scale, and they refused to participate in this plan, and condemn it as a “fig paper” of the forced displacement of the local population and violating human principles.

Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday, Jeans Lrek, a United Nations ARM OCHA spokesman, said the GHF plan was “distraction from what was actually required” and called for the reopening of all crossings in Gaza to connect aid.

Israeli military officials and other Western officials also criticized the plan in particular as insufficient to treat the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the war -torn pocket.

The credibility of the new approach was undermined on Monday, When GHF CEO Jake Wood resignedSaying, “It is clear that this plan cannot be implemented with the strict adherence to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, neutrality and independence.”

On Monday night, she said she appointed John Akry as a temporary substitute.